Posts tagged with parenting

Catching Puke With Your Bare Hands (And 7 Other Things You Never Saw Coming As A Parent)

I don’t care how many books you read before you become a parent, you’re just not going to be ready for everything that comes at you. And even then, you will often find yourself taken by surprise. Consider this list a warning if you’re a new parent or you have your first child on the way. The warning is not

Promises, Promises

We push too many adult concepts on our kids at too early of an age. Promises are one of them, and the best part is that we have a pretty miserable track record of keeping them ourselves. The other day, my wife and I promised our children that they could have ice cream when we got home from dinner. This

The Best Food Kids Never Eat

Do you ever struggle to feed your kids food… that they love??? The best/worst food that I ever make around here is oatmeal. I know, I know, it’s not that appealing on the whole food chain to begin with, but both of my kids go absolutely crazy for it. Then, they don’t touch it. And I fall for it. Every

DadBot 3000™

You can be the BEST DAD EVER with the DadBot 3000™! You can’t always be “Dad of the Year,” you’re not the perfect father, and you are certainly not expected to be. You can never give your children everything they want all the time. Your kids will misbehave, mostly due to their inner kid-dom, and you might be the one

The Trouble With Boys

We already know that parents of daughters will be in serious trouble in a few, short years. It goes by so fast.* What is analogous to this whole quandary, then, when it comes to mothers and fathers of sons? What do strangers commonly claim that young boys will turn into as teenagers that parents should fear and dread in advance?