I still remember the password my family decided on, for an unfamiliar adult to recite to me or my brother if they needed to collect us in place of my parents. My parents also had “kidnap cards” prepared with our identifying physical traits, fingerprints and hair samples, ready to hand over to the police at a moments…

My baby, 5 months, is facinated by Gibbs on NCIS. She gets excited when he’s on screen and so upset when the camera cuts away.

A friend’s order had multiple unavailable foods, so he got 8lbs of roasted pumpkin seeds in substitution.

My son is obsessed with Phil Rosenthal, the host of food-tourism show ‘Somebody Feed Phil’. He devours (haha) episodes of Phil trying street food in Saigon, free range heiritage pork on country estates, octopus in Korea -

I never liked the freckles on the older human figures, probably because I didn’t know anyone with actual freckles growing up. It took me a silly long time to connect those big red spots with a facial feature - I thought they were chicken pox!

Setting aside the other films mentioned here, I’ve never been clear on how King Louie from ‘The Jungle Book’ is meant to be racist again African-Americans, when his performance, speech and song were all based around his voice actor, Louis Prima. Prima was Italian and one of the most famous singers and bandleaders in…

Meghan knows the rules. There is no tolerence for improv. You will follow the script exactly or you will repeat and repeat until correct, as dictated by the child. You will stay within the designated Fun Zone at all times.

Every individual performance is exciting and worthy of comment. It makes him so happy, I’ve never been able to be grinch enough to just... loose my mind and completely devour all the animals. Like a high-maintinence dog who’s been inside all day. Just big ol’ hunks of plastic in my teeth.

My son’s current is “do you want to see how this toy falls over/goes to sleep/lays down?” Contrary to my expectations, it does not involve things being thrown or slammed to the ground or any loud sound effects. Everything just very slowly, gently tips onto it’s side and lays still. Exactly the same way. Every single…

My son has a real love for poetry and rhyme. We’ve been reading Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, the majority of which are harmless. “Growltiger’s Last Stand”, however, is pretty anti-Chinese and... honestly I’m just not ready to have that conversation with a 4 year old. Fortunantly, the front half of the poem is…

Melania is 24 years younger and actually exercises, since Trump would abandon her the minute she put on an inch. The only reason her husband agreed to let her get pregnant was if she got her body “back” after delivery.

My aunt yelled at me once for lecturing my youngest cousin, who was trying to grab fruit off the cutting board while I was chopping it. I assume she was embarrassed that she missed her child almost going to the hospital with a missing finger.

I’ve yelled - full on yelled - at somone else’s kids only twice. One was a neighbour’s girl, who was sitting on an third-floor windowsill of their house with her legs dangling out. I properly let fly that she better get her butt inside before she hurt herself. The other was a boy in town, who kept jumping on and off…

Work like you don’t have kids, raise your kids like you don’t have to work.

(5) Trump dies, his death is seen by his base as a “deep state” assassination, and his “martyrdom” becomes the catalyst for the splintered factions of the right and ultra right to unite.

This is one of my biggest concerns. I don’t think he will die, but if he does he’s rabble-roused his armed followers into such a…

This week I dropped my son at school and then the baby had her vaccine jabs and check up, which didn’t end until 12. No point in going all the way home and then turning around and coming back for the 3pm pick-up, so I sat in a cafe that because of lockdown was almost empty besides me.

Trump is running for re-election not to get re-elected, but to stay solvent and out of prison.

Oh my god what’s wrong with the humans? Why do we need this much realism in the singing rodent movie?

Depends on the resturant. If they offer something simple or that comes in a managable portion, that I know he’ll like, we go with that instead of the kids menu. Sometimes my wife and I will ask for an extra plate and just carve a portion off our own meals.

Starting in middle school I had to take medication for ADD at midday every day, which meant leaving class briefly to walk to the nurse’s office. ADD was relatively new, along with the idea of integrating special-needs students into mainstream classes. Classmates noticed immediately that I kept stepping out, and since…