It's a tough time of year for parents, as kids are coming home from school disappointed that they didn't make the school spring sports team that they tried-out for. It's hard to have that right thing to say, especially when you are coming home from a long day of work with your own troubles. Perspective on both sides of the ball help in this situation.
My 3-year-old son has been a champ using his potty lately at home and at daycare and I didn't want to break the momentum yesterday, but when I took him to a basketball game at the Times Union Center all hell broke loose. When he told me he needed to go pee, I proudly took into one of the bathrooms, but was clearly ill-prepared for what to do once we got there.
It's always nice to have someone on the Capital Region Sunday program who is as committed to our community as this week's guest—Paula Gretzinger from the locally produced hit show "Parentology."
Free Beer and his wife are expecting twins early this summer.
There are two names that they are going back and forth between. Free Beer wants one of them; his wife wants the other.
Last week, a guy near Minneapolis, Brad Knudson, of Prior Lake, Minn., posted a video about two kids who bullied his daughter and used the n-word.
He explained that he called the kids' dad about it, but that the guy was a allegedly even bigger a-hole.