Category: Parenting
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Happy Mother’s Day
To every son and daughter’s mother, a happy Mother’s Day. You’ve made your children what they are, whether or not you’ve intended to. To Naomi – on behalf of Kai and myself, thank you for being everything he needs. To Naomi’s Mom, thank you for being family. And I remember my mother today, for making…
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Please Take Dengue Seriously
Read this first, then come back to this post. Yes, you can die from dengue. But mostly, people don’t exhibit serious symptoms, and are often not ill enough to be hospitalized. It’s been the same with this outbreak, and I’ve found that as a result, people are being a bit blase about the current epidemic…
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Explaining Boston To A Four Year Old
Yesterday morning on waking up, I checked my phone for messages, and read about the Boston Marathon bombing. As Naomi and I headed to our kitchen for breakfast with Kai, I decided to turn on the television for updates. Kai started to ask what we were watching on tv. As has been our policy, we…
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That’s Not Work, Papa!
During chat time a couple of days ago, Kai asked about my day, so I told him about rehearsals and how Uncle Kumar had to learn the dance steps Uncle George made up to the songs we were going to play for the show. He furrowed his brow and declared very seriously, “that’s not work…