Fern’s latest pattern is to sleep in until 10:30 or later, fall asleep by 9:30 (which has always been her usual), then be up in the middle of the night for a two-hour tea and cracker break.Oddly enough, that’s not unlike my sleep pattern in...
Topics: school, sleep

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In tenth grade, I once saw a cool kid wearing a collared shirt over another collared shirt. Although I was — then as now — completely ignorant of the arcane rules that make an outift fashionable, I could at least decode the two-collar thing,..
Topics: confusion, failure, Stuff You Feel

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I was once a master of minutiae. Where the hell is my sock?Ninja-like, I always knew where every little thing had gotten to. "Dad, where’s my other rainbow skull sock?" Fern would ask (and what parent hasn’t gotten that question?) and.
Topics: pink, sadness, stuff, toys

{"title":"I want my pipe cleaner","post_url":"http:\/\/doodaddy.net\/2009\/09\/24\/i-want-my-pipe-cleaner\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/doodaddy.net\/feed","author":"Doodaddy","date":"2009-09-24 02:50:00","summary":"I was once a master of minutiae. Where the hell is my sock?Ninja-like, I always knew where every little thing had gotten to. \"Dad, where’s my other rainbow skull sock?\" Fern would ask (and what parent hasn’t gotten that question?) and."}

I don’t like to pathologize kids’ quirks, but sometimes my daughter is a nutcase. Kissing a swallowtail.Fern’s always had a thing for nature, probably down to all the snails and millipedes I forced on her as an infant. I push her to grow up.
Topics: behavior, confusion, nature

{"title":"Leaf Hoarder","post_url":"http:\/\/doodaddy.net\/2009\/09\/23\/leaf-hoarder\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/doodaddy.net\/feed","author":"Doodaddy","date":"2009-09-23 01:10:18","summary":"I don’t like to pathologize kids\u2019 quirks, but sometimes my daughter is a nutcase. Kissing a swallowtail.Fern’s always had a thing for nature, probably down to all the snails and millipedes I forced on her as an infant. I push her to grow up."}

“Did you know that fairy princesses grow up to be wicked witches?”(During a bath.) “I have to run into the bedroom for a minute. Keep talking so I’ll know you haven’t drowned.” “If you ever date someone who drives an Escalade,...
Topics: amazement, imaginary friend, language, raising a girl, things I never thought I'd say

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