Grown-ups have a way of complicating things. We are addicted to subtlety. Nuance. Shades of grey. One of the things I admire most about children is their ability to cut to the chase. They're honest. They tell it like it is. And they don't mess around with unimportant details. This video gives the rundown of Star Wars Episode IV from the perspective of a 3-year-old. One important life lesson: don't be like the shiny guy. The shiny guy always worries. Even 3-year-olds know that worrying is a stupid waste of time. Proof yet again that kids are experts at spotting Adultitis. …
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Puberty and the teenage years are often the initial cause of the widespread epidemic, Adultitis. It makes sense. Raise your hand if you'd like to go back to puberty. No hands... I thought so. Sure, there were fun moments, but for the most part the common experience is an extended period of awkwardness as you make the trek on the slow train from childhood to adulthood. With your hormones are out of control, the zits, peer pressure, and the pointless homework, you can't wait to leave childhood in the dust. Many of the people I have talked to about this agree that college was much more …
K&J Escape Event #1 Winner Announced
Well, you have spoken, and the winner of the first ever Kim & Jason Escape Event is Club K&J member Jim Peters! He received 54% of the vote total, making him a landslide winner. For those of you who missed out or are new to Kim & Jason, the Escape Event challenge, dubbed Kitchentertainment, was to "make a childlike moment in your kitchen. It could be resurrecting an experience from your childhood or creating a brand new one." …
Tip of the Week: Mr. Smartypants
This week’s Escape Plan challenge (aka our Tip of the Week) is #26: Mr. Smartypants. Open to a random page in the dictionary and look at the first word on the upper left-hand side. Keep turning pages until you find a word you don’t know. See how many times you can use this new word in a sentence today. As kids we're natural inventors of words. Jason's mom loves to recall how as a three and four-year-old he would talk about things "misdappearing." I knew a lot of preschoolers in my day who loved to eat pasghetti. We are experimenting with words all of the time as kids. As grown-ups we limit …
The Birthday Hat
by Sue Gudenkauf How do I Escape Adulthood? I'll tell you, family brings out the best of this in me. For my birthday this year, I happened to take a road trip with my sister, her husband, 3 nieces, and my parents to visit my oldest niece in college about 10 hours away. It wasn't just my birthday, but I also share a birthday (1 day apart) with my now 17-year-old niece. In the spirit of a road trip, I wanted to help make her birthday extra fun and silly (like she would do with her friends). So, I decided to start a new family tradition and being that my birthday was the very next day, I …
Lessons I Learned When The Tables Turned
(This is an excerpt of an article written for Kim & Jason magazine by Marg Forbes, CEO of The Forbes Solution. Marg combines her accounting acumen and her emotional intelligence skills to make numbers less intimidating and more meaningful for small business owners.) My mom was 39 when I was born, and although I was a “surprise”, I’ve always felt wanted, loved and cherished. She had three other children, but I was always her baby. When I lived at home, I never went to sleep without a goodnight kiss. When I moved away, I talked to her on the phone or visited her every day. Over the …
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