Raising a Good Baby is Just Like an M. Night Shyamalan Movie
What can go wrong if you let your baby play with an electrical cord? Relax and hang up on the Child Protection Agency, the cord isn’t plugged in, so it’s okay and I’m still raising a good baby if I [...]
Expensive Organic Baby Food Made a Sucker Out of Me
Like every new parent, I’ve vowed to always feed my baby healthy food. Also, like every parent, this via will inevitably be broken at some point. “I’m never taking my kid to McDonald’s” will soon become, “I’m never taking my [...]
The Michael Phelps of Baby Distraction (VIDEO)
If they don’t put “baby dressing” into the 2016 Olympics I’m gonna be pissed. Seriously, if shooting can be in the Olympics so should the full contact process of trying to dress a squirming eight month-old. As I’ve mentioned before, [...]
The 22-Second Rule and How It Will Change Your Life
Once Rosalie started crawling, nearly every parent I know said the same thing, “Your life as you know it is over.” I feel like this is one of those things that parents only say because another parent told it to [...]
12 Things Men Should Never Say to a Pregnant Woman
Sure, some of these things men should never say to a pregnant woman are common sense, but, as the popularity of Affliction t-shirts proves, men can’t always be trusted to follow common sense. So, I give you, the 12 Things [...]
The Best Part of My Day Might Depress You
I used to dread 5:47 p.m. every day. Well, it wasn’t exactly 5:47 p.m. every single day, but it was always somewhere around that time. The reason for this daily dread? This is when we dress Rosalie for bed. So, [...]
How Hard Can Teaching a Baby To Crawl Be? (VIDEO)
Teaching a baby to crawl? Here’s what some of the “experts” tell you to do: 1. Put your kid on the floor. 2. Buy a roller or make one by rolling up a towel. 3. Position their elbows so that they [...]
I’m Pretty Sure They Got the Meaning of the Fourth of July Wrong
I’m not sure if it’s Paul Revere’s fault or somebody over at Hallmark, but heads need to roll over this whole labeling of the Fourth of July as “Independence Day.” Seriously, I think they got the meaning of our biggest [...]
Baby Bumped Head. Dad Ponders Firefighting Career.
I swear my baby has never bumped her head while her mother is home. Rosalie has an uncanny ability to sit there and not bump her head for hours upon hours, but as soon as my wife goes to work [...]
How to Be a Great Father (to a Baby)
When it comes to dads, all we really want to know is how to be a great father. We’ll spend time reading about the importance of sleep habits and nod our way through conversations about the intricacies of breastfeeding, but [...]