Oh Great… Another Dad Blog About Another Baby
Popeye is 6 months old. That’s 1/20th of a decade, half a year, 26 weeks, 182 and a half days. He arrived in the second month of the 2,014th year, in the third month of winter, on a cold and rainy night. Now it is hot and arid, it’s been…
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Playtime is over. While it is never established if these guys are dads or not, I decided to believe that they are so that I could include it on this site. This fantastic short film is directed by Andrew McMurry and features Michael Scott and Seth McMurry as two guys…
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I believe in new beginnings. I’ve been fortunate enough to be in a position to start over a few times, and each time, I feel like I’m inching closer to where I want to be. The first time I started over was in 1999, when I realized that the restaurant…
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I was hesitant to write anything about the recent loss of a certain celebrity because I try to keep things a little more upbeat around here. It’s a terribly sad situation, but since the little man’s nickname is Popeye, and since it was one of the actor’s iconic roles, I…
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While I try to feature commercials that are dad-driven, this one is too moving to pass up. Plus it’s all set up by dads, so they come out looking pretty good. I dare you not to get a little choked up over this one. Note: Unless you are fluent in…
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A few weeks ago, fellow dad blogger DadScribe posted an article called 9 Things Han Solo Taught Me About Being a Dad, where he shared parenting tips that he learned from the beloved character from Star Wars. It got me thinking about what fictional character has unwittingly given me advice…
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Dads have gotten a bad rap for years, especially in movies and on television. The bumbling dad is a pop culture mainstay and was perfected by Al Bundy, Homer Simpson, Clark Griswold and countless others. The push back has been an extremely slow process but finally, advertisers are leading the…
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I feed the boy around midnight and am impressed with how quickly he drains the bottle. Mama is at work and I really need the little man to give me the gift of an easy night. I get a quick burp out of him and bounce him on the yoga…
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When the little man was just a few weeks old, he started grabbing my hands so that I could help pull him up to his feet. He’d then proceed to take the aptly named drunken sailor steps and, most of the time, he’d start from my belly and end up…
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This is an old commercial from Google that they used to promote their Chrome browser. It shows a father creating an email account for his newborn and then follows him as he emails her various milestones throughout her youth. It ends at the beginning with him hesitating to type the…
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I don’t know if you know this about me, but I like lists. They are a very efficient way to digest lots of information quickly, and it’s also very easy to gauge your progress. For instance, if you’re in the middle of reading the 4th item of a 7 item…
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General Mills unleashed this new #HowToDad campaign to promote Peanut Butter Cheerios, which is billed as “The Official Cereal of Dadhood.” They also launched a companion Tumblr which fleshes out the promotion with nuggets like: “Never say no when you can say ask your mother.” “Work hard, dad hard.” “Dadhood:…
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