Be A Good Dad

There’s a short nice post over at Weary Parent about actually interacting with your children to help create their best memories. Go read it.
Very good advice that we should be reminded about constantly. It is very easy to let TV, electronic toys, video games, and computers take over a lot of the entertainment [...]

I spent a few years in an apartment in Iowa between Kindergarten and 2nd grade. The way the apartments in the neighborhood lined up left us with a yard about 2 apartments wides and 3 long. There were a lcouple patches patches of trees and a couple 3 feet steep hills between apartments. [...]

About a year and a half ago we received or bought the Talking Hands DVD. Pookie still hadn’t started talking beyond babbling and repeating catch phrases from books and videos. He almost immediately fell in love with this video.
Talking Hands is a step above most of the Baby Einstein videos and below Elmo [...]

The other day my wife and I were trying to have a conversation in the kitchen (not at a meal time). Geetle kept trying to butt in to the conversation and wouldn’t give up. She came up with new topics every couple of minutes. Since R and I were talking about what [...]

My name is Mike Miller. I have two kids, twins. One boy and one girl. They are 3 1/2 years old. We went through IVF to help with getting pregnant. Someday I’ll explain more about that. It’s a mouthful.
For future reference, Geetle is our daughter.  That’s not her real [...]