Past Posts

  • #49: Be Thankful

    #49: Be Thankful

    “What do you say?” We would ask you chidingly, whenever anyone gave you something. “Thank you,” you’d say dutifully, eyes downward, waiting anxiously to play with whatever toy/book/food object that you were given. You’d say it (often after already grabbing whatever it was that was offered to you), and you’d scamper off. As you got…

  • Why this blog exists.

    I’m a lucky father of three girls. It’s the hardest, most stressful, most wonderful and amazingly rewarding job I’ve ever had. I remember arguing with my college roommate on the classic nature vs. nurture debate. I then naively thought of children as a blank canvas that parents can write on.  I had an outsize idea of…