As a mom, I sometimes have a tendency to second guess the decisions I make about how I’m raising my kids. Especially when I’m confronted with another’s parenting choice. When you’re expecting your first (or second or third child), you can be faced with all sorts of choices: Am I going to have a natural [...]
In responding to folks on our Google+ page and Facebook pages regarding breastfeeding, I just realized that I neglected to mention that for a second time, my wife was selected as a cover girl for the IBFAN Breastfeeding Calendar, this time for their 2013 calendar. She had made it on the cover of the 2011 [...]
With all of the media attention now being given the subject of Scientology & parenting, I thought it pertinent to post this – an article I originally put together for BlogCritics, but more pertinent here. How did my mom come upon Scientology? What was in it for her? I asked her if she might write [...]
Baby 365 Project 2.0, a set on Flickr. Seeing as both of my kids were born in the Internet Era, I figured it would be fun to keep track of both of their first years with a daily photo log in Flickr. It’s actually been easier than keeping a daily journal like my mom did [...]
Getting through “teething babies” is a basic rite of passage for any parent. Two simultaneous teething babies is the higher-skill-level version of that. In my household, we just got through two weeks of some of the most abyssmal sleep imaginable while my 2-year-old daughter worked on cutting her molars, and my 8-month-old son worked on [...]
After writing earlier articles about how much I’ve been consciously trying to allow my daughter to help around the house, and to allow her to contribute – even when we’re nervous about the “help” she may provide, the strategy is obviously paying off. As you can see from the video above, even though she’s just [...]
I just got the following story from Alisa D, a Portland-area mother who recently had her second boy. As part of her preparations for the baby, she and her husband did the Having a Happy Baby Course at her local Church of Scientology of Portland. Here’s what she had to say: My husband and [...]
I’ve had a number of questions, on this site, on our Facebook page, and on various other forums, about Barley Formula. A number of direct questions came from my earlier post on my wife as a breastfeeding centerfold model, but I wanted to answer some of these questions directly here. Barley Formula vs. Breastfeeding I [...]
Climbing the Couch to the Music, originally uploaded by tadnkat. Had to share this because, well, it’s a bit too cute. This is my 7-month-old, climbing the couch in a way which is almost perfectly choreographed to the music in the background. Astute listeners will no doubt recognize the soundtrack in the background as the [...]
This is, I think, the most epic bout of cute baby laughter on the entire Internet. Perhaps I’m only saying it because I’m the daddy, but I think it at least ranks up there: Other laughing baby movies – for your viewing pleasure: No need to weep or rant or rave Or grind your teeth [...]