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Children's humor
Children’s humor
I’ve been told on numerous occasions I’m a ‘comedian’, and mostly in the negative sense. The kind where finger quotes are needed and no suggestion that I am this generation’s Aziz Ansari.
I do have one receptive audience who are pretty easy please, and will listen and laugh with very little heckling. For a two year old most things are funny; and at four months anything that involves a silly face…
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Parenting luxuries
Being a parent means giving up on life's luxuries for the promise that children will be worth their weight in gold #needbiggerkids
Having two small children I am apparently allowed to bemoan my lot in life, woe is me for I have forsoke a life of pleasure and fun to propagate the species. While I don’t subscribe to this dystopian view of fatherhood there are a few things I do miss.
Like being able to blog without distraction
I’m sure I’m not alone as there are plenty of great works of literature that cover the travails of…
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Our user names are one letter off and both our names are Alex. That's weird.
I don’t know what to do with this information. I woke up around 6 this morning, saw this, and just said “I have to go back to bed.”
Good url, Alex
My and my shadow
My and my shadow
One of the joys of life is cooking, and I am lucky that I can do this most nights. We have delivered a box full of ingredients and from this we get to make dishes that vary from carbonara to mu shu pork. It used to be that I would get home, turn on the gas, and have dinner ready for Mrs G when she got home.
Now I pick up Feliciraptor from nursery, and A-Rex is at home with his mother, I have the…
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A-Rex
Sometimes, after a really bad nightmare, he sneaks out of their room, out from under UltraViolet’s arms. He goes to the roof and looks out on the stars. Violet notices of course. She waits a few minutes before following him up there. She stands a few feet away, taking him in before going over and wrapping her arms around him again and kissing him on the cheek, reminding him it was just a nightmare. They go back into the room like nothing ever happened, but she can tell, he’s a little closer to her than he was before.
Getting your child to sleep
The greatest challenge any parent faces is sleep, how to get more of it and get their child to embrace it #swaddlethem
We were too smug, we thought we had cracked it, we told ourselves we would just do it again and everything would be good. After getting Feliciraptor to fit into a sleep routine we expected to be able to do it again. As we struggle to get one child to sleep we have let our watch slip.
The night is dark and full of toddlers.
The horn that wakes the sleeper
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A-Rex
Sometimes people take things for granted? Wrong. People take everything for granted, even when they promise not to. You can say it’s something we’ve become accustomed to do huh? We’re people who have the power to change the world, to warp it to our ability but people do nothing but complain to us and shun us. I’m not saying they should accept us and take us in with warm arms. I’m telling you to treat others the way you want to be treated. Do I want a fan base? Hell naw. But do I want direct criticism and hatred from the people I’m trying to protect? Does anyone really?
