Next step, get him to bring you a coaster.

My son, 3, has a cousin aged 9 who is right in the know-it-all phase. She’s always trying to educate him and he loves winding her up. The other day she was trying to explain aunt-uncle-cousin relationships, but he wouldn’t say “you’re my cousin” the way she kept coaching. He kept saying “you’re my toaster! You’re my…

The little goon came up to me one day and thanked me for “the eighteen apples”. When I asked what he meant, he burst out laughing and said “that was a joke, you silly billy!” His first joke, punchline and all <3

We have a balance going right now that largely grew out of circumstance and lack of money. We don’t have live TV because we can’t afford it, so if the little guy wants to watch something he has to choose from the DVDs we already have in the house. We don’t have tablets, just a computer. My wife has a smartphone…

I’m always disappointed that “The Hall of the Mountain King” is almost universally played solely as an orchestral piece without the shrieking, bloodthirsty choir.

Popsicles or ice lollies are a good way to use up half-eaten pots of yogurt and fruit that might be bruised or funny looking (if you have a child who is picky about wanting a “good one”). We started doing this when I looked in the fridge and saw 5 unfinished yogurts with the spoons sticking out. Blitz them in a…

It sure looks it! Thanks.

What film is that from?

I haven’t thought about the Cats musical in 30 years, and now I’m building my wall of crazy with the photos and string...

The sims being able to be gay, without commentary or punishment, was so important to me because I came out to my parents at almost exactly the same time as the game debuted. I played endlessly, roleplaying the kind of harmonious future family life I aspired to but was pretty sure wasn’t going to be possible.

My wife met me today after work to do the grocery shopping, and when she asked how my day went I couldn’t help bursting out “he would not stop talking!”

Around 3 1/2 my niece went through a stage where she would come up to an adult and ask “why is/I am I ____?” Always a question about herself. Why am I holding this toy? Why am I wearing this shirt? Why is my hair blonde? If you tried to answer, she would just kept asking and asking until she became volanically angry.
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My great-uncle used to torment his white mid-European family by implying there was African ancestry in their past, the genetic cause of their dark curly hair. This was such a repeated point of conflict that there was a violent falling out eventually. My nanna, his sister who is still alive, absorbed all of this and is…

The largest town in this county (14,000 people, a major hub for rural Wales) has a tall hill on the north border covered in gorse and copses of trees. This is a hippy-ish area and supposedly couples go up there on Mayday to have sex and dance naked under the moonlight.

Ours has “Cardiac Hill”, which has a very steep incline, where people supposedly die trying to walk up it. There is a T intersection at the bottom, and an equally popular myth was that bikers would zoom down trying to get maximum speed and get splatted by traffic

We had a wonderful no-nonsense retired nurse teaching our prenatal class, who was very frank that we would have periods when we hated our baby,our spouses, our pets, the postman...

Our elderly nextdoor neighbor died deeply estranged from his sons for many years. They hastily put their late father’s house on the market for practically nothing and left their mum’s ashes in above-ground backyard memorial. I was home on maternity at the time and so many people came over, after visiting with real-esta…

That’s very interesting! If it’s true it would explain a lot. Thanks for sharing it

The goober “reads” to the cat all the time. He can’t actually read yet, but he remembers enough and fills in the gaps from the pictures. Or sometimes just with nonsense, the cat doesn’t seem to know the difference anyway.

I hadn’t heard of this, can you explain what happened in a little more detail?