My kids, like all kids, love holidays. When they ask what Christmas or Easter is all about, most of us have an easy answer. St. Patrick’s Day is a little harder. Even for a 100 percent Irish fella like myself, I’m not totally up on the meanings behind the traditions.
One of my family’s favorite Web sites, National Geographic Kids, has all the answers in a special St. Patrick's Day project. Bookmark this site, if you haven’t. It’s wholesome, educational and entertaining.
And that's harder to find than a pot of gold.

Don't believe me? Then read this.

In case you missed the story in today’s Register — you know, a daily newspaper where people get the kind of community news that will never appear on Twitter, Google, Drudge or any other impersonal digital hole that’s supposed to represent the media of the future — “Supernanny” is coming to Connecticut.
The reality parenting show is looking to cast some state families. I’ve watched “Supernanny” over the years for the same reason people slow down at car crashes: Thank God that’s not my family pinned in the wreckage.
I’m sure loads of people will try out for the show, anxious to prove to host Jo Frost what complete idiots they are and how they have absolutely no control over their little brats. What compels people to expose their deepest flaws to a national television audience? Is it a desire to have their parenting skills transformed and their family made whole? Or is it a desire to be reality TV famewhores?
I think you know the answer.
My advice to the tempted is to visit the show’s outstanding Web site for very effective parenting tips and keep your skeletons in the closet.

I just delivered Girl Scout cookies to my colleagues here at the Register on behalf of my daughter, but first had to apologize. Thin Mints, the most popular Girl Scout cookie by far, are thinner. Not the cookies themselves, the package. The box is about two inches smaller than in previous years. Those two hefty strips of tasty minty goodness inside the box are shorter. Basically, customers got fewer cookies for the same $4 price.
Here’s why, and it should come as no surprise. Michelle Tompkins, spokeswoman for Girl Scouts of the USA, told the Associated Press that steep rises in the costs of cocoa and flour, as well as rising transportation costs, contributed to about two fewer cookies in some boxes and to smaller-sized cookies in others.
“We had a weight reduction on a few varieties of cookies,” she said, adding it’s the first time in a decade the Girl Scouts have downsized the cookie weight in each box.
That may be true, but there’s no way just two Thin Mints were taken away. I’d estimate at least 10.
Here’s the good news: you won’t feel as guilty when you whorf down a whole strip while watching “30 Rock.”