Archive for the ‘Family’ Category

Deconstructing the classics, Part 1: The Very Hungry Caterpillar

January 8th, 2010

Reading a story to Aralyn

My take on the logic and science of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and what we can all learn from this story.

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Becoming human

December 26th, 2009

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Watching our daughter go through world-expanding experiences, and how that is teaching me to do scary things every day to expand my world as well.

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5 things MacGyver can teach us about parenting

December 22nd, 2009

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5 things I learned about parenting from my childhood exposure to the awesome series MacGyver.

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Good parents vaccinate their kids. Or they don’t.

November 28th, 2009

What our experience with vaccinations taught me about all the gray areas of parenthood.

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A sign of things to come

October 24th, 2009

Reflecting on the first five weeks with our colicky baby. It's hard, but we will get through it!

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“Your lives are going to change” and other colossal understatements about parenting

September 30th, 2009

Aralyn's first trip to the doctor

Reflections on my first two weeks of Fatherhood.

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Welcome to the world, Aralyn Leigh

September 18th, 2009

Share Yesterday at 5:09pm the beautiful Aralyn Leigh Van Der Merwe said hi to the world with one magnificant scream.  Aralyn means woman with song, and in her less than 24 hours on earth, she has already proven that she has the lungs to go along with the name (no, we did not get much

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What photos of the past taught me about being a good father

September 6th, 2009

How looking back at old family photos taught me four important lessons about being a good father.

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The fear of diaper changing

July 22nd, 2009

More from the daddy journals... My perspective on the daunting task of diaper changing. Newborns use *how* many diapers per day?

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An open letter to the Third Trimester

July 5th, 2009

A letter to ask my wife's third trimester to be really nice to her, and pass on a message to the teenage years as well.

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