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06/29/10

With increasing frequency, when I finish a blog post, I look back on it with amusement, then with shame, and then I realize that while my blog is supposed to be about bilingualism, what I’m learning and sharing with my audience of 4 is really a set of basic and universal principles of parenting. But I already paid a whole two years of web hosting in advance so I might as well keep writing. One of those basic and universal parenting principles (or facts, rather) is that, just when you think your child is on his or her way to mastering something, they throw you a curveball. You’ll be bragging to your friends about how your toddler has the sphincter and bowel control of…

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So True!

06/25/10

Writing this post is awkward because it forces me to admit that much of my inspiration (read: desire to steal the idea) for starting this blog came from reading Metrodad — an incredibly funny, honest, and tender account of parenthood from a young father in New York City. I don’t know if he is the author of this cartoon, but I keep showing it all my friends who have two young children (which are many — we’re all just at that age). And of course, if you’re a parent, you totally get the humor in this — having two young children is tremendously challenging and exhausting, but at the same time, we all agree that we wouldn’t change it for the world. We just…

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The Code’s Been Broken

06/24/10

I’m so busted! And busted on something that I wasn’t even aware I was doing: I had been taking advantage of my wive’s limited knowledge of Spanish to allow myself to get lazy in my parental discipline without her finding out about it. I didn’t count on my beautiful lady’s brilliant mind and overlooked the fact that in these last 3 years that we’ve been parents together and I’ve been speaking Spanish around the house, she has developed an understanding of the language beyond my expectations. And that’s of course wonderful and admirable, but it sucks for me at times. The other day, when we were all sitting in the porch and Gabriel was starting to fall into that whinny-tired-toddler zone where it becomes almost…

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