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Ok here is real potential. My son Jake and he is only just over 2 years old and here he is making a music video!! Read the rest of this entry »
OK I’ve been super busy lately and had no time to post on my blog. Over the past week I have interviewed and made hiring decisions for 4 new jobs for Rainbow Songs. In a business that employs just less than 10 employees this is huge.
So I’m gonna do what all young fathers do when this happen.
Post cute pictures of my kids:
The boys like to “help” in the garden.
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I had a really nice experience earlier this week that I just have to share: My son Jake was on his way home from swimming lessons with his grandmother and he forgot his “Thomas the Tank Engine” lunch box on the streetcar.
Jake likes order.
Jake likes Thomas more than order.
Jake is 4.
So you can imagine how upset he would be about losing this prized possession. Read the rest of this entry »
This is a continuation of the Children and Consumerism.
Ok my kid is obsessed with trains and by default Thomas the Tank Engine.
We wonder how kids get so into consuming things so quickly?
We do it to them.
Case and point: Jake’s 4th birthday party last weekend. Read the rest of this entry »
It seems to me that things have changed a lot since I was a kid. There is just more stuff than their used to be. It just keeps piling into our lives and it seems there is nothing we can do about it.
Last week was my son Jake’s 4th birthday. So far, my wife and I have tried hard to keep our kids away, as much as possible, from the constant bombardment of advertising. We don’t let him watch regular tv and we try not to expose him to too much branding. As a result Jake thinks that Ronald McDonald is just a clown and nothing more. In fact we have never been to McDonalds with him and he does not know what it is. When we went out for his 4th birthday last Thursday he asked to go out to our local Thai restaurant. He even likes the spicy asparagas. Hooray for Jake!
Anyway you still can’t escape it advertising is everywhere and Jake has an Achilles heel. He loves trains.
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