Category: Story About The Toddler

The Story About the Toddler, Epilogue.

Four years ago, my first child was born, so I started these journals. Four days ago, my second child was born, so I’m pretty much stopping. I think that everything…

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The Story About the Toddler, Volume 32.

Our daughter Cordelia is four now, and I’m just about through with writing about her. She just had her birthday party. It was a regular kid party, with her friends…

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The Story About the Toddler, Volume 31.

My daughter Cordelia is almost four years old. My potential daughter, [NAME TO BE DETERMINED LATER], is negative-three months old. The holiday seasons are grinding to a merciful close. Cordelia…

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The Story About the Toddler, Volume 30.

Our daughter Cordelia is three years and ten months old, and these journals are rapidly winding to a close. Cordelia has pretty much transformed herself from a baby into a…

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The Story About the Toddler, Volume 29.

As of this writing, our daughter Cordelia has just turned 45 months old. (A bit over three and a half years, for those who don’t care enough to work through…

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The Story About the Toddler, Volume 28.

Our daughter Cordelia is three and a half years old. She is more human all the time. And I mean that, of course, in the bad way. We can have…

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The Story About the Toddler, Volume 27.

Our daughter Cordelia is three years and four months old. Raising a three-year old is very educational. It is a chance to see what a human being is like in…

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The Story About the Toddler, Volume 26.

Our daughter Cordelia has reached three years, three months of age. She is still young enough to change rapidly as we watch. For example, recently, she has changed from a…

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The Story About the Toddler, Volume 25.

Our daughter Cordelia is now three years and two months old. Her mental improvement, as measured by the number of TV shows she can ask to see in any given…

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The Story About the Toddler, Volume 24.

Our daughter Cordelia just turned three. I still call her a toddler, although she really isn’t. She doesn’t toddle. She runs. A child turning three is a big change, in…

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The Story About the Toddler, Volume 23.

Our daughter Cordelia just passed through the last month of her third year of life. She spent a lot of that time having all-night coughing fits. Every night. I have…

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The Story About the Toddler, Volume 22.

Our daughter Cordelia has completed her thirty-fifth month of life. She is almost three. That means she will soon leave the “Terrible Twos” and enter the “Mediocre Threes,” followed by…

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The Story About the Toddler, Volume 21.

My daughter Cordelia is thirty-four months old, and she has finally decided, after a long period of adorable pleasantness, to empower herself. She has finally realized that, when her mother…

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The Story About the Toddler, Volume 20.

In this, our daughter Cordelia’s thirty-third month of life, she changed in several dramatic ways. Since children tend to be rather tedious and slow developing around this age, my wife…

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The Story About the Toddler, Volume 19.

Our daughter Cordelia is 32 months old. I’ve gotten through almost two and three quarter years of doing whatever it is I’ve been doing. Writing a monthly journal is a…

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The Story About the Toddler, Volume 18.

My daughter Cordelia is about thirty months old. I’m trying to write about it like I always do, but I’m finding it extremely difficult to concentrate. The weather is hot…

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The Story About the Toddler, Volume 17.

Our daughter Cordelia is two and a half years old. This is a major milestone. Though, at this point, every day we get through without shutting her in the closet…

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The Story About the Toddler, Volume 16.

My daughter Cordelia is now two and a half years old. Or somewhere in that area. After a certain point, you are allowed to stop keeping track. I am trying…

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The Story About the Toddler, Volume 15.

Our daughter Cordelia is 28 months old now, and I’m pretty much done. As I understand it, I still have 15 years and change to go before I can let…

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The Story About the Toddler, Volume 14.

Our daughter Cordelia is now 25 months old. This is, in theory, a marvelous time, because it’s when toddlers are starting to want to become independent human beings. They are…

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The Story About the Toddler, Volume 13.

My daughter Cordelia is two months into her second year, and it’s been two months since I’ve written anything about her. It’s hard to find interesting things to write about…

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The Story About the Toddler, Volume 12.

Our daughter Cordelia is two today. Two whole years of maintaining her, with a reasonable degree of success. The paint got a bit scratched sometimes, but we never bent the…

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The Story About the Toddler, Volume 11.

Our daughter Cordelia is 23 months old now. And, when I say daughter, I mean goblin. Some little girls are cute, demure, mommy-leg-clenchers. Not mine. She is pink and cute,…

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The Story About the Toddler, Volume 10.

Now our daughter Cordelia is 23 months old and getting close to her second birthday. She will soon be the age at which I once thought babies started showing human…

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The Story About the Toddler, Volume 9.

Cordelia, the toddler who cruel Fate placed in our care, is twenty-one months old. And she is still advancing, in all of the expected ways. Toddlers develop differently than babies…

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The Story About the Toddler, Volume 8.

Our daughter Cordelia is now twenty months old. As the loyal and, sadly, honest biographer of her young life, I must relate that she has truly begun to discover her…

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The Story About the Toddler, Volume 7.

Cordelia, the nineteen month old toddler to which I provide moderate-quality parenting care, continues to learn to think. For example, the other day, she got the Teletubbies DVD out of…

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The Story About the Toddler, Volume 6.

As my little toddler girl Cordelia has grown older, I have charted her progress by determining the animal she was most similar to. First, it was limpet. Then turtle. Then…

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The Story About the Toddler, Volume 5.

Cordelia, our little toddling girl, is now seventeen months old. At this age, her body grows slowly, but her brain develops extremely quickly. This is a problem. Consider this. Imagine…

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The Story About the Toddler, Volume 4.

Now that our baby Cordelia is sixteen months old, all of the pieces are falling into place. It is rapidly becoming clear that she is a sinister creature, a Bad…

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The Story About the Toddler, Volume 3.

Our little toddler Cordelia is now fifteen months old. Every day, she is more human and less funny. I am starting to feel a strange sort of empathy with her….

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The Story About the Toddler, Volume 2.

Cordelia, the fruit of half of my DNA and the sole vessel for carrying my hopes and dreams into a gruesome future, is fourteen months old now. She’s old enough…

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The Story About the Toddler, Volume 1.

Not long after our daughter Cordelia’s first birthday, she stood up on her own for the first time. About ten minutes after that, she decided that standing up was bullshit…

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