Kids have it right because they haven’t enough civilization and experience to do what isn’t natural. Let’s face it, we are animals, in the species timescale just a blink away from striding the plains and bashing each other with clubs.…
You’d think I would’ve learned my lesson. You’d be wrong. This weekend on a beautiful sunny day I brought Number Two out into the yard for some afternoon frivolity and nature communion. I smiled as I saw some birds wriggling…
Here’s a bombshell: playing princess Yahtzee is more important than spending extra time at work. See Child Harbat below, with the game pieces ready. Why is this more important than work? Or more importantly, why is this more important to…
It’s amazing what you can get for free in the neighborhood. My wife, with her bargain radar always dialed up to “Maximum Intensity”, spotted a free water play table in someone’s yard recently. At least I hope it was labeled…
I’ve often written about my daughter’s extroverted nature. From her earliest days we could see her joy was in interaction with others, often exhausting my wife and I with her unquenchable thirst for talking, playing, and roughhousing when we really…
The Hamilton Children’s Garden at the Quail Botanical Gardens is a magical place for young and old. In the spirit of those creepy 1980s ads for sugar cereal, the grown-up in me marveled at the design and engineering, the kid…