Aug 15, 2015 |
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...
Aug 8, 2015 |
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...
Aug 1, 2015 |
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...
Jul 25, 2015 |
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...