You want your children to learn as much as they can. You want to give them as many opportunities as possible. So you send them away on school overnight trips. With this in mind, my son prepared for two wonderful travel opportunities in the span of two weeks. Of course, the day before he leaves, something tragic happens in his family,... Read more
Posts Tagged ‘parenting’
An Ocean Away
April 13 | Posted by Vinny | Marriage and Family Tags: children, fatherhood, france, kids, Marriage and Family, parenting, travelEssential Questions
March 29 | Posted by Vinny | Marriage and Family Tags: children, Faith, health, kids, Marriage and Family, parenting, prayer, religionMy friend Chris, who is writing curriculum for his music students, is crafting Essential Questions for his lessons. Essential Questions are those which, if you have developed and taught your lesson well, all will be able to answer at the end. He believes educators must also ask themselves Essential Questions as they do their jobs. I believe, especially of late,... Read more
Family Resolutions for 2009
January 8 | Posted by Vinny | Marriage and Family Tags: children, dieting, fatherhood, health, Marriage and Family, music, parenting, weightTaking a blog hiatus means I’m a little behind in my blogging to-do list. I thought it would be a good idea to set some goals for myself in each of the core areas of this blog. You know, offer a little focus to my quest for self-improvement. Resolution 1- Lose Weight and Improve General Health A few years ago, I weighed... Read more
Band Parents
November 13 | Posted by Vinny | Marriage and Family Tags: band, cheerleading, children, football, kids, little league, parentingMy wife and I are Band Parents. Not only am I a Band Parent, but as a music teacher, I’ve met a lot of band parents. They are… different. They are not cheerleader parents killing another flute player’s mom for a solo. They are not Little League parents who yell at the director after some kid blows the trumpet feature they think... Read more
Living the Divorced Life
November 6 | Posted by Vinny | Marriage and Family Tags: commuting, depression, divorce, fatherhood, parentingThis weekend, we had a house guest join us for a couple of weeks. We’re happy to have him (especially because it means my son gets to go to France next year) but it causes a bit of disarray (as a two-week house guest would cost for any household. I had a hard time finding a lot of my things.... Read more
Parental TV Controls and the DVD Hole
October 28 | Posted by Vinny | Technology Tags: controls, dvd, parenting, television, v-chipWe lock our televisions. We didn’t always do that, but since my wife started working full time, we’ve had a few issues with unattended television use. It’s not about the content (although my wife would like my son’s viewing to contain less violence) but time. Unattended the kids will watch television until they blob up into those immovable obese folks... Read more
Kids and Honesty
October 23 | Posted by Vinny | Marriage and Family Tags: children, honesty, kids, lying, parenting, truthWhy do kids lie? In my experience, kids lie for a variety of reasons. The most popular reasons are to avoid getting in trouble with adult authority figures or to make themselves sound better than they truly are. What I find especially intriguing is the flimsy lies that children think we’ll accept. You can catch a child in the same... Read more
