What You Missed This Week Here’s a list of the original content we posted on the site this week: How Can You Know The Stove Will Burn Without Touching It? – Kids can either be coddled or allowed to learn about the world through trial and error. What kind of dad are you – overprotective or… Continue Reading
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Keep Your Head In The Game!
Holy crap has distraction taken hold today. I came home from a doctor’s visit around about two hours ago with every intention of sitting down and writing a post for the site…and I’m just getting started. First, I had to eat lunch. Then I had to try on the new neoprene calf support sleeve I… Continue Reading
The 3 Phases of Finding Out We Were Having Twin Girls
Finding out I was having twins girls may have been the single most significant life event I had experienced up until that point. I’m an engineer by trade – that means I’m a mathematical guy. I understand numbers – percentages, probability, statistics…that kind of thing. So when I found out my wife and I were… Continue Reading
Daddy Day Care – Proof Why Men Were Hunters
My wife left for a five-day Florida vacation on Saturday which left me flying solo with two-year old twin girls. Daddy Day Care indeed! Two year olds (they’ll be three in July) are a percular bunch. The change from turning two to a few months away from three has been amazing. Six months ago, this… Continue Reading
Swearing In Front Of My Kids
This post is most definitely rated PG-13 for language. You were warned… I have always had a love/hate relationship with those words that polite society shies away from and refers to as “swear words.” I grew up in a home that definitely did not promote their use but, with all the sports I played, they… Continue Reading
Father Knows Best – The Best Advice I've Ever Received
You spend the first part of your life providing unconditional love to them, the next part insisting that they are wrong at every corner, and the rest of your life realizing that they actually knew what they were talking about. Of course, I’m writing about fathers. My old man was, and still is, a straight… Continue Reading