Keeping up with kids is hard work sometimes. The best way to keep up with those little balls of energy is to stay in shape yourself. Between work, helping with the baby (you better be), hobbies, and time to decompress from stress, and still maintaining a healthy level of intimacy with your wife or partner, exercising can fall way down…
My daughter, my firstborn, is the light of my life. Any man who has a daughter knows that, no matter how much he may want a son for whatever reason, their daughter(s) is something special. When we found out she was going to be a girl at that fateful ultrasound, my wife asked me if I was disappointed. I said…
Leaving behind diapers and venturing into the blessed freedom that comes with having potty-trained kids is one of those parenting experiences you never imagined you’d treasure so much, but it’s one of those things you look back on as a watershed moment in your dadhood. Diapers are expensive, messy, and just a general pain in the butt…although they’re definitely better…
Sex and Pregnancy: NO, You Won’t Poke the Baby in the Head
Her Body in Pregnancy, Physical Stuff, SexThis is for all you dads-to-be, who have a newly pregnant wife and are alternately thrilled and terrified by the changes going on in her body, the changes that are happening in your marriage…and in your sex life. Sex is obviously how you got into this state in the first place, so there’s no shame or anything to be embarrassed…
As I explained in a previous post, diapering is a dad responsibility, like it or not. Since you need to get good at it, here are some practical tips to keep this dirty duty as clean and simple as possible.
All right, dads, you haven’t earned your father stripes until you’ve gotten in the trenches and gotten dirty. Yeah, I mean really dirty. No! You say. Yes, say I. You’re not officially in the dad club until you’ve changed your fair share of diapers. Sorry, it’s a dirty job, but someone’s gotta do it—and no, that someone isn’t always your…