Since the wife and I love the simple competitive games on the Wii (i.e. Wii Sports), we’re looking forward to the upcoming release titled Wii Music. Yes, it looks to be like a dumbed down version of Rock Band but for parents like me who don’t ...

It's time again for a little weekend reading over at my Parents.com blog. This week, I wrote about:An exquisite torture every mom knows all too well.I'm guessing every single one of you knows (and loathes) a man like this one.And CRISIS! CRISIS! ...

...wrongheaded? They have an entire webpage, entitled, “Babies sleep safest alone,” that pretty much misleads parents, in my opinion. While the page [...]...

This is our DIL with her parents at their graduation from Seminario Wesleyano de Venezuela (Wesleyan Seminary of Venezuela) in August. It was an historic day for the seminary and for the first graduates. You can tell from their smiles that these are thr...

My girlfriend started collecting snow globes while she was in college. She bought the first one during her semester abroad in Ireland. The semester, as she explained to her parents, was to broaden her mind in different genres of art, her major. I have yet...

Just because I haven't posted any car pictures lately, here's a national guard convoy heading south on I-55 that we passed on the way home. Drove home yesterday, mostly uneventful, picked up Clay's car at my dad's parents house and fixe...

Ah!  I survived another week!  I don't know about other parents, but I consider this an accomplishment.  Jake started preschool this week and we made it through with, what I consider, flying colors.  I have made it through another post surgery wee...

I'm coming up fast on my 22nd anniversary with diabetes, and one of the things I've had as part of my management arsenal is Kitty.  Kitty was the stuffed animal cat that my parents bought for me before I went...

I'm coming up fast on my 22nd anniversary with diabetes, and one of the things I've had as part of my management arsenal is Kitty.  Kitty was the stuffed animal cat that my parents bought for me before I went...

...en Matthews morally has to deal with is the part she played in the problem. Surely she is not suggesting that she is blameless?Parents have a duty of care to their offspring and that includes involving them in schemes and plans that take advantage of thei...

...union holiday is that the kids get their own company and we adults can truly enjoy ourselves too. I believe our cousin’s parents (who [...]...

...But what is the value of access to a failing school? We need to shake up failed school bureaucracies with competition, empower parents with choice, remove barriers to qualified instructors, [...]...

Real Love - How to date When You still Live With Your Parents Are you an adult who's living with Mom and Dad again? That doesn't mean you can't have a social life. Here are the rules to this new... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my...

So it turns out Gustav was no Katrina, thank God. Until our abrupt departure, we had a nice time with my parents and my little sister's family. My sister has a brand-new baby girl. Here is Bella making her cry. ********************* The funny thi...

We have been caught out as bad parents - BIG TIME. Last night after the kidlets where in bed Wife and I decided to treat ourselves to some ice cream. After we had eaten all our yummy ice cream and were settled in watching our stories on the TV we could he...

...s will. We had no idea what Katrina had wrought until a few days after she was gone. The video below is of us at Maguire's parents' house, blissfully ignorant of how our......

...s a rare occasion when an incredible idea is solely created by one person. Yet, it can be hard to let go of our ideas. Just as parents with children going [...]...

...me! " To everyone else, "Who wants to hear about my summer?!"Things have been really good!I spent 2 weeks at my parents condo.... yeah, the deck walks out onto the beach.The view from my window :)I went with family which was a lot of fun. I...

My dad's parents still live in the region where they grew up: "wild, wonderful" West Virginia. They've lived in several parts of the state, besides spending a good portion of their lives traveling elsewhere (mostly by American-made car t...

My parents took me and my sister Louisiana to the carnival. We only stayed a little bit but I got to ride 3 big boy rides. They were so much fun but kinda scary. I even took my sister on the horses. She loved it!

...as well as an Illinois Hands & Voices board member.  She’s a mom of five kids, with lots of experience in assisting parents of deaf and [...]...

The dreaded summer reading list - Opinion - USATODAY.com: "Many high schools students — and their parents — are wringing theirhands these days over that yet-to-be-finished required reading. Butperhaps these lists are, well, boring. We English tea...

Or more accurately: Wii! Zellers got a shipment of Wiis and they were on sale today. For Christmas my parents gave us some “mad money” to get whatever we wanted, so long as it was frivolous. I think a Wii falls into that category. So I truck...

This is a heartbreaking story about a couple trying to find their son and parents after the earthquake in Sichuan Province. So many similar stories are still happening there. My heart is with the people in my home country....

I have just come across this video, and I laughed. Out loud. And I realized that so many of us are really still acting like a bunch of kids running around the playground carrying out power struggles with our friends,...

– my attempt at a short story School was not exactly a fun place. Though he still ressisted his parents’ efforts to drag him to school occasionally, little Buddha had come to the conclusion that the tiring ritual was unavoidable. At least un...

YouTube Direktvideo link What a cool video by the Intel Museum team. Since joiningn Intel in 2000, the museum has been one of my favorite places to take visitors and conduct video interviews at Intel Headquarters in Santa Clara. The museum attracts som...