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“Well, Ted, you’re certainly coming up in the world. What’s the idea of playing golf with not one, but two caddies!”
“Oh, it was my wife’s idea.”
“Your wife?”
“Yeah,” answers Ted, “She thought I should spend more time with the kids.”

The young mother skeptically examined a new educational toy.
“Isn’t it rather complicated for a small boy?” she asked the salesclerk.
“It’s designed to adjust the tot to live in today’s world, madam,” the shop assistant replied. “Any way he tries to put it together is wrong.”

My littlest - Matthew - is 5 today.
Happy birthday Matt.

It’s a fact. Without any formal psychological training, I’ve develped a new psychological theorem. I’ve discovered a syndrome - Parental deafness.
Basically it works like this. Parent is stressed. Parent is hassled. Parent is at end of tether and if doesn’t get some peace soon will go bezerk with a shotgun or a variety of sharp [...]

Matt’s done his homework. He had a strip of paper which was cut from a sheet of A4 (29.7cm long). He measured 4 items, and had to say if they were larger or smaller than the paper. Here are the results:

The trailer from his toy truck: smaller
Matt’s Thomas the Tank Engine torch: smaller
Daddy’s bike: [...]

Matt (the youngest of the Hippy’s brood) had his first day at “big school” today. He’s 4.
He only went in for the morning (9 am until 11:45), but it wore the little tyke out. He’s been yawning all afternoon.
He’s obviously settled in well. When asked what he did today he replied “I don’t know” [...]