by Tobin Walsh
***If you want to impress your kids (and/or embarrass your teens with your nerdiness), please continue*** Why do we do what we do for our kids on Easter Sunday? I’m talking about the non-religious stuff that parents all do because Continue reading Dork Dad Diary: Secular Easter Traditions Explained
Three of my five kids know the deal. In fact, my oldest children each hand-select many of their own gifts. For my two littlest, though, the majesty of the holiday season abounds. They each make wish lists and put them Continue reading Have the non-believing kids hide the (#$%$#%$#) Elf
***Advanced access was provided to the movie, but all opinions are my own.*** When someone tells me that a new Christmas movie is an “instant classic”, I cringe. After all, it takes A LOT to unseat my holiday favorites. However, Continue reading New Holiday Movie Review : “8-Bit Christmas” starring Neil Patrick Harris
My informal count of Easter Sunday church attendance was around fifty people. Of those attendees, at least 60% appeared over 70 years-old. Notably, my oldest son was one of two black people taking part in the service. I expected the Continue reading Does Church have a future with our kids?
As the the presents under the tree become the dust collectors in our children’s closets, I try to be a good sport. I wouldn’t make mention of the Goodwill trips of boxes brimming of old holiday gifts. I rarely make Continue reading LOL Dolls: a profiteer’s dream, a parent’s nightmare
I must admit that I am a bit of a Halloween dud. Our home is not decorated with ghouls, vampires, smoke machines or spiders. The cul-de-sac we live on does not even warrant the purchase of a single bag of Continue reading Five Trick-or-Treating Rules from a Halloween Hater
Our pediatric dentist does something that I love after Halloween. Every year her office provides a candy exit strategy for parents, like me, who are up to our eyeballs in the miniature candy bars our children have collected from our Continue reading The “Switch Witch” Cannot Have Our Halloween Candy
On Mother’s Day it’s likely that I’ll, again, disappoint my wife. I’m a good dad, but a realist and have developed an affinity for bad gift-giving of late. Although I realize that I could never buy anything that would adequately Continue reading What I Hear When You Say You Want Nothing for Mother’s Day
“Dad, I can’t give that one to him!” My 7 year-old daughter’s face wrinkled in disgust as if I’d suggested something awful. My out-stretched hand held a flimsy, valentine with two puppies pictured on the front. “Why not?” I asked Continue reading She’s My Valentine, For Now
I won’t let my kids file Martin Luther King, Jr. Day into the category of non-gift-giving holidays that serve only to close school for the day. No matter the age, I’ll tell my children that the holiday is bigger – Continue reading Lessons Martin Luther King Expects My Kids To Learn