Apparently my daughter is now old enough that when I’m away on business we send each other emails1.
In order to illustrate for some people at my office why it was that I no longer was interested in my business travel being any more than the bare functional minimum, I showed them today’s missive:
When you come [...]
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Warning: this will be a Sappy Dad™ post.
I woke up this morning to a smiling three year old face. I was wished a Happy Father’s Day, and handed this:
I was unsurprised by the signature, as I have seen Sarah working on writing her name quite a few times now. I was pretty shocked by the [...]
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A while back my wife passed me a PDF copy of an academic paper entitled “Polite, well-dressed and on time: secondary school conduct codes and the production of docile citizens” by Brock University researcher Rebecca Raby. The citation shows the paper as having originally been published in The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology; Feb [...]
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It should not be possible for a child that small to produce so much vomit.
Apparently my hard-earned parenting experience has made me blase about all other possible organic messes, but has not really protected me from child vomit. I mean, I can do what needs to be done, but that stuff is nasty. Back in [...]
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Apparently my wife is well aware of exactly what my emotional Achilles’ Heel is, since she sent me this story:
3-year-old found alive after plane crash kills two
For five hours in the freezing mountains, a little girl hung from a car seat in the twisted wreckage of a crashed Cessna. When rescue workers finally reached her, [...]
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