Someday I will be able to leave my remotes on the table.Someday a whole day in my house will go by without anyone crying.Someday my Bill Cosby impersonation will be appreciated.Someday I will be able to eat a snack without anyone asking for some of it.Someday outings will not need to be scheduled around nap times.Someday will be the last day I have to look at someone else’s poop.Someday I will go to the basement and no one will care.Someday I will go to a restaurant and everyone will eat the food that the restaurant provides.Someday bedtime won’t be a ritual.Someday everyone in the house will speak perfect, understandable English.Someday…
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Daughter’s Dilemma
I find myself in a parenting dilemma, and I’m probably not the only father with it. And that is how to deal with bullies. Or rather, how to raise my daughter to deal with bullies. Throughout the years, the conventional wisdom has changed dramatically. In the fifties, nerds just accepted the abuse and cried in their rooms. They eventually became Bill Gates and Steve Wozniak, but they probably don’t have very good self-esteem. They become like Marty’s father in Back to the Future. I grew up reciting the “sticks and stones” mantra. Kids my age were taught to ignore bullies. That bullies are cowards. That if you don’t give them…