How Parents Understand Toddler Speak

I used to hear little kids babble unintelligible things and be astounded when their moms understood them. Kid: Bleah buh dinka deh Kid’s mom: He wants some milk. Me: ! I thought it was some kind of acquired parenting superpower. Maybe maternal hormones convert the part of our brains that keeps up with current music into magical […]

Why Kids Think Adults Are Ridiculous

Before I had kids, I never used to understand why parents got so frustrated by kids asking so many questions. Curiosity is good, right? You should be encouraging it and you don’t know the answer yourself, then what a great opportunity to introduce dictionaries or Google! Because everything about raising kids seems so obvious until you find […]

Bridget The Viking Wages a War on Pants

As I’ve mentioned before, my two-year-old daughter Bridget is a baby Viking: a freakishly-strong blonde who lives to dance, eat, and occasionally conquer all rules of civilized Christian society by violently head-butting them with her berserker rage. And tonight, she waged a war on the meaning of pants. Everything had been going so well. Earlier, she’d finally asked […]