Kids are sticky.  I've heard that children rank 9.3 out of 10 on the stickiness scale 89% of the time (although I'm not sure if that's true, because I also heard that 83.5% of statistics are made up).  Parents have an understanding of stickiness that those without...

  When I was around 6 years old my mom brought home some Fig Newtons.  Being the responsible child I was, I waited until no one was looking before grabbing the package and hiding under the kitchen table.  In those days Fig Newtons didn't come with two separate...

Sometimes when I walk into my kids’ rooms I find them playing with things tied to the ceiling fans – toys, paper mobiles, or even large amounts of yarn hanging down, spinning in circles.  Think: small sheep flying around the room at the speed of a cheetah chasing a...

Never mix bike pumps and gasoline.  I learned that lesson as a kid.  One fine summer day a friend and I were innocently playing with my dad's bicycle pump, and somehow a stick got stuck in the end that the air comes out and it got dipped in gasoline (I don't know...