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Recently we made the questionable decision to add a puppy to our household mix that until then had consisted of 4- and 6-year-old girls, my wife and I, and our two cats. Until last summer there was also a hamster named Rat, but it met an untime
Dear 21-year-old Self: Enjoy the relative ease with which you can put on socks. This only gets more difficult as time goes on.Hold your nose and buy Apple stock. That Steve Jobs fellow is really on to something with that iPod thing.There's
Recently my wife and I switched responsibilities, and I took our 5-year-old daughter to her ice skating class with her sister in tow. All was good. We rolled down the windows and rocked out to Kidz Bop and its infectious blends of "Worth It" an
"Daddy. You're bald."The girls have made a habit of dwelling on my follicle misfortune after I tuck them into bed at night. They'll actually hold the "a" in bald and let it drag on to really hammer the point home. The minute they sniffe
Travis reads the Some Assembly Required blog post, and then Travis and Greg discuss the pains of building swingsets, bikes, and other terrible things for their children.If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the aud
"You need to come down her and look at this," I told my wife. "The cat caught a mouse.""Well, take it away from him and throw it out.""I don't think it's a mouse," I said. "I think it's Hamster."One year prior we made the mistake of
Travis reads the Disney Cruise Disaster blog post, and Travis and Greg share other stories about bad family vacations.If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element Have you got a story to share about your
Not long after my oldest daughter turned 4, I'll never forget when she got up in my wife's face, slapped her, and told her to stop talking. If she were Adrian Peterson's child, he would have burned through every branch in a Texas-si
Forbes recently released its yearly list of most powerful brands. The top 10 consisted of well-respected brands that most households just shovel money into on a weekly basis, such as Disney, LEGO, Nike and Johnson's. Reading that article ma
Travis and Greg celebrate Valentine's Day by discussing the circumstances around their less-than-stellar marriage proposals.If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element Have you got a story to share abou
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Travis welcomes Tim Jones from the View from the Bleachers.net humor blog to the podcast, and they explore the lies they tell their children. Tim also discusses his new book, You're Grounded for Life: Misguided Parenting Strategies that Sounded
Late last year we took our 3- and 5-year old daughters on a Disney cruise, and the only magic we experienced was that Disney made all of our money disappear and we all somehow avoided inadvertently taking a selfie stick up the ass by one of the
Travis and Greg discuss their experiences baby proofing their homes.If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element Have you got a baby proofing story to share? We want to hear it! Share your baby proofing
Travis and Greg discuss the challenges of toilet training their children. If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element Have you got your own potty training story to share? We want to hear it! Share your
My kids are currently 5 and 3. And the older they get, the more it stands out how their user experience for life will be much different from mine. So I made a list of all the things that would be different, and I imagined a conversation between
"I need you to make him cry."The mother was insistent, the kid was indifferent, and mall Santa looked like he'd just been kicked in his candy cane."But Santa doesn't make kids cry," he said, completely confused."You don't understand
I have two daughters who are currently 2 and 4. Right now they are perfect little angels, but at some point in the hopefully-distant future they're going to want to start dating. When that dark day comes, I have just a handful of core rule
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"A" is for Art: I love my children, but they're young enough that the buildings they draw look like they have balls, the people all look like they have Leprosy, and the pictures generally look like what you'd imagine if a crayon could d
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"There are giant, red dicks coming up all over the back yard," my wife said nonchalantly. "I need you to take care of it."Always armed with a smart-ass remark, and refusing to believe that there was a naked herd of rogue neanderthals running am
The relationship between myself and kid furniture/toys you have to assemble is similar to the relationship I have with one-ply toilet paper: It takes longer than it should to get the job done, I'm continually doing re-work on some areas, an
It's kind of silly when you think about how irrationally excited parents get when children accomplish something as basic as shitting in a bowl. When you take into account that it takes us between three and four years to master the art of sh
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