I got a bit nervous recently when a former colleague told me that her 16-month-old daughter was counting to 15 and could recite the alphabet.

My son, a month older, knew the letter A and the number 5. He had to know five – his grandmother counts to five with him every time she sees him [...]

My son is not a great sharer. Who is at 17 months?

But he has high expectations of other little folks – in his mind they should all welcome the opportunity to share their scooters, and balls and water bottles, or whatever else he sets his sights on.

Walking through Central Park yesterday and Saturday no toy [...]

I spent most of my single 20s and 30s wandering around Central Park on summer weekends. And there was a small hill next to the lake on the west side just south of 77th Street where people would gather to listen to Dave Ippolito, better known as That Guitar Man (or That Shirtless Guitar Man [...]

My father in-law, who is a brilliant doctor, worried a few months ago that his only grandchild might have a hearing problem. It seemed that when he and my mother-in-law sat with the little boy, he wouldn’t respond to the simplest of commands.

He has nothing to worry about. Turns out it was just stubbornness, not [...]

We got back to our apartment yesterday afternoon following the longest trip away for our toddler, a five-day trip out of state to my parents’ house.

While there he went on several adventures and got to know his 6-month-old cousin. He climbed stairs which he doesn’t have at home. He grabbed a broom every chance he [...]

So my wife and I were trying to figure out last week how to dress up our 15-month-old son for Purim, the festive holiday that commemorates how the Jews were saved in ancient Persia.

She spent quite a long time online and came up with some possible costumes: a bumble-bee, a cuddly lion, a UPS delivery [...]

We took our toddler to a lab yesterday for what turned out to be an anything-but-routine blood-lead shot.

This is a shot that engenders much fear in parents because it tells them whether their kids’ toys or apartment paint are shedding dangerous levels of lead. But that wasn’t my focus when I realized that the shot [...]

I enjoyed Jorge’s blog about taking his son to his first Metallica concert.

My son is a bit too young to appreciate Metallica. He’s 14-months-old. Although he does stomp around the apartment like he’s ready to smash a guitar or bite off the head of a chicken.

No, Laurie Berkner is more his speed. If you don’t [...]

When my son was just a few months old, our pediatrician promised he’d be sleeping through the night by the time he was 6-months old.

Okay maybe she didn’t promise. But we should have had her define ‘through the night’. His version is nothing like what we were led to believe.

Now 13 months, he goes to [...]

There’s that recurring fear that I’m a bit too old to be a first time parent. Last week, there was one such moment.
We took my son for a playdate at a preschool we hope to send him in September. He had just turned 1!!! When I was a kid, I didn’t go to school until a [...]

I’m relatively new to blogging and almost as new to fatherhood. So right off the bat I welcome all suggestions, advice, criticisms and are-you-crazy!!!!!s you can muster. Keep ‘em coming…
One thing I’ll never forget from my son’s first week was a shopping trip I made to Manhattan’s Upper Breast Side, a small boutique devoted to [...]