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Saved by the Nobel

Rejoice Americans! Ok, so we didn’t get the Olympics. Big deal. The last thing Chicago needs is another huge stadium to hold all of its losing sports teams. Besides, they probably would have just had a talking slice of pizza as the Olympic mascot. Poppy the Pepperoni! Very embarrassing. No, forget...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on 10-14-2009
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First Day Jitters

Asher recently had his very first day of Preschool. We weren’t really sure how it was going to go. His older sister, Audra, had loved preschool, but as it turns out, kids are different. I know that sounds shockingly obvious, but before I had kids, I’m not sure I truly understood that. Of...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on 09-03-2009
Filed under: Filed under: Audra, Asher, Better off Dad, Micah, school, preschool [Edit Tags]
First Day of First Grade

Yesterday was Audra’s first day of first grade. In case I might have forgotten this fact, I was reminded when she ran into our bedroom at exactly 7:00am wearing her brand new school outfit and carrying her backpack, all ready to go. Only an hour and 45 minutes till the bus comes. Just so you know...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on 08-25-2009
Filed under: Filed under: Audra, Asher, Better off Dad, school [Edit Tags]
Time for School Supplies! Better Take out That Second Mortgage

Ah, it’s that time of year again. The birds are sweating, the tourists are starting to migrate West and the newspaper is clogged with ads for spiral bound notebooks. School is coming and so is the need for school supplies. At the end of school last year, my daughter Audra came home with a list...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on 08-11-2009
Filed under: Filed under: Audra, Better off Dad, school, inequality [Edit Tags]
When You Step Off the Bus, You’re a First Grader

Yesterday, my daughter Audra finished her last day of Kindergarten. When she got on the bus in the morning, she was just a wee kindergartener. At the beginning of the year she could barely sound out words, had no idea what subtraction was and had never even heard the phrase “school lunch.”...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on 06-11-2009
Filed under: Filed under: Audra, Better off Dad, school [Edit Tags]
Hold it…. hold it… pose…. and Jazz Hands!

On Wednesday I had to get Micah up at 4:30 a.m. to make sure that he was sufficiently cranky and exhausted for his EEG. It was clear that neither of us really wanted to be up at 4:30 in the morning. And neither of us seemed to have much ability to do anything besides sit there and stare blankly at the...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on 05-22-2009
Filed under: Filed under: Music, Better off Dad, school [Edit Tags]
Bowling For Dollars

My daughter brings home about ten sheets of paper every day from the local public school that she attends. It’s usually a collection of writing pages practicing the letter R, math sheets adding 2 +3, something where you had to cut out a picture of a cactus, color it and glue it on something else...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on 05-11-2009
Filed under: Filed under: Audra, Better off Dad, school [Edit Tags]
17 Again? Um, No Thanks.

My wife and I went to see the movie “17 Again” recently. The premise is more or less the same one you remember from about half a dozen different movies in the 80s. A person (this time a 40 year old man who has been a loser as a husband and father) dreams of having the chance to do things...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on 04-22-2009
Filed under: Filed under: Better off Dad, school, movies [Edit Tags]
I’m Mad! Completely Mad! HA HA HA HA!

Last week, my 6 year old daughter, Audra’s, School held their career day. Every child was supposed to dress up as the job they wanted to have when they grew up. Audra wanted to be…… (wait for it)…. A Mad Scientist. Now where, you might ask, does the desire to become a mad scientist...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on 04-08-2009
Filed under: Filed under: Audra, school [Edit Tags]
If it’s So Important, Call Willard Scott and Get Your Face on Some Jam

Today is Audra’s 100th Day of School. “So what?” you might ask. Yes, I sort of felt the same way. When I was a kid, you know what we did on the 100th day of school? We went to school. That’s it. No parties, no contests, no celebrations. You just showed up like usual, learned the...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on 02-17-2009
Filed under: Filed under: Audra, Better off Dad, school [Edit Tags]
She Likes the Bad Boys

My 6 year old daughter recently got switched to a new Kindergarten class. Apparently, half way through the year, someone finally got around to doing a head count and realized that there were too many kids in the kindergarten classes so they brought in a new teacher. Audra seemed fine with it and I didn’t...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on 02-05-2009
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Preschools: And Away We Go!

We are in the throes of applications, interviews, and tours. It seems absurd; the Bees is not quite 20 months and we are wringing our hands over what school she will be attending next fall. It seems that The Bees might be outgrowing our daily ritual of getting Mummy’s coffee, dry cleaners, book...

Posted to Raising DC by DC Mom by districtmom on 11-24-2008
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Does Your Child Watch Television?

I was one of those mothers who insisted my child would never watch television before the age of 6, when she could take in the series of “The Tudors” or “I Claudius”, or if she were very good, maybe a performance of “The Three Tenors at Carnegie Hall”. I was sure TV...

Posted to Raising DC by DC Mom by districtmom on 10-22-2008
Filed under: Filed under: dc, baby, toddler, Dora, watch, tv, cartoon, school, Three Tenors, television, I Claudius., show, children, commercials, applications, The Tudors, material, network [Edit Tags]
Don't Grow So Fast

CB and I have decided we’re not having a second child. I’m turning 43 in a week, we don’t have help and he’s traveling 3 to 4 days a week on business. It just seems too much. Having always imagined a large boisterous family I’ll have to make do with the boisterous part,...

Posted to Raising DC by DC Mom by districtmom on 10-17-2008
Filed under: Filed under: dc, baby, toddler, school, raising, family, tall, smell, rearing, grow, bonging, camcorder, sniff, sibling, video camera, age [Edit Tags]
Back to School Night - AKA the Night You Meet all the Other Parents and Figure out Who's got the Weird Kid

Audra had her kindergarten open house last night. Sarah and I dutifully attended along with hundreds of other parents all eager to do what good parents are supposed to do. We watched as the PTO president, someone who clearly sees a Vice Presidency slot in her future, took the stage and prattled on about...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on 09-10-2008
Filed under: Filed under: Audra, Better off Dad, school [Edit Tags]

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