Thanks to an unexpected turn of events this morning, I am suffering from what I like to call PTSD, also known as Post Tantrum Stress Disorder.
The tantrum was a doozie, a 30-minute episode that started out of nothing (she didn’t want to brush her teeth) and ended only after I gave L a long while [...]

It’s as if The New York Times has been overrun with new parents these days.
Last week, the paper ran that article about the impacts of cone-scan technology among pediatric dentists (I blogged about it earlier this week). Since then, the Gray Lady has published two other informative-yet-disturbing articles pertaining to the development of our children.
The [...]

How do you know you’re a grizzled work-at-home veteran? When you pull a stunt like the one I pulled today here at home.
I was upstairs. L and the nanny were downstairs. I had to run out to drop off a UPS envelope at the local UPS Store. But since L gets upset when she realizes [...]

Thank goodness there’s a limit to what L can understand these days (though we still think she’s pretty darn smart). Otherwise, she might have laughed in my face during our pre-holiday trip to Target this morning.
We were in what I like to call the goody aisle; the aisle with all of the cakes, cookies and [...]

Most of the time my daughter is utterly fearless, barreling into new experiences with unflagging curiosity. Recently, however, particularly after my Thursday-Friday work trip to Denver, the baby has exhibited a new personality trait, too: She’s getting scared.
Literally. As in, she says, “Scared, scared,” and clutches me for dear life.
I wrote about the very first [...]

L’s independence is growing as rapidly as her fingernails these days. Before we went to Vegas for the weekend (to see the resulting story, click here), she was going through a clingy phase. Now, however, she’s perfectly content doing stuff on her own.
When we “meddle” in her newfound solo-living, she’s also content expressing her frustration [...]

Since the day L was born, I’ve envisioned myself as a “cool” Dad, the kind of guy who’d escort his kid(s) to a Taylor Swift concert and allow the purchase of the same silly-but-trendy stuff that all the other kids are wearing (those new Silly Bandz bracelets, for instance).
Especially on the subject of language, because [...]

One day after L’s doctor dubbed her “advanced,” the baby responded by taking a giant step into the Terrible Twos: She threw her first official temper tantrum.
It was ugly, folks. I mean, real ugly. She screamed. She cried. She convulsed on the floor like an epileptic. At one point she even laid on the guilt, [...]

Parenthood certainly doesn’t get any easier.
This was the gist of a story in the Style section of Sunday’s edition of The New York Times. The story was about how mean-girl bullying is now rearing its ugly head in elementary school.
Essentially (after tons of exposition and—in my opinion—too many anecdotes), the story said kids (especially [...]

At some point over the last few weeks, I discovered that a great way to distract L while I putting on her socks and shoes was to let her play with my wallet.
Time and time again, she’d sit quietly and investigate the thing, pulling out all of my plastic (only two credit cards, thank you [...]