Raising a toddler can make a dad feel a lot like a car salesman, particularly at mealtime.

There are a number of different ways to take in the Focus on the Family broadcast today. But before we get to all those ways you have an important decision to make, do you want to watch the episode, or just listen?

This week I got to participate in the preschool’s Donuts with Dad breakfast with the three-year-old Slugger. I’ve been going to these things for a few years now, and they are always a lot of fun. The Slugger was excited, I was excited, and there were donuts. Relally, what wasn’t to like.

Today, is the sixty-third anniversary of the patents of one of the greatest toys in history. Coincidentally, it is also one of the most profanity-inducing toys ever to hit the market.

Can I make one small request? As a father, and an author, who loves to buy his kids books, I am asking you to please stop publishing books with buttons that require batteries. Or at the very least all get together on what size battery you are going to use.

“Dad, when you were born did they even have playgrounds?”

The end of school this year meant that our six-year-old Zoologist was officially done with kindergarten. I have fond memories of kindergarten, after all it was three of the best years of my life, so I thought that I would ask him some questions about the experience. Things are a little different now.