Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, to our coverage of the 2022 Dad Olympics.
Author: Matthew Jones
The other Friday, I took the family on an outing to Kings Dominion. We have season passes (a little pricey but worth it after only two visits). If you don’t have a season pass, the best bang for…
We were in Duck, North Carolina, in late May. We were there with family and friends for our annual beach trip to the Outer Banks. It was a chilly, cloudy day, so instead of going to the beach, we…
You can fit a surprising amount of quality time into 10 minutes of doing laundry with a 3-year-old.
Recently, I had a little time after my workday was done and needed something to occupy my…
I recently went to my friend’s daughter’s ninth birthday pool party. I’m used to parties with kids the ages of my children—3 and almost 6. Those parties make sense to me; the kids play with each…
Introducing ChatGPT
In a previous post, I poked around at some chatbots and asked them about parenting. The results were … disappointing. But since then, a super-powered chatbot you may have…
Last week my 5-year-old son Benny asked me, “When can we go back to the place with the big slides? The one where you ride on a carpet?” It took some questioning to get him to elaborate, but I…
Having kids makes you consider your own mortality in a different light. Now if you were to keel over, there are these little people that depend on you that would be left high and dry. You may not…
In a previous post, I wrote about all the funny stuff my 5-year-old son Benny has said over the years. I was able to remember all that stuff because I wrote it down, and suggested you do the same….
Have you ever played a video game? Like, ever? In most cases you usually play the game on “normal” mode your first time through, then later if you’re looking for a challenge you play on “hard”…