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824. Inflated pride
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825. New conversations
Need your help with this one. So, let’s say that your child wasn’t being bullied. They were the bully.
Whether it is a cry for help or a failure to communicate, how do you stop the behavior (so other kids don’t fear the park, school, et cetera)? And I am not talking about your 18 year old, Cobra Kai, body-bag-putting-into Johnny Lawrence, semi sociopath type … I am talking about a generally sweet 3, 6, or 9 year old.I know a few people that are dealing with this with their kids, so I am asking for them and for others: what should you do?
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826. Where the Wild Things Are.
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Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.
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People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and hold a rock-throwing contest - people understand that.
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828. Exercise comes more naturally
We just did more than 40 laps around the slide at the nearby play area. 40 laps in little circles, just running, chasing, and throwing rocks. I measured it. 10 laps = 1/4 of a mile. That doesn’t count the run there, back, and all other activities.
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829. Dinosaurs are awesome.
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830. Playing is one of my requirements of being a good husband and father.
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Now that I’ll have a baby I got the perfect excuse to go to Disneyland every single year (no need to justify it).
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831. He just discovered trampolines.
Unfortunately, I’m not there. I am in Baltimore eating crab soup and steamed shrimp at McCormick & Schmick’s.
Now, when I get home, we’ll have to get one so I can teach him all my skills.
Of course, the trampoline was the leading cause of concussions in my family growing up.
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My 2 1/2 year-old kid is obsessed with Superman. He’s walking around humming the theme song, going ‘Ta-ta-ta!’ every time he removes his pajamas and changing to day clothes, and generally running around yelling ‘I am Superman!’ all day long. My wife, supporting his obsession, had sewn him a red cape (which I am SO envious of) and every day, after the ceremonious brushing of the teeth (‘Just like Superman does..’) my son puts on the cape and ‘flies’ to daycare.
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832. Superman’s Cape.
My mother made me a cape when I was little. I loved it. She now makes capes for her grandchildren. Still love it.
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My observations of a toddler. I have cute one. And perhaps the observations of a few others—that is to say, the observations and the observing of others. We'll see if that works out.
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