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Why Did I Have Kids?

May 26, 2020 by acrockofschmidt 2 Comments

vintage drawing of kids playing around a fire

Why did I have kids? I suspect this question is asked a lot more often than usual these days. Self-isolation and home-schooling have thrown most parenting routines for a loop the last two months. Even stay-at-home parents are uttering exasperated, “I didn’t sign up for this shit!” Or, in the case of veteran at-home parents […]

Filed Under: Dad Schmidt, Deep Schmidt Tagged With: daycare, heroes, kids, parenting, reproduction

Kids Don’t Watch Enough TV

September 13, 2018 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

My kids don’t watch enough TV.  I know that’s a strange complaint to make, not to mention one filled with irony.  I am, after all, a child of the television-as-babysitter era and the subsequent, and still vocal, kids-watch-too-much-tv backlash.  By all accounts, every misstep in my life is attributable to the hours I spent each […]

Filed Under: Funny Schmidt Tagged With: cartoons, kids, tablets, television, TV

The Cult of Minor Hockey

October 12, 2017 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

Orgasm face.  We’ve all witnessed one.  If not upon our partner’s face then surely in the bathroom mirror.  There are even a lucky few who have adorned one whilst simultaneously witnessing one.  It’s an embarrassing and ironically painful-looking facial contortion signifying the penultimate in human pleasure.  And each September, it’s also a face found upon […]

Filed Under: Sports Schmidt Tagged With: Canada, hockey, kids, minor hockey, sports

Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park – review

June 22, 2017 by acrockofschmidt 2 Comments

And the wind cries, “who the hell would want to live here?!?!”  This is what courses through my mind every time we head to Southern Alberta for camping.  If you’re going south of Calgary you just can’t avoid the wind.  Places like Lethbridge and Pincher Creek are famous for it and for good reason.  Those […]

Filed Under: Camping Schmidt Tagged With: Alberta, beach, camping, First Nations, Hoodoos, kids, Writing-on-Stone

My Life Is A Song #96

February 17, 2017 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

One night in St. Jacobs, the old fable of the City Mouse and the Country Mouse played out in real life within the bland, beige box that was my childhood bedroom.  I, as you rightly presume, starred as the Country Mouse. It was 1985, most likely later March or possibly early April, and a rather […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: '80s, Eighties, hockey, kids, radio, Woolwich

13 Bits of Advice for Future Stay At Home Dads

February 1, 2017 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

A few weeks from now I mark my ninth anniversary of being a stay-at-home dad, or SAHD if you’re really into horrible acronyms.  That is damn near a decade!  I’m also well past those demanding first years of my children’s lives, those years before the glorious respite that is grade school.  The ones that society […]

Filed Under: Dad Schmidt Tagged With: fatherhood, homemaker, kids, parenthood, sahd, staty-at-home dad

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