Babble

My own parents are great folks and did a great job of raising me, which is why I am the indisputably wonderful person I am today. But my wife and I have, of course, made some choices about our own children that differ from the ones my parents made with me and my sister. Two come to mind. The first is...

Ok, one more of my guys...

Here's a thread for vids of your kids... This one is my recent favorite.

Our Lads weaned themselves, probably at about 18 months. My wife was crushed by it; she'd wanted the experience to go on longer. But they were ready to move on, and since it was motivated by them, we respected it. They're healthy, happy, good eaters. One of my guys has a bit of a dairy allergy, so calcium...

I think the Santa Question is less than black-and-white. We are not telling the Lads that the Big Dude is real, but we are not leaving him out of the holiday, either. They love Curious George, Dora, etc., without having to believe these characters actually exist. If they want to believe in the whole...

RachelZ -- Those are all very cool names. We considered Augustus and Octavian as Romaphile middle names, too, but all produced weird initials: MOO, POO, MAO. (My wife lived in China for a year so I found the last rather amusing, but still, killed millions of people. Probably not so cool.)

We took our Lads to Costa Rica when they were about 21 months old, an effort to go as far as we could on the reduced-rate-for-laps before they turned two. Two three-hour flights as well as about eight hours of delays on the way there, four hours on the way back. Unfortunately, I have no real tips to...

I'm Peter (hence my creative user name), a 32-year-old, happily married dad to twin Lads Miles and Porter (9/27/04) in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of D.C. I'm a nocturnal pseudojournalist, an editor for a company that compiles summaries of news for various clients based on what's in the papers...

Since joining the Legion o' Parents and meeting all sorts of other hip new mater/paterfamilii, I've learned of lots of great names with great stories behind them. How did you pick your children's names? Since we decided our twin Lads would have my surname, we wanted first names from my wife's family...

I gave up on discipline, and opted to instead teach all the Park Kids how to be bad. That way, my Lads look good by comparison.