Category: Raising Kids
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Traveling With Kids: 3 Easy Ways to Save Money On Food
“The average cost to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner at a U.S. restaurant rose to $104.26 per person per day. For a family of four, that scales to $417.04 per day, though some cities are cheaper than others.”
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Reflections On Our 2,500+ Mile Road Trip to Highland Dance National Championships 2024
It’s been about a week since we got back from our road trip to Highland dance national championships in Boston. I had fully intended to keep up with blog posts during our trip, but turns out I had my hands pretty full. I’ll be honest, with the exception of one post I started on the…
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Rethinking “Midlife Crisis” as a 40-Year-Old Dad
But I would argue that the man who seeks to be better, more heroic, as he realizes that his time is limited, his strength is finite, and his children need to have a father who strives to be his best self is going through a crisis in the best sense of the word.
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The Famous Last Words Series, Part 2: “I’ll Never Be a Dance Mom”
The Famous Last Words Series is our tribute to the unpredictability of parenthood. In this series, we will discuss things we said a long time ago (or maybe just a few weeks or even days ago) that have been proven wrong, dreadfully wrong, since saying them. We share these stories in order to grow in…
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5 Reflections On Teaching Kids to Fish
Here’s a common pattern I have observed: parents take their kids to the fishing store and buy them a Mickey Mouse rod with a push-button reel and a tackle box with a bunch of cheap tackle. The subsequent fishing trip is a story of mounting frustration as dad spends the whole time untangling that useless…
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The Famous Last Words Series, Part 1: “We’ll Just Homeschool for a Semester”
The Famous Last Words Series is our tribute to the unpredictability of parenthood. In this series, we will discuss things we said a long time ago (or maybe just a few weeks, days, or hours ago) that have been proven wrong, dreadfully wrong, since saying them. We share these stories in order to grow in…
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Stay Dangerous
“Stay safe!” my kids said in unison as I headed out the door one morning to work. They may have said this to me before and my mind had just glided over the common farewell, but today it caught me.
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