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Entries for November, 2006

Carnival of Family Life - Now with prizes

Just a reminder to get your entries in for this weeks Carnival of Family Life. There are a pretty good handful already, but keep them coming.
I also have been thinking about the prize one lucky entrant used to get. I wanted to find a way to use a prize to help encourage conversations […]

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Sounds at the dinner table

My kids are cute. And they say funny things.
Last night, Geetle, how should I say this, farted at the dinner table.
We looked around and jokingly said, “What was that? Is there a duck in the house?”
That’s an old joke that she used to think was pretty funny. Last night she took it […]

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Handling the death of a hamster

A couple months back we bought a hamster. There was much rejoicing.
Hamsters seem to have curious lifespans averaging somewhere between 30 seconds and 4 years. Poor little Winnie decided to check out after a little more than tow months.
We got home from our big Thanksgiving weekend at 11pm on Saturday. I went […]

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Big Carnival of Family Life News

Kailani, the former host of the Carnival of Family Life, needed to find a new owner for the carnival and I happened to be in the right place at the right time. So, now the Carnival of Family Life is my baby to nurture.
I do not have any plans to change the carnival in […]

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Preventing your kids from doing what they really want to do

I sat Pookie on the toilet tonight before bed and used the new, fancy, potty training technique that we have been using to keep him on the toilet for at least 60 seconds.
After that, he climbed in the tub and almost immediately preceeded to pee. Pretty typical.
Then after washing him, I gave him the […]

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