Everything I’ve learned that turned out to be worth knowing, I learned from reading books that someone else had banned. Eff ’em. Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is the right book in the right place. TANSTAAFL.
SOBUMD: Is it considered bad parenting if I tell the youngest child to stop giving me the “bitchface”? HTR (11-yr-old): No, it’s called life skills. (headdesk) I’m thinking of just retiring and letting her run the rest of the family.
Putting the younger two to bed last night, there was a discussion of toys lost and then found. The RQoP began singing “The Toys are Back” to the tune of High School Musical 3’s “The Boys are Back”. Number One Son looked at her and said “Yeah, that’s just like…” and then proceed to sing […]
It is a little-known fact that the entire decline and fall of the Roman Empire can be traced back to the their failure to teach their kids to cook.
The selling of indulgences went out of vogue hundreds of years ago, and hasn’t really come back – Lindsay Lohan notwithstanding.