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| Unique Visitors: 665 |
| Total Unique Visitors: 7482819 |
| Visitors Out: 2925 |
| Total Visitors Out: 11862 |
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| Dojo With Mojo – The Day Our Pet Dojo Took A Walk On The Wild Side |
| 2011-07-25 12:50:43 |
Summary: No matter how bizarre and unlikely, you should take your child seriously when they insist the “impossible” is possible. This story happens during our very recent and very long wet spring. In you live in the bay area our spring was unusually wet. It seemed to rain at least once per week. Besides annoying it [...]...
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| Uno for Dose – Playing Cards With My Daughter |
| 2011-07-23 20:49:22 |
So my daughter and I have been playing Uno in the evenings. It’s a fun, easy game to wind down the day with, and with two people it goes rather brisk. Skip cards now skips the next hand directly back to yourself. Reverse does the same thing. To make it less painful we allow you [...]...
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| These Boots Were Made For Walking – A Child’s First 97 Steps |
| 2011-07-23 16:52:29 |
Summary: A Toddlers Transcendent Stair Climbing Experience leads to Bedtime Nirvana My daughter’s always been a powerhouse of gross motor skills. The very first time she picked up a spoon she held it like an adult. Same with a pencil. No gorilla grips for her. So when she started walking I was not that surprised [...]...
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| Tomboys, Gender Training, and The Trouble With Stereotypes |
| 2011-07-17 20:44:35 |
I’m doing some gardening when my daughter walks up. “Am I a tomboy?” “Well some may consider you a tomboy because you’re strong and athletic and like things like dinosaurs, skulls, and boys underwear and swim trunks. But I don’t like the term tomboy because it implies that a girl should only behave a certain [...]...
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| Are You Hot Mamma? Love and Life According to Foreigner’s Hot Blooded |
| 2011-07-17 20:25:06 |
Summary: Tens seconds of classic rock leads to ten minutes of relationship talk. I’m on the way to the boardwalk with my daughter and her good friend when I click on the classic rock station to clear my head. Wouldn’t you know it, it’s old favorite by Foreigner. But you’ve got to give me a [...]...
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| The Little Arcade Game That Could, and Did, But Shouldn’t Have |
| 2011-01-06 12:35:03 |
Summary. The sociopolitical implications of miniature golf and a broken arcade game redistributes the wealth. It’s two weeks before the new year and we’re burning through our coupon book for the Santa Cruz beach boardwalk. You see, every year we get a year pass, and with that pass comes a coupon book. Unfortunately most of [...]...
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| Th’s Versus F’s – A Child Learns Her “TH” Sounds |
| 2011-01-05 23:36:11 |
My daughter has a bit of a problem hitting her “thuuu” sounds. Many times they come out as an “fuuu” sound. Now this is really common and it’s not a speech problem because she can hit the “thuuu” if she concentrates. Me, my partner and my daughter are in the car on the way to [...]...
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| Boys Gone Wild – It Takes a Village at the Family Fun Center |
| 2010-12-22 20:00:55 |
Summary – Not all boys are destructive, but nearly every destructive person is a boy. That’s not a value judgment it’s just a reality. If you want to see why the world is the way it is just go hang out a family entertainment center and watch the action. In San Jose there’s a killer [...]...
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| Let’s Talk About Death. Or Not. |
| 2010-12-22 17:11:56 |
Summary: Kids can handle the truth. They can handle death. It’s adults than need happy stories to ease their discomfort. When it comes to the big “D” parents just fall apart. They use euphemisms and abstractions when explaining it to their children. To complicate matters, most parents believe in some kind of life after death. [...]...
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