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OK, let’s get down to brass tacks here everyone. Some things just never change and this particular issue is no different.  You CANNOT expect your little people to keep there rooms picked up if your room looks like a set for the show Clean House (prior to the clean part).   You may get lucky a time [...]
Category Archives: Advice on raising kids
[LUDWIG@HOME] My Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
August 11, 2009 – 6:36 pm
The word “furlough” snuck into our vernacular recently. It’s commonly used to describe an unpaid day off of work. These pro bono vacations have become mandates in both the public and private sectors as a way to balance budgets during a recession. The Wife took one of her “furlough days” last week. It could be [...]
Parenting Advice: Apologising To Your Kids
August 10, 2009 – 9:41 pm
As a single parent of three children, I am bound to have communication challenges and disagreements with family members. I have two teenagers and a soon to be 10-year old, and when arguments have ensued, I have made my share of mistakes. As a father, I never want my children to be angry with me; [...]
Green At School: It’s More Than a Color
August 10, 2009 – 8:16 pm
Sustainability has been quite the rage the last couple years, especially in my home town of Portland, OR. It amazes me that people’s appetites seem insatiable for new ways to be more sustainable at work, home, school, and while playing. While much of this noise strikes me as marketing buzz (I’m a greenwasher for sure), [...]
Upromise: Free Money for College
August 6, 2009 – 6:38 pm
Upromise is a very easy way to save money for college. There are several ways in which you can save money, and the great thing is that, you don’t even have to think about it. Once you sign up and register your credit cards (don’t worry it’s safe), you just go about your normal spending [...]
[A DAD'S POINT-OF-VIEW] Don’t Take It Personally
August 5, 2009 – 11:00 pm
I know my column is from my personal perspective, and often about my personal life. Yet I feel this topic is more confessional than many others and affects me too often. I take things too personally. Having this deficiency is truly toxic when you are raising kids or beginning a new marriage, both of which [...]
When He Asks, Give the Boy a Poodle
August 4, 2009 – 7:47 pm
“Frogs and snails and puppy-dogs’ tails — that’s what little boys are made of.” – Early nineteenth century nursery rhyme There comes a time in just about every dad’s life when his son will ask him for a pet. And, since dog is man’s best friend, it would seem cruel to deny even the littlest [...]
Old Dog, New Tricks
August 4, 2009 – 6:08 pm
As dads, busy with family and career, we often don’t leave time for ourselves. And if we do, it’s frequently just enough time to catch a football game or grab a beer. That’s nice, but it hardly helps us be all we can be. And it’s not intentional; it’s just that life fills our time [...]
[HUSBAND@HOME] Blue 22, Red 36, hut, hut!
August 3, 2009 – 6:02 pm
When I was sitting in Chick-Fil-A with a girlfriend and her little boy, along with my two little princesses, it became painfully obvious to me that they had been spending way too much time with their Daddy (or too little time with Mommy) when Abigail let one rip on the plastic booth below us. As [...]
[A DAD'S POINT-OF-VIEW] Will the Kids Ever Leave?
August 3, 2009 – 6:18 am
What an interesting contemporary question: will our kids ever leave? I left home at sixteen to go away to college and never returned, except for visits. I stayed close to my parents, and they did help me financially through college, though I worked every summer to supplement my education expenses and pay for my own [...]