Jason

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I am a 30-something father of four lovable heathens, avid gamer, technophile, science geek, caveman, and grill addict. Sometimes I have funny stuff to say so I write it down, and I'm lucky enough to make my living doing it.

Bonding with Your Newborn

Bonding, Development, How To Tags: bonding with babies, bonding with newborn, dads and bonding, how to bond with your newborn

Someone once pointed out a key difference between men and women to me: a woman can love her baby before it is born, but a man cannot, or at least not in the same way. Women have a head start on us guys when it comes to building a relationship with children (after all, they carry the child beneath their…

Anger Management: Picking Your Battles

Dads Want to Know, Development, Education, How To, Ready or Not Tags: arguments, choose your battles, picking your battles

Arguments happen. It is just inevitable that you will disagree, sometimes strongly, with someone in your life. When you are a husband and father, those disagreements will happen most often with your wife and children. The results can be stress, disharmony in your home life, and a world of other problems. Generally, we all want to win the arguments we…

Finding Fulfillment with a Less-Than-Ideal Career

Dads Want to Know Tags: career, hobby, how to be fulfilled, job, job fulfillment

A bachelor friend of mine once gave me his philosophy of life. He said guys are for friendship, girls are for sex, and your career should be entertaining and give you a sense of accomplishment. By the time I heard my friendâ€™s take on life, I was already a father of two with a set of twins on the way,…

What to Expect When You are Expecting (The Guyâ€™s Side of Things)

Her Body in Pregnancy, Physical Stuff, Sex Tags: cravings, fatigue, food aversions, pregnancy, pregnancy symptoms, sex, sympathy pains

Let me first say, I am not trying to pirate the name of the famous book here. I am just trying to start off with a familiar title to catch your attention. If your wife is expecting, you have at least of heard of that book. You should have read it by now, as a matter of fact. But that…

Investing in the Future: Paying for University

Organization and Finance, Ready or Not Tags: budgeting, budgeting for college, Organization and Finance, paying for college, paying for university

When you have children, you have to face the fact that they are not born Einsteins. They will need to be educated, both in academics and in life. Hopefully, you will teach them by example to be good people, and help out the overworked school systems in the academics area as well. But someday, they will need to go to…

How to Not Lose Your Temper With Your Kids

Bonding, Health and Development Tags: anger, anger and kids, how to not lose your temper, losing your temper

First of all, I would like to clarify something here. It is ok to be angry. When something elicits an emotional repsonse from you, and that emotion happens to be anger, that is normal. Anger does exist in the normal spectrum of human emotions, and it is healthy to express anger, so long as you express it in a healthy…

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