Tag Archives: Parenting

Halloween 2010

It would be unthinkable in most of the world’s countries for families to venture to strange houses at night. It would be more unthinkable for the children of those families to approach unfamiliar homes, and to ask for – and receive – goodies.

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A Small Moment In Childhood

Early one midsummer morning, when my son, Mark, was three years old I found him sleeping on the carpet outside his room.  I didn’t want to wake him and put him back to bed because the result might have been a protest that would have woken up the whole house: my wife, his brother and [...]

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Special Delivery

I ordered a $500 dresser from Babies R Us in Staten Island, New York for our newborn baby, Max.

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On Kids

My 8-year-old son, Alexander, went on his first overnight camping trip the other day. It was a start-of-school thing, for team-building. When he came home he said he had a great time, but otherwise didn’t want to talk about it.

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