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Because you’re only one once…

March 3, 2009

Our daughter turned one year old today, and took to her gift, a wooden rocking horse, as though she’s been riding for decades.

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Lions and Tigers and Bears…

February 21, 2009

Image by Jeff-b-f via Flickr

One clear challenge with parenting is the instinct to protect when exposure to an experience could aid the development process for the child.  Or to protect when it just isn’t needed.  Behind this I sense some level of projected neurosis, but lets remain on the level of how it might play [...]

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Getting to the Essentials

January 15, 2009

Image by ariel_bh via Flickr

I’m riffing off what my friend Jeb posted:  On the road to nowhere.  It’s a bleak picture painted of the world’s current situation, and it seems to be rapidly gaining in plausibility.  Likewise our options facing these problems as individuals, well, that’s just getting more demoralizing.  There comes a point where [...]

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A One Trick Pony

January 15, 2009

I’ve been traveling for five days and greeted my almost seven year old son at the breakfast table this morning with stories of the desert; the wild horse I could hear but not see, the Indian petroglyphs, the hundreds of acres of fire scarred cactus “…and oh yeah…I got you something. Something you can put [...]

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Fire in the Hole…

January 4, 2009

My son Ben inherited a family heirloom this Christmas, the toboggan that my grandfather gave to our family.  Now over forty years old, the toboggan still provides all the thrills I remember as a child…enjoy the ride.

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Why technology doesn’t ruin the adventure…

December 30, 2008

Image via Wikipedia

A feature in Ranger Rick magazine on geocaching captured my son’s imagination.  His wish for a GPS (thanks @rargiros) came true this Christmas, and since the temperatures climbed over forty degrees yesterday, we headed off on our first satellite guided adventure.
Crystal Lake is part of the NY State Forest Preserve about two and [...]

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The Fix Is In

December 2, 2008

“If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.” ~Carl Jung
add to that:
“Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.” [...]

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Bug Vacuum?

November 19, 2008

The Sand Box
So the school hosted a book fair this week and my son came home with a bug vacuum.  At first I was conflicted and the same held true for my wife.  But it provided a moment for us to let go of the control so that even at six and a half years [...]

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All Hallow’s Eve

October 31, 2008

The Sand Box

In bringing our children up, I resist the Disney-fication of myth, especially as it relates to the holidays.  Halloween seems the most challenging.  How do we find right balance?  The real content of the feast, the specter of death, is something our culture purposefully avoids?  All Hallow’s Eve, the night before the double [...]

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Dancing around the Flag

October 13, 2008

The Sand Box

It would be quite a challenge to explain the ambivalence I fell these days toward the Red, White and Blue to my six year old son.  I know to do so would be flat out wrong.  Daily with his class mates he recites the pledge as I too did throughout my schooling.  He [...]

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