James Bosma, previously the director of marketing at Bullfrog Power, has three kids 6 and under. James has been blogging about life as an at-home dad since 2009 and is now preparing to launch Toyhuggers -- an online toystore.
I stumbled across a new book called Nurture Shock: New Thinking About Children. When I saw the author’s name — Po Bronson — I was happy to see he’d been thoughtful enough to write a new one just for me, so I picked it up.
As soon as you question why your kids each need five or six pairs of pyjamas when you were always okay with one, you’d better be ready to answer why you need 6 video games for your Nintendo DS when Pong was perfectly good when you were ten.
“Almost all bears discover, in a little while, that what they’ve outgrown makes quite a pile.”
…according to the inverse behavioural rule of shopping with toddlers, the longer the trip, the worse my kids behave. If we’ve reached 45 minutes, my 3-year-old is running back and forth to the cart, filling it with anything that has a colourful label and my one-year-old is busy opening said packages and tossing them back out of the cart.
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