Tag: parenthood

He’ll Make A Great Lawyer Someday…

theincredidad February 1, 2020 0 Comments
Negotiating With A Terrorist Boy Wonder is one of the most stubborn people I have ever met. He inherits that shimmering quality from his dad…and his mom. Now imagine the warzone that our living room becomes when these three strong wills oppose each other; at bedtime, on a school night. It’s an unpleasant experience that usually ends in tears. Well it used to. Somewhere along the lines;…
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Coming Soon – Attack Of The Fifty Food Toddler

theincredidad January 18, 2020 0 Comments
Attack Of the Fifty-Foot Toddler! FADE IN: Cue Dramatic Overture INSERT - A revolving globe. When it stops revolving it turns briefly into a contour map of the United States, then into a flat map. Superimposed over this map are scenes of refugee parents fleeing from suburban houses by foot, car, and bicycle. NARRATOR (V.O.) Horror!Shock!Frenzy!Devastation! The images of map and refugees…
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Golden Aged Heroes

theincredidad January 12, 2020 1 Comments
I wish I could say that I was Boy Wonder's favorite superhero but I'm not. Like most people, he is a fan of the Golden Age of heroes. The OG's. The one's I steal all the gadgets in my utility belt from. On the West Coast he has the dynamic duo of IncrediPapa and IncrediGramma and GreatGrams. On the East Coast, he has Super Grammie, and two GreatGrands. IncrediMom and I are outnumbered! We never…
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Trials of Toilet Training

theincredidad December 19, 2019 1 Comments
Did you know that there are apps to help with potty training? Why the hell would anyone want that? Call me old fashioned, but I believe technology and the toilet are the farthest thing from peanut butter and chocolate. This sentiment goes double for any tech that is “smart” or “connected”. There’s a reason it’s called Twitter and not Shitter. Of course, I’m guilty of scrolling…
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Thanksgiving With A Toddler

theincredidad November 28, 2019 0 Comments
Today is the big kick off of the holiday season. For most of us, it will be the first inevitable family gathering of the season. Since this could set the tone for how public outings go for your toddler over the next month, it might be important to pull some tools out of your utility belt to help you both survive until the new year.  Spoken from childhood experience, Thanksgiving break is…
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One Of The Hardest Things About Being A Dad In 2019

theincredidad November 23, 2019 1 Comments
Hey there Incredidads. Maybe you haven’t noticed but I haven’t flipped on the IncrediSignal in a few weeks. I hope you haven’t noticed because that means, like me, you are trying to vanquish one of the vilest super-villains an IncrediDad can face; putting down the phone. In the Disney/Pixar film “The Incredibles”, the heroes face off against a villain named Screenslaver, who hypnotizes…
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Bed Time

theincredidad November 10, 2019 0 Comments
Although it happens around the same time every night, Boy Wonder acts like I'm sentencing him to hard time behind bars. So the defendant naturally tries to present his case the best that he can, even if that results in a bit of con-artistry. Kids are a lot smarter than we give them credit for. For example, they may not know their abc's or long division by the time they turn two but they sure…
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T.V. Dads

theincredidad October 12, 2019 1 Comments
Can we all agree that t.v. dads are terrible fathers? These guys gave me the wrong idea about fatherhood from the very beginning. I had visions, trapped in the golden age of sitcoms, wrapped in a cardigan sweater, and aged in the homey aroma of pipe tobacco, that played out with me resembling a frighteningly Frankensteined combination of Mike Brady, Mr. Rogers, Ward Cleaver, and Mr. Feeney. I…
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Picture Day

theincredidad October 6, 2019 1 Comments
Day care sent home a letter that Picture day is next week. Now maybe it's because we have cameras on our phones these days but I started asking myself, do I really need that? Don't I have three hundred pictures of Boy Wonder in the same pose already? "Oh look! There's another one of him sleeping. I'm sorry I don't have any recent ones, this is from a month ago. He looks totally different now."…
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From Gotham to Green Acres

theincredidad September 22, 2019 0 Comments
If you haven’t heard about Friday’s Global Climate Strike, let me get you up to speed IncrediReader. “The idea was to bring together a group of remarkable people, see if they could become something more. See if they could work together when we needed them to to fight the battles we never could.”Oh, that was The Avengers? Well read on anyways and then we’ll talk about how the friendly…
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