Weekly Archives:
Sep 30
From last week:
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on Parent Hacks:
Never run out of diapers again: Amazon Subscriptions
Michael uses Amazon Subscriptions to save money on diapers AND desperate
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on Finslippy:
Operation Bore My Son to Tears
...is not going well. Today is Henry's third day home sick
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on Amalah:
Taking the Monkey Theme to the Next Level
No, I didn't make him wear this at his birthday party...
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on DadCentric:
I know I've been slacking when Metro posts more than I
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on Dad Gone Mad:
[Ed. Note: I will stipulate at the outset that we Jews
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Robert Plant regrets time away from his children
Robert Plant, frontman of the legendary band Led Zepplin, admitted he
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on Dooce:
Dear Leta, Today you turn forty-four months old. One morning early
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on Sweet Juniper:
I was standing next to an ultrasound machine last week, watching
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on Parent Hacks:
Cookie sheets rescue food dropped from the high chair
Rob's good-sense feeding hack: Our little guy is just starting to
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on DadCentric:
Raising a Daughter in the Modern World
Courtesy of my fellow NYC dad blogger, mr. nice guy, I
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on Suburban Bliss:
Today is a half day of school.
Half days are against my religion. Whole days off are against
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on Dad Gone Mad:
“Daddy, I want you to retire.” “Why?” “Because. I don’t want
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Stephen Colbert just wants a normal life
The Colbert Report star Stephen Colbert just wants a normal life
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on Sweetney:
One tiny dog. Massive amounts of stupidity.
Friends, we may very well be in possession of the dumbest
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on The Mommy Blog:
Beware of children bearing big brains. And even bigger mouths.
Just got the kids to bed and now can't remember why
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on Suburban Bliss:
From Maggie's Book. No one cares what you had for lunch.
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on Dad Gone Mad:
All The Cool Kids Are Doing It
I got chewed out this morning because I had the gall
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on Amalah:
A few sessions ago, Noah's speech therapist brought him a Mr.
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on Parent Hacks:
Bath towel "bolsters" help baby sleep without rolling over
Melanie would love your weigh-in on her hack: My son is
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Matt Damon promises family he will spend less time working
Matt Damon announced plans to cut back on work so he
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on The Mommy Blog:
Mommy Confidential on ABC’s “The View from the Bay!” (Sort of.)
I received an email from Lulu.com today letting me know that
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Chi McBride and girlfriend expecting
On tonight’s The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, actor Chi
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on Sweetney:
You say it's your birthday? It's my birthday too, yeah!
M is home today, as her entire school is closed for,
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on Paper Napkin:
Things I have not done: * taken my medicine * used
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on Parent Hacks:
Tie-down straps make dining room chairs unclimbable
John's "foil the climbing toddler" babyproofing: My first son was very
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on Laid-Off Dad:
Drinking legally for more than half my life
I showed an uncharacteristic bit of momentum with those last two
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on Dooce:
Last night I published a new masthead for the month of
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on Amalah:
"Links," as I believe the kids call them
Still trying to unplug on Tuesdays, more or less. Still failing,
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on Dad Gone Mad:
My kids do lots of things I don’t understand but foremost
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on Sweet Juniper:
Our normal exit ramp was closed off the highway after a
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on DadCentric:
Coming in 2008 - DadCentric: The Book!
I'm pleased to announce that this coming spring, DadCentric: The Book
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Penny Lancaster Stewart thinks Alastair might be future rock star
Model Penny Lancaster Stewart, 36, thinks her baby Alastair, 22 months,
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on Amalah:
Weekend of Aballs, Achoochoos and Awine
Hey, guess who forgot to take pictures at her son's second
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on Finslippy:
Why, preparing for Henry's birthday party, of course! Which was yesterday.
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on Parent Hacks:
Fleece blanket works as a makeshift sheet when night training
Potty training reality! From Charisse: For night training, which we're still
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on The Mommy Blog:
I’m walking from Boston to San Francisco! Wanna join me?
I received this note from my pal Jeanne Fitzmaurice yesterday and
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on Dad Gone Mad:
I guess it's been about a year since I started shaving
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on DadCentric:
Walter the Farting Dog is the story of Walter the, uh,
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on Suburban Bliss:
We all want to be Detroit Hipsters but with less robbery.
The night before my sister's wedding The Hipsters showed up. When
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Kevin Federline Parenting Tips
Sadly, there's pretty much no reason to watch Saturday Night Live any more except to watch Adam Samberg. In this hilarious skit, Samberg (as K-Fed) shares some of his most prized parenting tips...
Published October 09, 2007 PermaLinkAll DadCentric Posts on /Parenting:
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October 05, 2007
I know I've been slacking when Metro posts more than I have recently. Honestly, I get to be part of a book deal and I go all J.D. Salinger.
Anyway, I find myself on a cusp. I'm teetering on the edge of being myself and becoming my parents - and I'm only going that way kicking and screaming. On the one hand, I like to think I'm tech savvy, tuned into pop culture, up on the latest bands and musical stylings - I'm like D.B Sweeney and Moira Kelley. On the other, however, I feel woefully out of it; I hear "back when I was a kid" in my head; and I find myself muttering, "I don't get it" all too often - I feel like I should have a blanket on my lap and be watching Matlock, while I wait for an early bird dinner...
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October 04, 2007
Raising a Daughter in the Modern World
Courtesy of my fellow NYC dad blogger, mr. nice guy, I discovered this weirdly powerful and chilling public service commercial from Dove. Considering the fact that Dove is one of the world's largest consumer beauty companies, this video really is kind of ballsy...
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October 02, 2007
Coming in 2008 - DadCentric: The Book!
I'm pleased to announce that this coming spring, DadCentric: The Book will be released by Sear Press. The book will be a collection of some of the site's best posts, along with some new material. Sort of like what Boston did with their Greatest Hits album...
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October 01, 2007
Walter the Farting Dog is the story of Walter the, uh, farting dog. Beloved by children, but shunned by adults for his flatulent ways, poor Walter even catches the blame for everybody else's farts. He ultimately puts his noxious outbursts to heroic use and saves the day, but not before almost getting shipped off to the pound in order to rid the house of the stench clouds that he leaves in his wake...
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September 27, 2007
There is a question which ebbs and flows throughout the pages of this parenting and blogging community. What, exactly, are the consequences of the actions we now take? It has been addressed on this site before. It may very well be addressed on this site again. That, of course, is the nature of the tide.
Some of us talk openly of our children. Some of us hide their identity. We share photos or we don't. We tell tales and we change the names of those involved, or we out them with open and festive embrace. These are choices made on a personal level, but the results of those choices are anything but private. In this age of the internets our children are exposed as never before, and more often than naught it is the loving hand of the parent pushing them onward...
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September 26, 2007
The announcement came from the back seat. We were en route to Noodles and Company for dinner, and the boy cleared his throat and addressed us, with all of the gravitas that a three-year-old can muster. "Um, I'm going to get a motorcycle." "Ah", I replied. "When?" "When the baby comes", he said...
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September 25, 2007
When Disney Characters Go Bad!
Every year in junior high, there would be a school trip to Great Adventure/Six Flags. And every year, my friends and I would always go to the Haunted House. And every time we went to the Haunted House and one of the costumed ghouls jumped out from behind a cage to try and scare us? We'd squirt him with a bottle of ketchup that we'd stolen from the concession stand...
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September 24, 2007
When Football and Gossip Collide!
Like many households around the country, my wife and I engage in a battle of the remote control that can sometimes take legendary proportions. Most of our battles occur in the early evening. While she wants to watch "Entertainment Tonight" or "Access Hollywood," I'm constantly trying to switch over to "SportsCenter" or "The Jim Rome Show." It can get damn ugly sometimes.
So imagine my pleasure when I found myself alone for a few hours on late Saturday afternoon. The wife and the kid were on an all-day Ikea run so I had the remote all to myself...
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September 20, 2007
This Saturday, I begin my head coaching career. I will be the skipper of Lucas' t-ball team; in order to prepare for the daunting task of instructing three-year-olds in the fine art of America's Pastime, I've been playing catch with the kid, reading Moneyball, and practicing my cat-herding skills...
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September 18, 2007
...It was a bad idea - heading to Trader Joe's at 5:00. With the kid, no less. But we were out of milk, and coffee, and Beth was asleep on the couch, so there it had to be done. It would be a zoo - sometimes I think that everyone in Encinitas either works from home, or doesn't work at all, and at any given time at least 1/3 of the town's populace (56,000, according to the latest data) can be found at T.J.'s ...
