As is painfully clear from posts like this and this and this, the Serpick family is hopelessly obsessed with Elmo. This week, we made our second annual pilgrimage to Sesame Place, the theme park 30 miles north of Philadelphia where Elmo and all the other Sesame Street characters live.
As with last year, we had a […]

Someday, my 2 1/2-year-old son Jack will be a man. And when is, he’ll probably surf the Internets and find that his dear old dad posted this picture. Hopefully he’ll forgive me without inflicting bodily injury: Kids on the potty are just plain cute.
Potty training, on the other, is decidedly not cute. We’ve been at […]

[top: Me and Jack, about two years ago]
[bottom: Jack recently, trying to duckwalk like Angus from AC/DC]

My 2 1/2-year-old toddler Jack wants to be a rock star. As an aging wanna-be rock star myself, I couldn’t be happier about this. Some day, in some way, one member in this family will be a rock star!
As […]

Learning to Crawl has been nominated by Nickelodeon as a “Parents’ Pick” for best local blog in Baltimore!
Please click on the logo below and vote. You can vote once a day, so come back often and click on the logo on the right side of the blog to vote again! Right now, we’re just behind […]

When I called Debbie Phelps to talk about her new book, A Mother For All Seasons, she was leading a staff meeting at Windsor Mill Middle School in West Baltimore, where she is the principal. “It’s okay, I can step out,” she says. “They’re doing a brainstorming session about next school year.”
While her staff thought […]

Saturday’s sun-tastic weather lured me and the boys to Druid Hill Park for Baltimore Green Works’ EcoFest, which seemed like a good way to celebrate Earth Day (coming up on Wednesday).
We had a blast, cruising the booths with information about everything from solar power and geo-thermal energy to earth-friendly instruments. Luckily for us, many booths […]

On Saturday, I took my 2.5-year-old Jack to the new dolphin show at the Aquarium, “Our Ocean Planet.” We had seen the dolphins briefly once before, when the Aquarium had $1-admission for a weekend in December. On that occasion, us cheapskate plebes were only given the chance to watch the squeaky guys swim around during […]

That title is the four-word review offered by my 2-and-a-half year-old, Jack, after we left the Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey Circus, which debuted at the 1st Mariner Arena last night. As it turns out, this was the first trip to the circus for both Jack and me. As a kid, my parents didn’t […]

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After allegedly assaulting his girlfriend Rihanna, formerly kid-friendly pop star Chris Brown has wisely volunteered to withdraw his name from the list of nominees for Favorite Male Singer and Favorite Song at the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards, set to take place March 28th. The move came after concerned parents launched an online petition to take […]

A friend recently posted a status on Facebook that I think most parents can relate to: “Jeff thinks he made a big mistake by letting Adelia have her first taste of candy today.”
When we limit kids to healthy stuff like fruit and yogurt, it’s easy to keep them off the junk—they don’t know any better. […]