Another actual conversation between my wife and my two-year old: Son: “Want juice.” Wife: “We don’t have juice. How about milk?” And here’s where the boy goes into his “mom must have misunderstood what I said (I wonder what is wrong with her?), so I’ll repeat it, but louder” voice. Son: “Want juice.” Wife: “We [...]

909 is an area code. This is a regional joke, so if you don’t live in southern California, you may move along to the next post. My wife just got an email from her sister about moving offices and consequently, changing area codes. She writes, proudly, “You can change the 909 out of the number, [...]

My daughter turned, screaming “Nnnoooooo!!” with her eyes, action-movie style, as if some unstoppable horror was unfolding before her. Her body stiffened and then she screamed out loud. Her doom was at hand, as undeniable as death. It was… …her father. Me. She screamed and stormed upstairs to her room. I raised my eyebrows at [...]

Brett over at DadTalk just posted an interesting article about the ability of working dads to spend time with their children. Of course, the paternity pay rate of $185 a week may be the problem, but it’s still better than in the United States where most American men are told to take vacation time or [...]

Shirt folding video A surpising way to fold shirts for you laundry challenged folks out there (you know who you are, Dads). And it actually works!

Went to Scooter’s Jungle for my daughter’s friend’s 4th birthday party. On the way there, my wife whips out a waiver we both have to sign before they’ll let us in. In a nutshell it said, “We’ll do everything we can to make this place safe but if your out-of-control kid breaks his or someone [...]

I stumbled across beingdaddy.com this morning after seeing a Google for “being +daddy” in my site logs. It hasn’t been updated since November but there’s a humorous (Well, if you know who The Wiggles are. And you have a toddler. And perhaps you’ve been to one of their concerts. And you are easily amused.) article [...]

The sign’s heading reads: “You wouldn’t leave your groceries in the car.. Why would you leave me?” First of all, people who take better care of their carrots than their kids shouldn’t be parents. But the part about this sign that annoyed me the most was the note about the $100 fine for leaving a [...]

So yesterday we went to a Japanese tea party at my daughter’s pre-school. Each class sang a little song and we had noodles and tea and basically all of Japanese culture was distilled down to arigato and paper lanterns and rice. Well, I’m exaggerating a little. It was very cute. There was no saki. It [...]