Why is the sky blue? Do bees hum because they don't know the words? Why do three-year-olds ask 10,000 questions a day? We know, we know — kids can drive you crazy with all their questions. The reason three-year-olds ask questions is simple: they only have about 1,000 words in their arsenal. They figured out that, by asking questions, they will ...
The hard place in the phrase, "between a rock and a hard place" was a whirlpool. In Homer's epic poem, The Odyssey, Odysseus must navigate his ship, the Argo, between a rocky cliff inhabited by the monster Scylla and a whirlpool inhabited by the monster Charybdis. Day care centers often feel themselves in that unfortunate spot because of Virginia custody orders. Your ...
Two heads are better than one. This old saying epitomizes only one of eight benefits of living as a blended family. A blended family is a single Mom with children partnering with a single Virginia Dad with children. Where one parent carried each household, now a Mom and a Dad shoulder the parenting burden together, with their kids under two wings ...
Lancing a boil is a simple process, really. Apply hot compresses "to encourage the boil to come to a head and drain." It's disgusting, we know, but for many Virginia Dads, lancing a boil is preferable to trying to find fun things to do with teenagers. Well, suck it up, Buttercup, because we have great ideas for real (and completely ...
Comedian John Mulaney casually mentions, in his Netflix special The Comeback Kid, that his childhood was different from today's kids. Says Mulaney, “My dad loved us. He just didn’t care about our general happiness or self-esteem.” Today's parents strive to be their children's pals, and this leads to two nightmarish scenarios: helicopter parents, and lawnmower parents. What is a Helicopter Parent? ...
More than two million men are stay-at-home fathers, according to Pew Research1. If you are one of them, you know the constant jibes and jabs you fend off: you get up when you want, you don't punch a time clock, you are just lazy. For every insult, a stereotype lurks behind it. Let's look at five of these unfair stereotypes ...
Virginia is a typical American state, if you consider “typical” to include, according to Only In Your State1, the world's longest boardwalk (Virginia Beach), the world's record for being struck by lightning, and the world's biggest mandolin jam. Virginia is typically atypical, as are Virginia's Moms and Dads. Working out holiday custody schedules can start with “typical” and lead to ...
The Gettysburg Address is 272 powerful words. Declaration of Independence? 1,337 words, without the 56 signers' autographs (1,458 with them). Our title for this piece? A scant seven words, but oh, so complex an issue! So many possible answers! Two Ways to Order Child Support In Virginia, child support is determined one of two ways: You and the child's mother ...
We marvel that the list has only eight items, but website We Have Kids lists eight warning signs that you are a bad parent. You'd expect things like neglecting or abusing your kid, sure. But some are surprising, like "irresponsible financial behavior." We have personally witnessed hundreds of examples of bad parenting, often from visiting tourists on our Virginia Beach boardwalk. ...