My childhood was filled with experiences that shaped my understanding of the world. As we traveled, the canvas of my life was stretched wider and more broadly. It’s hard to convince someone they should see more of the world when they’re comfortable where they are. More often than not, we’re just trying to overcome our […]
“Why’re you sticking!!!” Son: “What???” “I was talking to the pan.” Son: “But… but the pan is not alive.” ““Elizabeth & Our 6yo It’s funny that he was calling her out for talking to her cooking equipment, because an hour earlier was having an energetic discussion with a stick. They […]
Being on the internet as much as I do makes it easy to get cynical about life. You see enough weird or inappropriate or petty stuff, and it makes you question humanity. Or at least its goodness. My father used to say the internet was a mile wide and an inch deep. But that was […]
Teaming up with Clorox, we have some nostalgic parental perspective to drop on you. The cycle of outdating seems like it downed a fistful of steroids with a gallon of coffee, everything is changing and progressing so fast now. However fast or slow times change, a universal truth for any generation is: there will […]
The weekend before we had watched Star Wars: A New Hope together for his first time. I videoed it, capturing his excitement and intense curiosity, to the tune of 278 questions during the movie (video here). When I published it online, it went nuts, millions of views of my little padawan’s first adorable step on […]
A while ago I created a nightmare-fuel image of what a mouse would look like if there were a species that looked like our favorite jamboree-leading rodent, Mickey Mouse. After everyone was done cringing and dry heaving, I put the question to our readers of which iconic cartoon animal I should do next. The options […]
We’ve all experienced dad jokes. Whether from our own dads, or a dad joke ricochet from someone else. Some are worse than others. But dad jokes can be the love language of parenting. This dad joke, however, is the best of its kind. And possibly for all time. I have so many questions. Is this […]
It’s our job to care for the new mini humans we bring into this world. Part of that job is showing them the ropes of life, whilst trying to keep them from tripping and getting tangled in every single one while we were looking for an expiration date for just one single solitary second. Ehem! […]
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“I have a high tolerance for pain, but a very low tolerance for discomfort.” ““Elizabeth Hang on. What? Not sure how her statement makes perfect sense to me, but it kinda does. Science, and people who push large melon-sized things out of their bodies, have long claimed that women tend to have a higher […]
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