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My son’s favorite toy is an 8 foot long flexible pencil he calls his ‘hooker.’ He uses it to hook things, and at 3 years old, such a term just makes sense to him. But I just about lost it the other day when he was dressed in his dragon costume and started looking for [...]

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We’re waiting for the plumber right now. It seems that the house we live in, built in the ’60s has iron pipes. The one going to the sewer has rusted shut and must be replaced. Fortunately, this only seems to be impacting the kitchen, so we can live pretty normally. But my 3 year old [...]

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For her 6th birthday, my dad sent my daughter a birthday card with dollar bills inside. Being a kid, she just tore the envelope open, and dollar bills went flying everywhere. Now, she wasn’t all that impressed by the fact that she got money. No, she was impressed by who was on the dollar bills. [...]

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My son has been resisting potty training for a long time. But last week he finally decided to start it in earnest. It all started as I changed his diaper before putting him down for a nap. He’d been playing Superman all day, blankie cape flowing behind him. He started to throw a tantrum as [...]

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I was walking my daughter to school the other day, and she suddenly announced that she was going to start a church when she grew up. I was of course curious why. “So that people have to give me money on Sunday,” she said, very seriously. It didn’t take much discussion to find out that [...]

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contributed by Kara My daughter really wanted some candy, but it was her bedtime so I told her no. She begged and begged and begged. Finally my husband offered a deal. She could have a piece of candy tonight, and have no more the rest of the week, or she could have candy once a [...]

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