Overprotective Parents

An interesting story was re-reported by UPI that made me want to stand up and clap for the state of Texas.  In Texas a hearing will be held to determine whether to remove a pregnant woman,  Marlise Munoz from life support.    Marlise has been determined to be brain dead.  Apparently …

I remember my brother mentioning to me how he wanted to be the parent that supported teachers with their decisions rather than challenge them every time his child disagreed with something, or they received a bad grade.  It can be tough to be a parent these days.  For some reason …

Just when I think I got this parenting thing figured out.  Just when I think I haven’t missed anything.  Just when I think I know all the strengths and weaknesses of my children I realize how much more there is to learn.   It has actually been through my children participating …

“Mom, there is wrestling sign ups tomorrow.  Can girls wrestle mom?”, my daughter asked. “Umm technically they can wrestle”, said my wife with a vague nervous tone (you could tell my wife didn’t want to necessarily encourage the idea). My daughter then turns to me and asks, “Dad can I …

As I was doing some show prep for the American Dad Podcast I came across an article that discussed how a mom made her two children make their lunches each morning before school.   The woman’s child asked all of her friends if they had to make their lunch but none …

In my last article I wrote about keeping promises. More importantly keeping promises to your children.  To be honest I can say that I let my kids down with some broken promises.  Though I knew it was important to me as a child to have my parents keep their promises, …

I managed to make a few promises to my kids recently.  They weren’t huge promises but they were meaningful.  I promised to be at my children’s soccer practices and games.  I promised this to them and to myself.  It means a lot for me and to my children to be at these …

To say I was shocked and confused when I read that a Sacramento couple had their 5 month old child taken from them by child protective services is an understatement.  Apparently local law enforcement forcibly took the child from his parents on the order of CPS. The parents Alex and …

On a windy, cold and rainy Saturday my kids had their first soccer game.  I was indifferent as to what would happen during the game.  In other words I really didn’t care whether my kids won or lost.  I was much more interested in how my kids dealt with the game, competition, …

I consider myself to be pretty observant.  It’s actually what a do for a living being a private investigator.  And before being a private investigator I worked in the loss prevention field, and before that I was in the Army.    I like to people watch and analyze the behavior of …