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The Performance Review
If there was one piece of criticism that I would agree with, it is that I don’t take criticism very well. I still remember the horrified look on my dad’s face when I yelled at my YMCA T-ball coach because he criticized my swing. Years later in Jr. High, I argued with a teacher for [...]
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Tags: performance reviews, Taking feedback
Take Your Kid to Work
I was reading this article about how an air traffic controller brought their kid into the office and let them give a few commands to planes landing at JFK. It was one of those situations where I could easily see both sides of the argument. On one hand, you could make a case for it [...]
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Tags: Child directs airplanes over radio transmissions at JFK airport, Take Your Child to Work Day
Mowing the Lawn
It was a wonderful surprise to see some sun today. It was a great day to get some work done in the yard with my little buddy.
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Tags: Mowing the lawn, Sun in Portland
Jerry Seinfeld and Parenting
Like many others, I was a big fan of the Seinfeld show and still have many of the episodes memorized. And I’m sure that I’m not alone when I think about Festivus in late December. So when I saw an interview with Seinfeld in Parade, I was really interested in seeing what the kind of [...]
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Tags: Fatherhood, Jerry Seinfeld, Parade, Parenting, The Marriage Ref
Wordless Wednesday
One day, my kid is going to be really embarassed by all of these photos I post on the site. But until then, enjoy!
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Daddy, Where’s Your Vagina?
It was a bittersweet moment as my truck made it over the crest of Grant’s Pass and California faded in my rearview mirror. I was both excited and terrified as I realized life as I knew it was changing, but a world of opportunity was ahead. While my big relocation is years in the past, [...]
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Tags: Book Review, Daddy Where's Your Vagina, Joe Schatz
Babies with Laser Eyes
I’m not going to kid you. The internet has some really weird crap out there. The latest meme going around is this Babies with Laser Beams thing. Now while I might fear that my dog wants to kill me while I sleep, I never wanted to envision the same for my child. This site isn’t [...]
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Tags: Babies with laser eyes, Internet nonsense
An iPad for Preschoolers
Kids these days are so lucky. I never had toys like this growing up. The best thing I had was a Nintendo system, and I had to blow in the game cartridges just to get the darn thing to work.
But my son? He lives in a world where Costco sells robot ponies and Fisher-Price makes [...]
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Tags: Fisher-Price iXL Learning System
I saw this yesterday in an airport gift shop. Someone seriously had the balls to package up some rubber bands and call it a do-it-yourself project. You have to love marketing.
Maybe Office Depot should repackage their reams of paper as do it yourself origami or paper airplane kits.
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Tags: Bad gifts for kids, Do it yourself projects, Random stuff I saw while traveling, Rubber Band Ball
