My middle little dude was starting to hate school. He was entering eighth grade, had only a few friends and was struggling mightily with Algebra I. And when I say struggling mightily, I mean David vs. Goliath type struggle and he was the little dude and we didn’t happen to have a rock or sling [...]
A Change of Scenery
October 11th, 2008 · No Comments · A Dude's Guide to Kids
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I Didn’t Major in Education
September 4th, 2008 · No Comments · A Dude's Guide to Life
In fact, I specifically tried to stay as far away from that stuff as possible since it raised the dreaded specter of me having to do actual math that didn’t involve trying to figure out how many cans were in a case. (24, just in case you were, you know, wondering.) And, yet, here I [...]
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