I cam across this post on a site called “Modern Non-Aligned Fatherhood”: Things to Consider Before Becoming a Stepdad. The site has all the hallmarks of something that seemed like a good idea at the time but really wasn’t; there’s only three posts, all from last May. Which is a shame, because the posts are […]

Here’s an idea I whipped up when we took a family vacation in August. We were in Utah, doing some hiking and visiting ghost towns and the like, and I was worried about the kids wandering off. The best thing would be an information card tucked into each one’s pockets, but getting thm […]

One of the benefits of being a teacher is that every so often you come across great discounts for educators. This weekend (and up until Tuesday) Borders offered an educator’s discount of 25% off all books, CDs, and DVDs. (I don’t know if that’s nation-wide or just in my area.) On Friday night they […]

This is brilliant: a simple mnemonic device for kids to learn how to set a table correctly. FORK and LEFT both have four letters; KNIFE, SPOON, and RIGHT all have five. So the fork goes on the left, the knife and spoon on the right. What’s more, they’re in alphabetical order: (F)ork, (K)nife, […]

If you haven’t already, you must subscribe to the TWiT podcast Jumping Monkeys. Hosted by Leo Laporte (of TechTV fame, more recently the proprietor of the TWiT network of tech podcasts) and Megan Morrone (also of TechTV) discuss the joys and perils of parenting in the Internet era. They discuss current news stories, interview prominent […]

The Simple Dollar is a personal finance blog, but every Sunday they offer long, in-depth reviews of personal development books. This week, they reviewed The Read-Aloud Handbook, a book about (as you can probably guess) reading loud to your children. It looks like a fantastic book. Listen:
First, and this is the big one, […]

At the end of last year, I became a step-dad. I’m the kind of person that has an intense curiosity about anything new I do. Being a modern, web-savvy kind of guy (read: “geek”) I set out to do some reading up on stepdadding on the Web. Alas, there’s not much out there. […]