• Stu wrote a new post 7 years, 9 months ago

    There’s a video stumbling around the Facebooks recently encouraging the teaching of Life Skills in school.

    It lays down statistics that 30% of college kids can’t boil an egg. My college kid CAN boil an egg. T […]

  • Stu wrote a new post 8 years ago

    Recently, I’ve realized my daughter isn’t quite the same. Her enthusiasm for things just isn’t there. For a while, I blamed teenage angst. Right? I mean all teens go through that. In fact, that tends to lead into […]

  • Stu wrote a new post 8 years, 1 month ago

    You know when friends invite you to their kid’s birthday party, but you don’t really know the kids and you’re not sure what to get them?

    Awkward, right?

    So, how awkward is it when you get to that point with […]

  • Stu wrote a new post 8 years, 3 months ago

    We tell our kids that the holidays are about spending time with family.

    But, at the end of the day, don’t we focus we more on the traditions the holidays have assigned to them, than the actual time spent […]

  • Stu wrote a new post 8 years, 4 months ago

    A couple months ago, I talked about how your kids leaving home isn’t that bad. In that post, we talked about staying busy. We talked about following some before-I-die dream.

    We also talked about the idea of […]

  • Stu wrote a new post 8 years, 5 months ago

    ThumbnailI made a deal with my daughter when I bought her a car. SHE was responsible for everything.

    So, when I was borrowing her car and realized the registration was out of date, I didn’t quite handle it […]

  • Stu wrote a new post 8 years, 5 months ago

    ThumbnailWhen you’re used to having your kids around all the time and suddenly they’re living at college, it’s a huge change for both kids and their parents. I joked recently about all the positives about your kids going […]

  • Stu wrote a new post 8 years, 7 months ago

    ThumbnailNothing makes your heart been faster than those five magic words…

    I got my test back.

    This is the make-it or break-it time of the day. Good grade = good night. Bad grade = moody and frustrated, maybe some […]

  • Stu wrote a new post 8 years, 9 months ago

    Thumbnail“Dad, it’s fine. I’m not going to get MERS in Korea.”

    Yeah, that makes me nervous. Sure going to Korea in the middle of the MERS scare is unnerving, but the idea that she’s incapable – that it’s a definite to […]

  • Stu wrote a new post 8 years, 10 months ago

    ThumbnailLeaving home for college = freedom.

    I’m a little nervous that unbridled freedom will unravel all of the lesson I’ve taught her. I’m a little nervous that the group mentality will pull her in. Frankly, I’m more […]

  • Stu wrote a new post 8 years, 11 months ago

    ThumbnailWarning: The following post is a tirade.

    As my daughter is walking out to her car, she watches as another teen drives his car into the back of it. R picks up her pace a bit to get to the car and grab insurance […]