On a Saturday filled with errands, my wife and I decided to stop for lunch at Subway with the kids. From a marketing perspective, Subway has done a pretty good job differentiating themselves from the generic sandwich shop market by being the healthier option. “Eat Fresh” certainly keeps Subway above the “Mmmm…Toasty” and “Funny name, great sandwiches” that Quiznos and Schlotzsky’s provides.
We bought our daughter a turkey and cheese sandwich with apple wedges and an apple juice. That’s no comparison to the 5 piece chicken McNugget Happy Meal with french fries and a Hi-C orange drink.
My son got a salami sandwich with no cheese (milk allergy) and even though the meat was greasier than his sister’s turkey, compared to a hamburger, we were feeling pretty decent about our healthier choice for them. Read the rest of this entry »
When you’re a dad, every once in a while your kids will serve up surprises. Some of these are not of the pleasant variety, like hearing one of them say, “Feed the fish more!” as he dumps the whole jar of fish food in the 10-gallon tank, forcing you to become an emergency vet in an effort to save $8 worth of neon tetras. Or maybe going up to the crib only to find your kid has smeared his own feces all over his body so he looks like an extra from Apocalypto. You’ll see far more of these types of surprises when raising your kids than the good ones. I must have been due for a good surprise, though, because I got one the other day that became an instant classics in my family’s lore. I thought I’d share it with all you noodads. Just put your mind in the gutter and check out my first-grader’s math homework… Read the rest of this entry »
To the mother of the baby who left her kid in the car. You are lucky. I have to ask you, what errand was so important that you make completing it a higher priority than the well-being of your 1 year old? Range Rovers by Land Rover are indeed awesome cars, but unless yours is uber customized, they do not have built in isolettes which would regulate the temperature of an infant, always sensing when they need a little heat. If your reasoning was “It was too cold outside for the baby”, then you are a Darwin awards candidate. Your car does not maintain heat. It was off. They also do not change diapers, nor do they gavage milk.
You are lucky that the operator of the parking garage and a Bostonnow.com employee care about kids. They looked out for your motionless baby. You could have been hit by a bus, kidnapped or even killed during your errand. They were willing to assume the worst in order to make sure that your baby was cared for in the event that something had gone awry.
What mission were you on that you would risk the well-being of an innocent incapable of self care? You must have found the hidde base of Osama bin-Laden and needed to report it to the authorities. Maybe you needed to deliver urgent medication to an RSV infested area and could not take the baby in for fear of her contracting the potentially deadly virus. On the surface it looks a lot like laziness. Read the rest of this entry »
Breastfeeding is a natural and very exciting thing for a dad to witness. As we have written before, although it may seem like an erotic peepshow jackpot for predads thinking they will get to ogle their wives’ monster jugs every few hours, they will quickly realize that it is sadly, not the case.
But is breastfeeding obscene? Apparently Facebook thought so. They banned pictures of breastfeeding on their site. Then when a video montage of women breastfeeding was put together by a mom in protest and published on YouTube, they banned it too. Read the rest of this entry »
News isn’t good for former hottie Britney Spears who after a nuclear meltdown and downward plunge of a career last year started 2008 of with a bang by refusing to hand her 2 sons over to her ex-husband, refusing to take a drug test, and taken away to a hospital in a wheelchair for psychological evaluation.
I gotta tell you, Kevin Federline’s career as a backup dancer and laughable rapper may be filled with mockery, but in contrast to his ex-wife, he is looking like the father of the year.
So sad for the kids and sad for a once promising career. I hope she gets help, fit, and back to her schoolgirl outfit days
Last week, I blogged about William Van Winkle, the Oregon dad/author who is looking for answers from other dads for his new book, “Everyday Secrets for First-time Dads”.
I had the opportunity to ask him a few questions, Noodad-style. Enjoy, and then take his survey at Daddybook.com
Question 1: Tell us a little bit about why you wanted to write this book.
In the darkest days after the arrival of our first son, when he was dropping weight and wouldn’t or couldn’t eat, when my wife was in constant pain and I was powerless to help her, it was very hard to find a silver lining. I kept thinking, over and over, “Why didn’t someone warn me about any of this?” In my book, I tell the story of how on our third visit to the lactation clinic, one nurse grudgingly suggested that we try a nipple shield, this little $7 piece of perforated plastic that goes over the nipple to help with feeding. BAM! Problem solved! The kid could eat. My wife wasn’t biting through her bottom lip in agony. Everything got better instantly. Read the rest of this entry »
William Van Winkle, a dad of 2 from Oregon is writing a book called Everyday Secrets for First-time Dads and he needs your help. He is looking for people to register on his site and answer a survey so he can hear from real dads like you and I.
Here’s the short and sweet truth: I want to know what you think about parent-related stuff because I’m writing a book called Everyday Secrets for First-Time Dads. This book will cover the things other daddy books miss. All those little taboos. All those “why didn’t someone tell me THAT” things the world seemingly never tells new dads to make their lives easier. A big part of this unveiling depends on survey input from hundreds of people, hopefully including you. Read the rest of this entry »
My kids are little, but I am slowly preparing for this kind of conversation when they get older and their Jamie Lynn Spears disappoints them. First, I will make sure that my kids understand that celebrities and athletes are not role models. As fans we expect the celebs we idolize to be all knowing and all seeing. We forget that they are mere mortals just like us (except for Will Smith and Tom Brady and Harrison Ford and Gisele).
The fact is that Britney Spears has made extremely questionable decisions. She is detached from her family and she has tarnished her image. She started out as a clean cut, all-American girl in a similar to Jamie Lynn’s current image, but her popularity, power, paranoia and cash got to her and she more or less went off the deep end.
This guy is the real Guitar Hero. This is a story about a school teacher that found a copy of the hard-to-find game, Guitar Hero 3 for his son. This awesome dad found it, bought it, and was psyched to give it to his son for Christmas.
But when he came home one day and found his beloved offspring smoking pot with his friends in the backyard, he did something amazing: he sold that game on eBay instead of giving it to his son.
“So I was so relieved in that I had finally got the Holy Grail of Christmas presents pretty much just in the nick of time. I couldn’t wait to spread the jubilance to my son,” the father wrote on eBay. “Then, yesterday, I came home from work early and what do I find? My innocent little boy, smoking pot in the back yard with two of his delinquent friends.” Read the rest of this entry »
Friend of Noodad.com, and fellow Jimmy Fund walker, Dave (from Daddy Daze) as released a cool eBook on his site. Even better, it is free.
Today I’m so happy to release my very first eBook, “5 Tips for Happy, Little Toddlers.” Don’t let the title mislead you; it’s much more than simple tips. In fact, this eBook contains extended versions of my post popular posts, including Seven Steps to End Mealtime Battles Forever, How to Avoid Reinforcing the Wrong Behavior, The Storm Before the Calm (why behavior gets worse before it gets better) and A Simple and Effective Reward System.
On a Saturday filled with errands, my wife and I decided to stop for lunch at Subway with the kids. From a marketing perspective, Subway has done a pretty good job differentiating themselves from the generic sandwich shop market by being the healthier option. “Eat Fresh” certainly keeps Subway above the “Mmmm…Toasty” and “Funny name, great sandwiches” that Quiznos and Schlotzsky’s provides.
William Van Winkle
My kids are little, but I am slowly preparing for this kind of conversation when they get older and their Jamie Lynn Spears disappoints them. First, I will make sure that my kids understand that celebrities and athletes are not role models. As fans we expect the celebs we idolize to be all knowing and all seeing. We forget that they are mere mortals just like us (except for Will Smith and Tom Brady and Harrison Ford and Gisele).
This guy is the real Guitar Hero. This is a story about a school teacher that found a copy of the hard-to-find game, Guitar Hero 3 for his son. This awesome dad found it, bought it, and was psyched to give it to his son for Christmas.
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