Sometimes the best activities that parents can do with their kids are the things parents also enjoy doing on
their own. No, I’m not talking about the twisted Moms and Dads who force their kids to see movies they shouldn’t, just because the parents want to watch and won’t get a babysitter—or the parents
who drag their kids to smoky bar/restaurants and make them sit at a table and color while they get drunk…I’m talking about letting your kids tag along …
Month: June 2010
Where There’s A Will, There’s A Grill
While women have made great strides in the boardroom and in many other previously “male-only domains” over the past 50 years,
there’s at least one where it seems they haven’t made much progress at all: the grill. If we are to believe what we see and read, women do not grill. Grills and grilling aprons are
not part of Mother’s Day ads. I had to page through 29 listings at amazon.com before I found a grilling cookbook with a woman …
A Ph.D. in Playground: Should young kids have “graduation” ceremonies?
In this month of graduations, I’ve been thinking about how, sadly, wearing a cap and gown doesn’t mean as much
as it used to. If I recall, it used to be reserved exclusively for high school and college graduations—something you looked forward to for many years, because those are graduations that deserve
Pomp and Circumstance, cap and gown, and celebrations of the highest order. It meant you’d come a long way over many years and studied hard (hopefully) to get where …