Geoffrey Redick
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How To Cut Your Kid’s Hair
I’ve always hated haircuts. In high school and university, when I was going for “a look”, my hair was the easiest part of the look to get right, and the hardest to hide when it looked wrong. When I found a stylist I liked, I was loyal to him, the way Mark Davis is loyal…
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Give Your Kids A Playlist Of Your Favourite Songs
1“Uptown got its hustlers, the Bowery got its bums. Forty-second Street got big Jim Walker, he a pool-shootin’ son of a gun”. Jim Croce sang those words in 1972, six years before I was born. They’ve been burned into my memory for so long that I can’t remember when I first heard them.
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How To Help Kids Fight Back When The Bad Guys Win
We had my son’s fourth birthday party the day the Patriots beat the Falcons in the Super Bowl. As everyone knows, the bad guys won that day. My son got to eat chocolate cake, so the party wasn’t ruined. Still, he brings it up from time to time. My kid isn’t unique. Over and over…
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How To Deal With The Death Of Your Family Pet
When I was 11, I wanted to be a veterinarian. Playing with animals all day seemed like a fun gig. Around this time, Billy Joel released the pop-rap song “We Didn’t Start The Fire”. In it, Mr Joel barks through a litany of horrible events that occurred in the 20th Century, at one point rhyming…