I talk to my kids a lot - a LOT - about taking deep breathes and the need to relax. I do this mainly when they are frustrated with my wife and I or when one of the other kids take their toys or when, you know, the apple isn't perfectly apple-shaped. But they also see me doing stretches and Yoga type stuff and taking deep breaths myself. But sometimes my emotions get the best of me. I had one of those types of days this week. One of the days where despite all my adultness, the pressures of life and child-rearing get the best of me. And sometimes, my adult knowledge will lead me to see things in a different light than you see it. Sometimes, I'm sad to say, kids, I'm going to fail. You will fall, as one of you did recently, for no obvious reasons in that funny way that you sometimes do. It will be a short, soft fall and I'll know you are OK because I saw the fall. All my training in falls and physics will tell me you are OK. I'll laug...
We tried for one, and we ended up with a bushel of fun.