This Is What Every New Parent Needs
For nearly a decade now, I’ve been telling anyone who’d listen (which, admittedly, isn’t many) that Bill Harley’s The Town Around The Bend CD is the greatest thing in a parent’s bedtime arsenal once that parent is the parent of a toddler. My oldest daughter fell asleep to that curiously [...]
Dads and Moms Share First Thoughts on Bringing Home Their First Baby
Once your kid gets to 4 or 5, a lot of the smaller moments from the earlier years begin to fade from a parent’s mind. It’s only natural as they keep making new memories and more and more pieces of ‘art’ for you to keep and cherish, ahem, forever. But [...]
Where Would You Travel With Your Kids If Money Was No Object?
Okay, let’s pretend for a minute that money was no object, that you had limitless resources to go, do, and experience anything with your kids. What would you do? Where would you go? We wanted to know so we asked the thousands of moms and dads on our Facebook [...]
Disney Axes its Infinity Series
"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced." The classic line from Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi from Star Wars, couldn't be more fitting with recent news from the House of Mouse. Disney officially announced it was "axing" it's [...]
15 Dads Tell Us What They Want Their Kids To Be When They Grow Up
It started as late night dinner conversation fodder between my wife and I many years ago. We’d often stop for eggs or pancakes at 1am or some other time of day when we probably shouldn’t have been eating an extra meal. This was a tradition for us (the dialogue and [...]
Kids Say The Cutest Things Incorrectly
Kids Say The Cutest Things Incorrectly…Because They Say Normal Things Wrong and We Don’t Dare Correct Them Inspired by my youngest daughter, age nearly-9, still calling her favorite cereal "Rice Kripspies", we've asked the dads and moms of our Facebook community what's the cutest thing their kids say wrong. Now, [...]
Don’t Call My Daughter a Moody Tween
We’re wrapping up dinner, passing around the bowl of string beans to finish them off because they make for dreadfully rubbery leftovers, when I make a relatively harmless remark she doesn’t appreciate full stop. The mood around the whole of the kitchen table sours as her shoulders drop. She then [...]
How Taylor Swift Helped My Son Stop Crying At Drop Off
One Sunday, Simon asked if tomorrow was a school day. It sure is, buddy! I said, in my most chipper voice, fearing what was about to come. I expected tears. What I got instead was somehow worse. Oh no, he sighed with sad resignation, that means I have to give you a hard time. Wait. What!? [...]