Parenting

Enter this guy for Father of the Year Award.

As NJ teachers will be starting a new evaluation process, there have been many discussions on just how the process should work but not many have included one important factor: The parents.

Many children go through a phase where they 'hate' their parents, and celebrity parents are no exception to this rule.

Judi was discussing how it still amazes her how much homework kids get nowadays. To Judi, it just seems as if they get so much more than she or even her older kids received when they were students.

The old saying goes: "if you can't do the time, don't do the crime." One cyber bully is learning this lesson the hard way.

A 3rd grade boy in Covington, Georgia was suspended from school for possession of banned objects. The banned object was the sugary disc candy known as Smarties. It wasn't so much the Smarties that was the eye opener here though. It was the fact that he wasn't eating them. He was snorting them. Snorting them like lines of cocaine.

A listener was kind enough to send me an article from the Toronto Globe and Mail entitled "A Hockey Dad's Last Ride"; it was about being unprepared about breaking bonds you've formed with your children.

Am I alone in this? I go back to school shopping and get great stuff for my 6-year old little girl and my 8-year old son. I work hard to find a good variety, careful to make the stuff versatile so a certain shirt could go with a lot of different pants, etc., I do it within budget, and they have enough new, nice things they should feel really good about.

If anyone has ever given enough reasons in one fail swoop as to why our kids shouldn't have smart phones, comedian Louis C.K. may have just given the strongest argument.

How much does the tooth fairy leave under your child’s pillow? How much did she leave for you? Where I once got a quarter, my children get $20 per tooth. Who knew? Actually my wife did, but by the time she told me the tooth fairy had already come.