Advice

The most important thing you’ll teach your kids

As a dad you probably spend an epic crap-ton of time worrying about the good (and bad) things that you’re teaching your kid. Whether it’s intentional teaching (like the whole reading, writing thing) or unintentional teaching (like television is…

Father’s Day — Bring on the ties.

So Sunday is Father’s Day. Time for dads everywhere to shine. Or, more likely, get a hastily chosen gift from aisle 5 of the CVS down the block (hey at least it’s not from the sketchy CVS around the corner, right?) before settling into your regular Sunday routine of…

There’s no one way to “dad”.

St. Patrick’s Day 2011. That’s the day that I became a father. I remember the moment that L was born quite well, despite the sleep deprivation that began on March 19, 2011 — the day we left the hospital room.

How to get your kids to love things

I love cars. I’ve always loved cars. I will always love cars. And I spent the first few months of L’s life trying to make sure that she loved cars too because I wanted to share that with her.

When did the world turn into one giant death trap? Or, How I learned to just play.

I was not what you might call a particularly cautious child. I climbed trees. I made model rockets with gunpowder charges. I tried my hand at archery, wrestling and cycling. I’ve broken my…

Three steps to pwning story time

So you’re a dad. Congratulations, you’re about to embark on an amazing journey that will have you reading stories to your progeny every bed (and nap) time until you’re ready to hunt down Jane O’Connor and Robin Preiss Glassser (the admittedly amazing team behind the Fancy…

Dad-hack > Bourbon cork wine stopper

Wine can be a tricky thing.

Delicious and nutritious of course — but drinking a bottle by yourself is best left to the 20-somethings that haven’t yet faced the levels of sleep deprivation that accompany parenthood. That means you need to…

Dad-hack > Answer all the things

You know how the default action when faced with a question you don’t know to answer your gut reaction is to bullshit, or “fake it till you make it”? Well your kids aren’t the sales pitch you lost last week — they can actually smell the bullshit and I promise they will…