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What a Dad Learned by being a Mother
This Mother’s Day my wife was unfortunately sick for the day and that meant I had to do everything (but breast feed!). I took our son for walks, played with as many toys as we could find, made all of our meals — and of course clean up afterwards… or clean as well as dads can.
I knew it wasn’t easy to be a mother, but I had no idea how exhausting it actually was. By the end of the day my back was sore, I was running out of things to entertain my son and absolutely ready for bed.
It gave me great respect for single parents who never get the breaks I’m used to… but more importantly it made me think about empathy. I learned so much about my wife’s day by literally walking in her shoes that I wondered how much I could learn about others through empathy. I thought about bad days with bosses, times friends let me down, off color remarks others made. Thinking about all of those situations, I realized there were probably good reasons why others acted the way the did… even if it’s not apparent to me.
I’ve decided not to take things as personally because everyone’s simply trying their hardest — and trying your hardest is far from being perfect.
Riddles for Kids
We’ve had so much fun making Short Poems for Kids every Tuesday that we decided to start making a new riddle for kids every Monday! They’ll all be funny with a silly picture to help you figure out the answer.
While Steve and I were talking about riddles, we started talking about our favorite riddles as a kid – that’s when Steve pulled out a folder from his desk drawer labelled “Riddles”. I shouldn’t be surprised how well documented and organized he is, but it always shocks me a little.
As a kid, he used to play school and many of the assignments he gave out were riddles. He got the idea because one of his favorite elementary school teachers gave him riddles as extra credit to solve every week. (He didn’t actually get extra points for solving them, she just knew he loved riddles).
I did not document any of my riddles from childhood, but I can still remember two of my favorite riddles:
NATASHA’S FAVORITE KID’S RIDDLES
What’s black and white and red all over?
If a man in a wet scuba suit is dead in a charred tree in the middle of a forest, how did he get there?
STEVE’S BEST RIDDLES FOR KIDS
POEM RIDDLE
I go around in circles,
but always go straight ahead.
I never ever complain,
no matter where I am lead
HARD KID’S RIDDLES
You heard me before
Yet you hear me again.
Then I die
Till you call me again?
I turn around once, what is our will not get in
I turn around again, what is in will not get out
Lighter than what I am made of
More of me is hidden, than is seen
I am only useful, when I am full
Yet I am always, full of holes
VERY HARD KID’S RIDDLES
John and Mary are on the floor. Mary is dead. There are pieces of broken glass and some water on the floor. How was Mary killed?
Two fathers and two sons went hunting and shot three ducks. Each got one duck. How could this be?
A father and son were involved in an auto crash. The father was killed and the son was rushed to the hospital. The surgeon rushed in and upon seeing the patient exclaimed, “ I can’t operate on my own son!” How could this be?
A man was trying to go home, but he saw the man with a mask there, who was the man with the mask? Why was the man afraid to go home?
KID’S STORY RIDDLES – STORIES WITH HOLES
A man lives on the 35th floor, which is the top of an apartment building. Every day when he goes to work, he walks to the self-service elevator on his 35th floor, gets in, and rides it to the street level. Then he goes to his job. When he returns that evening, he gets in the self-service elevator on the street level and rides it up to the 20th floor. Then he gets out, goes to the stairwell and walks 15 flights of stairs up to his apartment. Why does he do this?? ( HINT: He does not want exercise. He rides up to the 20th floor every day except for the days someone else rides with him.)
KID’S WORD RIDDLES
MAN
BOARD
CYCLE
CYCLE
CYCLE
BAN ANA
HOUSE
FIRE
Online Kids Madlibs: Best Friends
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Short Kids Poem: Dancing
I dance while I’m standing.
I jive while I walk.
I do the hokey-pokey
when I want to talk.
I kick my soccer ball
to a jazzy salsa beat.
I macaroni-mamba every
time I need to eat.
I wiggle-giggle-shuffle as
I put away my clothes.
I shimmy, dip and slide when
I have to blow my nose.
My mom calls me a wiggler.
I always need to leap.
I even dream of jigs
while I’m in my bed asleep!
Enjoy this poem?
Check out my book My Sister Steals My Toys. It contains 109 other funny poems I wrote.Fun Kids Riddle: Climbing Mountain
This man was the first person to climb to the top of this mountain — but he wasn’t the first person to climb to the top of Mount Horrible. How could this be?
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Short Kids Poem: Respect
My mom does not respect my toys
No matter what I do.
I’m upset that my lessons are
Failing to get through.
She stepped on all my dinosaurs.
She kicked my poor t-rex.
My pterodactyl’s muddy and
I worry ‘bout their necks.
She promised to pick up my bear
From the school bus stop,
But then she left him in the cold
So that she could go shop.
She lost my purple elephant.
She mangled my stuffed hawk.
And when we had a tea-party
She never let us talk.
I don’t think that she’d like it
If I kicked her phone
Or trampled all her flowers and
And buried her trombone.
She’s impolite. She breaks the rules.
She thinks she has to shout.
Oh I wish there was a way
To put Mom in time-out.
Respect Poem for Teachers
Hey teachers! You can use this rhyming poem to teach respect in your classroom. Download our
Respect Poem For Teachers Lesson Plan (pdf). It includes a printable copy of this respect poem and questions to get kids talking about respect.
Enjoy this poem?
Check out my book My Sister Steals My Toys. It contains 109 other funny poems I wrote.