Have you seen this recent YouTube phenomenon? It features a cute 3 year old girl explaining the plot of Star Wars. She has great lines like, “Don’t talk back to Darth Vader, he’ll get ya!” and “he tried to block the little poke ball” and calls Obiwan, “Obie Kenobi”.
The point is, it is damn cute and thousands of people have watched it and have made comments on the YouTube page. But then something happened. Read the rest of this entry »
Get off that computer and go outside! You are limited to 30 minutes of video games per day. Those games are too violent. As a kid, I heard all of this and many of you are saying the same things to your kids. You are concerned by the amount of time they are spending with a controller in their hand or sitting at a computer terminal questing for XP, blowing away aliens, building, deploying and destroying armies and socializing with their friends. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s the lovely month of February: a time when the tissue boxes come out and the flip flops and sandbox toys are a distant memory. With cold weather comes sickness, and with sickness typically comes infection.
One of the most common infections with kids is in the ear. This is basically due to the buildup of fluid and pressure around the eardrum. This happens more in kids because their eustachian tubes are shorter and thus, when the tube gets inflamed and builds up with fluid, you got yourself an ear infection.
But what do you do when your kid has an ear infection and is screaming bloody murder from the pain? There are a few things you can do before you get your kid diagnosed and pumped full of antibiotics. Read the rest of this entry »
The guy in this picture is not loving life. I should know because it is of me. I’m not happy because it was taken last night at 2:30 AM outside my local 24 hour CVS Pharmacy.
The reason for my early morning visit to the local CVS was not by choice. I was there because at 12:30 AM my 5 year old daughter screamed bloody murder complaining about pain in her ears. This pain, we found out, was due to 2 bulging ear infections. The problem is when we called the hotline of the pediatrician, the on-call nurse told us to give her Children’s Motrin.
That was fine and dandy except for the fact that we had no Children’s Motrin (or any other children’s ibuprofen) on hand. Which means it was listen to my daughter scream in agony and in effect, wake up her 2 younger brothers, or get my sorry ass out of bed and into my car. Read the rest of this entry »
This article was originally published March of 2006.Although it is for Mother's Day it certainly applies to Valentine's Day as well.
Mother's Day, depending on how much you liked your mother was probably just a quick little obligatory holiday. You called home and told her you loved her. Maybe if you were proactive enough you remembered to send a card or even flowers. If you were like me, once I got married, my wife took over those duties.
Welcome to another installment of our weekly feature: Ask the Chick. The chick is Latia Harris, a noodad reader and mom with a lot of answers for you. Each week, Latia will answer the questions you don’t have the balls to ask your own wives. This week, she answers 2!
Q: Dear Chick, I feel pretty stupid about women’s bras. I want to buy them for my wife for Valentine’s Day but I have no idea which to buy.Like what is a demi cup? Or wireless or non-wireless? I know what Ilike to look at but I don’t know what to look for. Help!
Noodads, Valentines day is nearly upon us! It’s time again to do something for our wives, girlfriends, boyfriends or uh.. other husbands to show them how much we care, support and stimulate the economy and maybe create a romantic moment that they will remember for at least the rest of their week.
Our friends at proflowers.com have offered Noodad and I five gift certificates each valued at $70 to give to our readers. The contest? I wanted to have 50 dads give up all of their personal possessions and be taken to an island where they compete in physical challenges against one another and vote off the losers, but Noodad said it had already been done. He is not as into my ideas since the time I insisted that noodad.com would become the single greatest site of all time if he took the hormones so that he could breast feed his third baby (and let me video him 24/7). It would have been so awesome, like Big Brother awesome.
Get off that computer and go outside! You are limited to 30 minutes of video games per day. Those games are too violent. As a kid, I heard all of this and many of you are saying the same things to your kids. You are concerned by the amount of time they are spending with a controller in their hand or sitting at a computer terminal questing for XP, blowing away aliens, building, deploying and destroying armies and socializing with their friends.
It’s the lovely month of February: a time when the tissue boxes come out and the flip flops and sandbox toys are a distant memory. With cold weather comes sickness, and with sickness typically comes infection.
The guy in this picture is not loving life. I should know because it is of me. I’m not happy because it was taken last night at 2:30 AM outside my local 24 hour CVS Pharmacy.
This article was originally published March of 2006.Although it is for Mother's Day it certainly applies to Valentine's Day as well.
Welcome to another installment of our weekly feature: Ask the Chick. The chick is Latia Harris, a noodad reader and mom with a lot of answers for you. Each week, Latia will answer the questions you don’t have the balls to ask your own wives. This week, she answers 2!
Noodads, Valentines day is nearly upon us! It’s time again to do something for our wives, girlfriends, boyfriends or uh.. other husbands to show them how much we care, support and stimulate the econ
omy and maybe create a romantic moment that they will remember for at least the rest of their week.
