Nobody likes people who butt into their business. They offer suggestions and voice their opinions when we may not want or need them. This can be especially true when it comes to parents and the style or manner in which they raise their children.
We encountered two situations recently where we didn’t say anything, but left possibly wishing that we should have.
Continue reading As a parent, should you advise other parents?
The many benefits of cold weather are skiing, snowboarding and blue horizons pierced by pine trees that challenge the sky for height. Alas, if you’re a mom or dad who doesn’t happen to live in Colorado, then cold weather means runny noses, sick children and a yearning to be a parent in one of those mountain states.
A child with a runny nose is a disgusting thing. Your child with a runny nose is an angel that needs to have their nose wiped before they re-enact the movie Up with mucus bubbles. Continue reading Parents, runny noses, Boogie Wipes and DISCO!
Baby Mojo is just 16 months but he loves to interact with the iPad. We’ve found a couple great apps that help teach him basic words and phonics. Verbally, we’ll teach him the sounds of the alphabet, but when he sees the letters we’re teaching him the phonetic pronunciation. All of these apps are free, but some of them may have additional aspects that you pay money for.
Continue reading Daddy Mojo’s favorite free iPad apps for toddlers
Toddlers destroy things. If a toddler were a mattress they’d have a tag on them that says, “Do not remove this tag or I’ll destroy more things than I would normally”. Toddlers touch what they shouldn’t, parents stop them, that’s our job. Continue reading Toys for the toddler: Fisher Price Laugh & Learn Camera
Becoming a dad and having children is a heavy, life altering responsibility. It’s loads of fun, but does require planning and advance thought. When my wife and I were thinking about having a baby she asked me for a motivational song to help us get pumped about the pending parenthood.
“How about Wait, by White Lion”, I said without missing a beat. Continue reading Family planning with White Lion
The other week my wife went to the chiropractor and was told that she has a case of “mommyitis”. A quick search of our friend the internet will tell you that it’s defined as having a child with separation anxiety. Alas, our doctor must not have gotten that memo because their definition was a pain in the elbow or triceps, caused by picking up a baby.
The doctor told my wife to stretch her arm, which she promptly told me to do to her. I gladly agreed because I knew that my larger and stronger man arms could lift our child without any worries. One week after her stretching routine my right tricep starts to burn. Then the next week my left tricep starts to ache, burn and feel like I had gone through a brutal workout. Continue reading A Dad gets Mommyitis
I love the opening sequence in Raiders of the Lost Ark. When Indy finally gets to the large room where the golden idol is he pulls out a bag of sand, shifts some of it out and then switches it out for the treasure. It’s a clever trick and an accurate premise. The treasure is on a pressure sensitive platform that triggers a huge boulder if something heavier or lighter is on it.
Prior to being a stay at home dad I used to do PR for an animal shelter. As part of my job I would take cats or dogs to local television stations and tell the audience why they needed to adopt this pet. Dirty little secret: when I took cats, I always took kittens and when I took dogs I always had bacon in my pocket.
What could that sequence from Raiders and the experience with pets on live television possibly have taught me about parenting? Continue reading What Indiana Jones and television dogs taught this Dad about Parenting
Prior to being a stay at home dad I had a wide variety of cleaning chemicals in my house. I even had two pints of acid that was kept in a thick black bottle, triple layered zip sealed bag. The acid didn’t make the move with us to our new home and is back at the old house, probably being surrounded by the EPA right now.
I was the single mans Breaking Bad, except I didn’t do anything with the chemicals, especially clean. Continue reading The pros and con of using vinegar to clean
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