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When Parents Leave The Burn Book Out

Posted on 09/27/2012 by Backpacking Dad

On one day each week, Erin’s kindergarten has an early dismissal, right around lunchtime. This is also a day I keep Adrian home from preschool, so I meet Erin at her classroom with Adrian, a lunch, and a picnic blanket, and we hang out and eat lunch next to the playground. Erin and Adrian will…

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Freerunning for Five-Year Olds: Trading Patty-cake for Parkour

Posted on 09/23/2012 by Backpacking Dad

Erin is a born daredevil. When she was a baby, she would commando-crawl to the edge of her play spaces, finding doors and staircases leading to new worlds. She was so fast as a commando she never really bothered crawling upright. She passed quickly from crawling to running, and then the world was her oyster….

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How to Improvise Cool Ramps for Your Toy Cars Out of a BirchBox Box

Posted on 09/20/201209/20/2012 by Backpacking Dad

Emily gets those Birchbox packages in the mail. They’re full of lotions and fragrances and things like that. They come in durable cardboard boxes. We have lots of them, accumulating in a pile in our craft area. Adrian and I were playing with some of his cars today, and I decided that he needed some…

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