Funny Parenting Stories

Funny Parenting Stories

Neanderthal: (driving along) “You-make-me-feel—so-emotional…” Homo sapiens sapiens: (Vocally rolling eyes) “Dad, you’re singing.” Neanderthal: “Huh? Singing? Doh, me no sing.” Homo sapiens sapiens: “I’m trying to hear my CD.” Neanderthal: (Grabbing CD box from daughter, who has been studying liner notes with the intensity of a biblical scholar with a new Dead Sea scroll fragment) [...]

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Was working on the children’s Halloween party and I told Alpha as a joke, “if I ever get fired, I could always get a job designing S&M chambers.” I was decorating our cellar for Beta’s Halloween party. Beta is our oldest daughter. She’s now 13. “What’s an S&M chamber?” asked Beta, with a look on [...]

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At the dinner table yesterday, it struck me how grown-up Beta suddenly looks. She’ll be 13 in the summer, and is getting tall and slender, with a woman looking out of her eyes at times, like a ghost of the future. She is beautiful. She plays harp so well it makes people cry. She got [...]

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Gamma outsmarted the rest of us again. We were all at home, in our home office, standing around the PC looking at the website of a local reality show and, big mistake, ignoring Gamma. · · · She is a quick learner, and knows to seize an opportunity when it presents itself. After a couple [...]

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Sploochie and The Big Ragoo At some point, little kids begin to recognize that Mommy and Daddy have more than one name. That point for C actually came several months ago — if you asked her what Daddy’s name was, she would readily reply “Brian” — but sometime about a couple of weeks ago it [...]

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