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Poop and the San Francisco Unified School District

doodaddy — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 20:05:09 +0000

It’s astonishing how quickly I’ve come to define parenting in terms of things I’ve missed. Like: my kids have never pooped in the bathtub. Now isn’t that an adventure squandered? Claudia isn’t three yet, so maybe I’m counting my poop-free chickens a trifle prematurely. But she’s an open book when it comes to bodily functions, [...]

Blackalicious

doodaddy — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:29:00 +0000

Fern got this cute book on our last vacation -- Pinkalicious -- about a girl who eats too many pink cupcakes and turns, well, pink. Except she couldn't leave it at that -- Blackalicious beckoned.

Yet more evidence that my daughter is a teenager

doodaddy — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:13:55 +0000

Fern’s latest pattern is to sleep in until 10:30 or later, fall asleep by 9:30 (which has always been her usual), then be up in the middle of the night for a two-hour tea and cracker break. Oddly enough, that’s not unlike my sleep pattern in college (especially the semester I had an 8 a.m. [...]

Nursery School Spy

doodaddy — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:27:00 +0000

Well, it took a week of nursery school, but Boo finally asked me about my sex life in front of all the other parents. Solo free climb up Mount Lots-of-Rocks We were sitting in the schoolyard at pickup time, surrounded by a frothy mass of child and parent and stroller. As I witlessly pursued the [...]

Blood and Crushing

doodaddy — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:23:56 +0000

Things were going fine on Boo’s first day of school until the blood. Sure, there was the usual craziness of introductions. Meeting a dozen new people (most of whom I’ll know for the next two or twenty years) was a tough memory game even for me. For three-year old Boo, all the names and faces [...]

The Last Playdate

doodaddy — Fri, 29 May 2009 23:40:25 +0000

After months of agonizing about school — no-to-preschool, yes-to-preschool, crap-where’s-the-application-preschool — Boo finally starts at the local co-op nursery school on Monday. I’m full of that same excited-yet-anxious feeling I got before my first day at a new school. I know that a new chapter begins just a couple of days from now, but I’m [...]

In Which I Cause Boo to Undergo Pain Rather Than Fight With the Paperwork Lady Any More

doodaddy — Fri, 08 May 2009 08:45:17 +0000

We’re preschool-bound (yay!), so I had to wade through a stack of school enrollment forms. It was my first time through that paperwork jungle, and I was proudly undaunted by the dozen or so pages. The worst was deciding whether I’d rather tend the garden or sort art supplies at the school (it’s a co-op). [...]

Nursery School Dropout

doodaddy — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:00:00 +0000

I am not a fearful parent. Apart from a recurring nightmare in which my gargantuan daughter is recruited to play for the Utah Jazz (I mean, really — jazz? In Utah?), I don’t worry about her future all that much. Things will work out as they should. But I gave myself a huge scare a [...]

When did I become a preschool floozy? Oh, right.

doodaddy — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:09:29 +0000

I should run for president; I’ve got the essential waffling skills. I was against the Bridge to Preschool before I was for it. At the moment, we’re for it, having found this kick-ass co-op nursery school that (despite having made us sit for two-and-a-half hours in toddler chairs) seems like heaven on earth, preschoolishly speaking. [...]

Relax. You Probably Did Something Right Today.

doodaddy — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:52:18 +0000

A million times, I tell ya. Remember how comfortable Working Mom were with the decision to skip preschool for Boo this year? We’re at that tricky 2-and-a-half, which just seemed a little too young, and besides, since I’m fantastically lucky and get to stay home every day, I can do a lot of preschooling myself, [...]