“It’s OK, When You Have Two, They Play Together!” by Simon Pinkerton

Transcript from a fun day with Dad . . .

“Lesson Learned” by Debra H. Goldstein

When the doorbell rang, I almost didn’t answer it. I wasn’t expecting anyone at seven on a Tuesday night . . .

“Party Pooper” by Janine Annett

Potty training is a bitch.
 It should be easy, right? How hard could it actually be? . . .

“The Adventures of JR” by Kimisha Thompson-Hitchins

JR was a precocious boy who loved to watch TV . . .

“Synchronicity Two” by Chuck Nwoke

“I’m night-weaning Emeka,” my wife Anna alerted me when I met her in the park after a run . . .

“Veinte-y-dos” by Robert Arellano

All InTur would rent them was a Lada. Carlos was struggling with a sticky clutch when the tunnel’s sickening yellow glow exploded into the hostile glare of a Havana afternoon . . .

“I Have No Toys” by Samuel Murphy

I have no toys.

I was hoping that at this stage of my life, as both husband and father, I would have some pretty cool toys. But I don’t. Instead I have four daughters, and this is why I have no toys . . .

“Surrounded” by Brian Lance

Are you a parent going through the Terrible Twos? Did you live through them and survive? Terrible Twosdays is a place to commiserate over the unending shenanigans of your Darling Children (as the online parenting communities say). Nonfiction stories will be considered, so long as names have been changed to protect the guilty. Inspired by […]