Children’s books generally fall into one of three categories; they’re either goofy and pointless, simplistic versions of adult stories or they’re education disguised as entertainment. Nearly any kids book you can think of can be categorized in thos…
If you are not a silly child, or in possession of such things, then back to school hype is meaningless to you. You don’t need a lunch box or a pencil case or…what else do kids have? Sugar beets? I dunno.
Remember when you were a child? Neither does your absentee father! Ha ha! Wait, no, that was uncalled for. My dad left, too. He joined the circus to “make for hump” with the bearded lady and never came back. We both have trauma. Let’s start ov…
If you’re a Jew or a Mexican girl, there’s a specific day where you officially become an adult. For everyone else, becoming a grown-up is a gradual process, and most of the time you don’t realize that you’ve become an adult u…
Books are great things and it’s a shame to see what’s happened to literacy in an internet world where people will actively argue on behalf of poor grammar and spelling because it “doesn’t matter.” Don’t get angr…
Last night was Halloween and that meant, unless you were responsible with your real estate wheelings and dealings and got a home in an apartment or in the deep woods protected by ravenous hounds, children you didn’t know showed up at your door and …
Look, we all know that smoking and drinking is bad for you. But what if you start really early and build up a tolerance? Would that help at all? Not sure if it’d help your health, but if you’re way too young to be smoking and/or drinkin…
Kids aren’t super geniuses, unless they’re those creepy super genius kids that you shouldn’t trust because they’re eerie and weird. But for the most part, when you were a kid, you probably did a lot of dumb stuff. I once pooped in a bathtub. Not…
It’s about time we all wised up and stopped treating out children like the children of old. Kids today are much smarter and much wiser than we in our youthful heydays could have imagined ourselves ever being. This is why I am in an uproar about thi…