I featured Brazil! Brazil! at the New Victory on my clownlink website, and it’s going to be great for families (they recommend everybody, but lots of loud noise, so if your kids are very sensitive to loud noise, they might have a problem) I also  wanted to make sure to mention the cool classes  and [...]

I recently attended the “soft opening” of a brand new kid’s store downtown.  It’s J &R Jr., part of the seminal  downtown landmark J & R ____ World (electronic, music, and now kid’s.  They also have a cafe!) The store began when the son of the founders of J&R, whose name is Jason, had a [...]

A few days ago, when we had a nice warm day, AA demanded to ride his tricycle. I didn’t want to let him at first.  It’s a pain to get it out of the garage, and we walk to the top of the hill, and half the time there are a bunch of not nice [...]

I received my first note from my son yesterday.  He was playing Post Office with his mom (not the kissing game! pretending to deliver letters) and they wrote one for me. He knocked on the kitchen chair, and then delivered it. I had bought him some munchkins for an after-school treat, and he was being [...]

Catching up on some reading, I found this great article about a Microsoft researcher named Danah Boyd, who is a scholar/activist/advocate for teenagers and kids online. http://tinyurl.com/zephoria-nytimes Here’s a quote from the article: But as Dr. Boyd sees it, adults are worrying about the wrong things. Children today, she said, are reacting online largely to [...]

If you are reading this blogpost, you probably already know all about Dad bloggers and the Dad2 Summit in Austin.  If somehow you discovered this post in some bizarre way, and it has escaped you so far, let me fill you in. There have been lots of Mom blog conferences (esp. Mom2, and Blogher (which [...]

Today was going to be a normal everyday school day. He was playing and having fun, we were counting buses in the car, and talking about silly things on our way to school.  We hadn’t even had our usual fight about what to bring for show and tell, or that he should eat more (he [...]

Early in the morning at  the inlaws, and we are in the playroom. AA: Daddy, I want to play music on the (Casio) piano.  Dance! ME: I don’t want to dance.  I’ll play music and you dance. AA: No, I want to play music! ME: How about if I videotape you playing music, and then [...]

I somehow forgot to mention that the boy and I saw Cirque Shanghai. at the New Victory Theatre on Sunday. In a word:  AWESOME! (Read my full review at http://www.clownlink.com) I highly recommend this show for anybody who wants to see a great show in NY this December.  It’s amazing, awe-inspiring, and filled with spectacle [...]

I’m happy to say that I’m the dad of the day at The Parent du Jour!   In case you don’t know, The Parent Du Jour is an online book featuring 365 moms and dads, who answer questions about themselves and their work (and play) as parents.  I tried to answer the questions pretty honestly, [...]