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By: All Entries: What I Learned From Vacations | Middle Zone Musings

All Entries: What I Learned From Vacations | Middle Zone Musings — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:21:17 +0000

[...] From Vacation, by GL Hoffman at What Would Dad Say? … in Sedona, by Troy Worman at Orbit Now! … Vacations, by Pete Aldin at Freaked Out Fathers … Have Kids Will Travel: What I Learned, by Joe of Fathered [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:29:23 +0000

Yay! Thanks FOF!
#3 has you joining my bandwagon.
Kids are better off with parents who appreciate their relationship as much as (or even more than at times) their kids.
Feed the relationship tank with time together and there’s more love and grace to share around later!

By: Joanna Young

Joanna Young — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:06:37 +0000

Good tips – thanks. I think we really need to learn from our kids how to switch off and have fun. It just comes so naturally to them, doesn’t it? My 5 year old nephew has just been staying with me for part of his summer holiday. We’d been watching something together on TV and when it finished he wandered off. I asked him what he was going to do. He looked at me oddly. “Play” (of course) And he happily filled the next half hour in a totally unstructured way, zooming around with planes and cars and associated plastic objects.

A lesson for all of us there methinks.
Joanna

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 01:21:26 +0000

Re: #2: For some reason, this is extremely hard for me to do. It’s selfish, but true: I have an agenda for ME. When kids don’t cooperate, I get all cranky. When I’m able to let go of my agenda, we all have a much better time. Even knowing that, it’s hard to do.

By: themolk

themolk — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:05:09 +0000

“What About Bob” is like one of the best comedy films ever… up there with “Ghostbusters” and “Groundhog Day”…