Somewhat by accident, I took 14-year-old Seconda to her first rock concert this past December. It was one of those radio-station-sponsored affairs, with a lineup of ten bands and a running time of seven hours, and I bought the tickets assuming 17-year-old Prima, usually an exemplary sister, would be willing to go with her. Bad [...]
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Adventures in Parenting: The Seven-Hour Rock Concert
Posted in Adventures in Parenting, My Non-Romance-Reading Family, Watch Me Make This About Romance on January 25, 2011 | 64 Comments »
Adventures in Parenting: I Rent New Moon
Posted in Adventures in Parenting, My Non-Romance-Reading Family, Off Topic on June 6, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Yesterday my elder daughter (code name Prima) and I watched New Moon. Prima is a persnickety reader, and the Twilight books are not actually to her taste. Snarking over movie adaptations of those books, however, is very much to her taste, and after four-plus hours of taking the SAT, she was in the mood to [...]
