Catharsis of the Bogue

Oddities, Profundities, Profanities and Dad Stuff

Category: Family (Page 12 of 21)

News flash: The Ball is still a good toy!

March 24, 2014 / / 0 Comments
Colorful Super ball, home

Image via Wikipedia

There are some people out there who would cringe at the thought of giving a kid a toy that was not filled with batteries or circuitry.  There are times I am not sure if there is anything but an electronic toy still available.  It seems darn near everything has a battery in it.

My kids have an unplugged Sunday every week.  It seems to be fairly good at making them realize there is more to the world than electronics.  this said by the man sitting in front of the laptop.  Anyway, I have been watching my youngest son a lot lately.  He needs to be watched as he is only 20 months old.

But here is the thing, he picks up a lot of things to play with.  He does play with the other kids gameboys, and he likes the TV, but his favorite toy is a ball.  A simple rubber ball.  He doesn’t care if it is the cow one, the princess one, the blue one, the pink one or the football.  He rolls the ball and laughs and laughs.  There is nothing in the world that is worth more than a childs unconditional joy.

It got me thinking though, why have we lost so much of our ability to play with something simple?  2000 BC, Og picked up a rock that was round and tossed it to his kid.  The kid pushed it back, and laughed.  This went on for hours until Oog came by and saw how much fun they were having so he joined in.  Pretty soon everyone was playing.  Years later we have inflated rubber balls.  And all was good.

Go out and roll a ball.  Pick up a stick and throw it, make it a sword, a magic wand, a hammer.  Watching a 1 year old play with simple objects is fun to watch.  It really makes you think and try to get some of that ultimate joy back in your life.

Just something to think about.

-Justin

Enhanced by Zemanta

Dad’s Are SUPPOSED To Do Laundry!

March 24, 2014 / / 3 Comments

I am sure you are getting sick of me yapping on about how I am a stay at home dad.  What can I say, it’s what I do.

Today I want to address a topic that I have mentioned before in a short Migraines and Laundry series.  This post will be short and to the point.  Even if you do not stay home, Dad’s are supposed to help with laundry!  It probably will not even give you a migraine.

I don’t want to get preachy here and I don’t want to have a bunch of  “help your woman” posts but, there are some things that need to be addressed.  When I first got married I had hardly ever done laundry.  My mom did it all for us and I was darn near clueless on how to load and wash clothes.

There came a point in the first year of my marriage when both my wife and I were going to college and working where I had to learn to do laundry or go without clothes.  Simple as that.  And guess what, laundry is easy to learn and easy to do.  If I could only get the drive to fold I would be golden.  Don’t like to fold.

If you have kids, you will know what this next section is about.  If you don’t have kids and think you may have ahandle on Laundry, you are wrong.  No could be wrong, no maybe wrong, you are WRONG.  Kids, even little tiny ones, generate so much laundry you will wonder why your washing machine doesn’t say tilt at least once a week.

It just gets worse as they get older but your saving grace will be when they get 8 or 9 and can help with the laundry.  I have one there now.  And she is going to get all of the new baby’s clothes.  Bwahahahaaha!!

Seriously, laundry is a big task.  It is hard to keep up on.  It is never ending.  It is necessary.  If the machine is sitting idle, go throw in a load.

I’d love to hear your comments below!  after that sign up for my mailing list!

Thanks for reading

-Justin

Again and again

March 24, 2014 / / 0 Comments

Are you like me?  do you have a bunch of posts or post ideas in draft form that you just can’t seem to get done?  I have had one that is now 5 months in the working and still not finished.  I was going to finish it today, but, now I am not.  Today, I wanted to write about a quote that I found.

Now looking back on this blog, my most popular post was a podcast based on another quote, “Light a Candle instead of Cursing the Darkness.”    That one is about doing.  DOING.  Doing something.  Don’t complain about what you are given, do something about it.

Today, another quote with the same message.  Ready?  “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.”  How is that?  Another, go out there, and do something.  Go do something positive in the face of what previously was considered diversity.  Do I do this?  Sometimes.  Should I do it more?  Most definitely.

So, how do you go about turning the adversity into the positive?  Most days I don’t know.  Some days I only want the adversity so I don’t seem so bad.  I don’t know what the answer is, the deep part of yourself that you have to find in order to go out there and do the positive.  I have been trying to find it for 39 years now, and I still don’t know.

I have been up and down my whole life, trying to find the positives, and, when I do find those, keep those positives in mind to create more.  I can’t say that it has worked, but it is there somewhere.  One of these days I will find out how to keep a hold of it and not piss it away like I have so many times.

How do you deal with adversity?  How do you go about dancing in the metaphorical rain?  Let me know, I need the help.

-Justin

« Older posts Newer posts »

© 2024 Catharsis of the Bogue

Theme by Anders Noren — Up ↑