Life moves fast with a 5-year-old. Over the weekend he rode his bike without training wheels. I just let go of the seat and he took off like he had been riding his whole life. Starting and stopping is not the smoothest, but we’ll work on that. On day 10 my wife accompanied him to [...]
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If you are going to do the social networking / social media “thing” for business (and today, you must), it’s an excellent idea to ensure that you are being effective. When it comes to Twitter, being effective can be measured various ways and there is a convenient tool to help you – Twitalyzer. Twitalyzer will [...]
The ride to school gets easier and easier, despite my son’s opinion that I “broke” his bike. It seems he doesn’t like to be able to ride with both training wheels clearing the ground at once. He would rather just lean to one side and let the training wheel support him without his having to [...]
Our son had a hard time leaving Mom again this morning. But as he rides his bike he forgets his troubles. It helped that I adjusted his training wheels. I had been frustrated how he always leaned to the right – sometimes putting so much weight on the right training wheel that his peddling resulting [...]
On our ride to school this morning my son wept, saying, “I hate school.” If he weren’t so dang cute I would have teared up myself. I told him to tell his teacher and she would help. He replied through the sobbing, “Nobody can help. Only Mommie.” But that upset lasted only as long as [...]
Oh, the dreaded and inevitable whine: “I don’t want to go to school today.” We’ve started that now. Interchangable with: “When will school be over?” I don’t respond to the second complaint. The truth would be unbearable for a 5-year-old. My son informed me last night, “You can get lunch from school if you don’t [...]