The force be with you may

Katie Goldman is a different little girl, in fact, so different that I in some ways envy her. Katie She has her starwars motifed water bottle to school, have a starwars backpack, and some anonymous boy tries to taunt her for it claiming its a bottle for boys, not little 10 year old girls. Now first off, to Katie I want to say this: Stand up for your right to be an individual. Keep... Read More

Back to work I go

Well, the 10 work day paternity leave ends tomorrow morning, and it is with mixed feelings that I go to work tomorrow. Mixed because I do like my work, I enjoy the coworkers and all but still, I have this little bundle at home that is squeeking for its parents because its all it knows how to do. What is its name? Well, we have settled for Emil, wich in my ears and eyes suits this little... Read More

SOS! Save me please!!!!

Oh no, it has happened. My son has, despite my best efforts developed a horrible taste in music. For some odd reason he has started to like the Numa Numa song and Karamelldansen (featuring the Tokyo stormtrooper)… sheeeeeesh The worst part of it all is that he pretty much demands that you kick in the repeat button on those songs so hard that they never stop and its slowly,... Read More

NO No no no no no no no IIIIIIIIIIIIIIH

Thats the most common sound right now here at home. For some reason my son has decided that ”no” is the equivalent of both the swedish word ”nej” wich is no, and pretty much anything that he doesnt want at the moment. And boy, that is frustrating. He stands up, declares his noes, with no explanation whatsoever, and you know that he can imply most things that... Read More

If you have a daughter…

…then this song should appeal to you tremendously. I dont have a daughter, but I realize that the same thing that Mr. Chapman describes happens to me and my son over and over again. Everything goes so fast and it feels like yesterday when I held him in my arms and he gurgled and cooed. Now he has learned the word No, wont stand still for more then 2 seconds and constantly... Read More

Do the yo-yo dance

Not sure how many of you out there that knows how hard it is to get a kid to stay in its own bed for the first period that you get them out of the cot, but let me tell you, it will wear you down to nothing pretty darn fast. David has got one of those extendable bed now, so he has something to grow in so to speak, and thats all well and good, however, he doesnt really agree with... Read More

Men have no saying regarding pregnancy

Been reading a lot of parenting sites, and (what else is new) I started to think about how pregnancies and fatherhood is regarded in todays society. And the conclusion is that there really isn’t much a man have to say about the whole matter. Let’s use some logic, at least thats what I call it. It is the womans body who is affected. The woman decides wether or not the... Read More

Emotional storm

Emotions are funny things really, we can’t surpress them, and we can hide them, but beneath the exterior of our masks, they are still there. Churning, want to induce laughter or make you cry but somehow, in todays society we generally dont show emotions the way that might be needed sometimes, we bottle it all up inside and swallows that lump down and pretend that it was never... Read More

Parental feelings

Sometimes you tire of your offspring, of course, who doesn’t loose patience at one point or another, but you do your best not to take it out on the child. At least, thats what anyone that has a clear cut conscience does. You see, just because one’s life is hard, stressful and filled with adversity, there is no real excuse to take things out on a poor, innocent child,... Read More

Ahoy mateys, hoist the sails and raise anchor…

…because daddy has a new little pirate around. There was a fair in town this weekend, quite large ones actually and there was quite a lot to look at, but a few things struck me as odd. First, it seemed like every third stall was selling sunglasses and well, to be honest, not the good looking ones. These where the types that was modern in the 70′s, and might be so now,... Read More