Funny Parenting Stories

Funny Parenting Stories

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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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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Is there any ballet more loved around Christmas time than the Nutcracker Suite by Tchaikovsky? Where I live (Austria), if you are a good parent you take your kid to see it at least once. Expose them to the magic of classical music and dance, the charming story of the Nutcracker. It is the traditional [...]

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