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Having kids is good for men's hearts
Hey, dads! Having kids is good for your heart. That’s not a metaphor.
Dads are less likely to die of heart disease than men without children, according to a new study reported on in Time. It’s not being surrounded by your loving children that makes you healthier. These researchers believe that infertility may be linked to heart disease, so not having kids would be a sign that you’re at higher risk for a heart attack.
How do Dads feel about having less testosterone?
Last week, dads had to deal with the news that having a kid drastically lowers your testosterone levels. For dads with newborns at home, the drop can be as much as fifty percent. That’s a whole lot less hormone coursing through the veins.
How do guys feel about this? A dude from the New York Times asked a bunch of dads how they were taking the news that their bodies actually become less manly when they take care of kids. Reactions to the study are decidedly mixed. Some men feel the need to defend their manliness, while others see it as a good sign.
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It's the circle of life, man.
It’s the circle of life.
You start off thinking your dad hung the moon. He can do anything and he knows everything.
Eventually the father-son relationship evolves into something more complicated. He’s the ogre that makes the slave son (you) do chores and then he’s the idiot who imitates the waiter at the fancy restaurant, much to your embarrassment.
As the Huffington Post reports, “With time, our dads evolve into actual human beings instead of the capital D “Dad” images we have of them in our heads, and College Humor has put together a pretty amazing ode to that process.
Thanks to the Huffington Post for pointing me to College Humor: Continue reading »
How old are you again, Malia?
President Obama is facing a bit of (slow news day) outrage after he flubbed the age of his daughter Malia — twice in one single press conference. In a press conference on Wednesday, Obama was chastising Republicans for dragging out a deal that would raise the debt limit, accusing them of procrastinating more than young kids.
MSNBC quotes the president:
“You know, Malia and Sasha generally finish their homework a day ahead of time,” Obama said. “Malia’s 13, Sasha’s 10.”
Problem is, his oldest is technically 12. Continue reading »
My sweet husband and our daughter Violet on one of their walks.
My husband and I have this running joke about him walking around with our daughter in the Bjorn. Specifically, the fact that women are constantly ogling. Seriously.
He’d start strapping Violet to his chest for one of their walks and tell me “I’m off to pick up chicks now!”
“Okay! Be home before dinner!” I’d respond.
The ladies love him. The ladies have always loved him, he spent a decade in a band with a guitar strapped to his chest. I daresay that’s how he suckered me in. But exchange that guitar for a baby and the ladies go crazier than they ever did when he was on stage. I’m talking, double-takes, sidling up to him and asking how old his daughter is, the whole nine yards.
I don’t blame them. I think dudes wearing babies are way hot. Okay, I mean, you couldn’t like, put a Bjorn or a sling on, oh, say Nosferatu and the ladies automatically swoon. But there’s something about a guy who isn’t ashamed to babywear that gets me a little hot and bothered.
Most of the women I talked to agree. Continue reading »
My boys are whiz kids. But it was my fault.
As many of you already know, I went from carefree bachelor to the father of four within 13 months thanks to marrying a single mom then quickly conceiving triplets. When it came to parenting, I was baptized by fire. Which, of course, means that there were plenty of times when I got burned — mostly by errors born of my inexperience. Luckily, most of those errors were relatively benign ones.
Still, no one likes to make mistakes. And the last thing I want is for my kids to look back upon their childhood and remember me as an inept dad. That’s why I’ve always tried to approach fatherhood with humility and a sense of humor. Because with those two things, I’m hopeful my kids won’t ever recall me as inept. But rather as a guy who did his best to learn from his mistakes, and, when applicable, as a guy who did his best to laugh at them as well.
The discipline of parenting.
It was just over five years ago that I proposed to a single mom. That, of course, means that just over five years ago, I was shaking in my boots at the prospect of becoming a stepdad. And I’d be lying if I told you that the transition was smooth. It was incredibly difficult to go from carefree bachelor to (virtually) full-time dad overnight.
It was as if a thief in the night came and took all my free time away. While I had plenty of time for doing whatever I wanted, suddenly, thanks to my stepdaughter, most of my waking moments were spoken for. Not that that was a bad thing. For it wasn’t. But it did take some getting used to. Then, five months into our marriage we learned that we were expecting triplets and I fretted beyond belief. After all, if one was hard to get used to, what in the world would I have to do to get used to three more? At once?
Joslyn Gray 
Amber Doty 
Julianna Miner 
Monica Bielanko 
Sierra Black 
Meredith Carroll 
Carolyn Castiglia 
Sunny Chanel 
Madeline Holler 
Wendy Michaels 
Rebecca Odes 
Danielle Smith 
Danielle Sullivan 
Katherine Stone 
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