On our way home from seeing the Iron Man movie on Sunday (which totally ROCKED by the way!), Youngest Son (8 years old) begins to ask me about suicide and why people do it. As I’m fumbling for an answer, he begins to share about how he thinks it’s probably because they have so many problems [...]

I love it when kids mispronounce things. Especially in public. Like what happened at the park this morning…
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It’s one of those idyllic Australian summer mornings -although I’m sitting in the shade of a European tree - mild temperature, no cloud, slight cool breeze. Families playing happily around me. My son [...]

Took my own fantastic four (my 2 boys plus a friend each) to Fantastic Four: Rise of The Silver Surfer the other day. What a blast!
This movie has received lukewarm and critical reviews from movie critics and comic officiandos.
That’s usually a sign it’ll be good.
And it was. It had everything you look for in a [...]

I’m firmly middle-class and while I drop the odd swear-word, our household is neither a prissy one nor a cussin’ one.
But we live in a colorful world and speak a colorful language. So I wasn’t entirely surprised when my 7-year-old  asked me this morning, “Daddy, what does c**t mean?”
This is the lad who - as a [...]