Tag Archives: toddlers
Walking in the Rain
[more on kindergarten kissing at the end] One of my friends has walked and/or run a minimum of two miles (and typically more like five) every single day for over 200 days. In the process she has inspired a significant number of women to get outside, get to the gym, and just plain get to …
Damn that Peter Parker
Dear Two-Year-Old, You were so mad because I wouldn’t let you wear your pajamas to school today. Those are your “night night” shorts, I explained. Try these baseball shorts instead. No! Not these baseball shorts! You grabbed your pjs and ran away. Cursing silently, I drank deeply (coffee – it’s 8 am). I told him …
Regress, re-program, repent
My son’s teacher emailed me this morning to ask if there was anything unusual going on at home because today he engaged in some behavior that was way, way, way over and done with, so far away in the past when he was a power-struggling three-year-old, and now he’s almost five, and growing in leaps and bounds…. …
Meltdown
In the words of a blog-writing physician, “toddlerhood is far more exhausting than internships or residency”. I’m not a doctor, but I’ve observed two close friends survive and thrive the challenges of medical school, residency, and enter and establish new practices while growing and parenting two children under five. I’ve nodded in sympathy at their 30-hour shifts …
