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A Night Away From Kids

After our first kid was born, it took us quite a while before my wife and I both spent a night away from [...]

My wife and I dated twice. I broke things off the first time around, after we had dated for about a week. I [...]

It’s pretty easy to put a lot of pressure on yourself as a parent. Is my kid eating the right food? Is she [...]

Most guys don’t give a lot of thought to breastfeeding until they become fathers. And even then, for most, myself included, the initial [...]

Kids have big ears. And not cover-of-Mad-magazine big ears (though sometimes that too). But they often pay a lot more attention to their [...]

The fairly-standard flight from Honolulu to LA departs at about 8:30 pm, and arrives the next morning at about 5:30 am. One of [...]

I grew up on about 40 acres of woods and swamp. I spent a lot of time outside as a kid, though I [...]

Wearing a baby in a baby carrier is one of those ideas that’s about as old as parents caring for babies. If a [...]

The old adage is that nobody is on their deathbed wishing they would have spent more time at work. By this point I’ve [...]

Belle was three years old the first time I took her backcountry skiing. Backcountry skiing with a toddler is a little different than, [...]