All You Need to Know About Fatherhood on a Credit Card

British hospitals are now sending home a guide that promises to tell you “how to be a dad.” So how many men does it take to carry this thing out of the hospital?

Just one - the guide is the size of a credit card.

So what does that say, exactly? Feed it, clothe it, don’t drop it? Continue reading »

Advice Makes Us Crazy

We’re in an era of what seems to be unprecedented information about parenting. Books, magazines, newspaper columns, and even websites like this one bubble over with advice and opinions about what you “should” be doing for your kids and more to the point, how they should be.

It’s enough to make us crazy. If you’re susceptible to the endless marketing barrage aimed at parents and the constant rush of advice books whose authors aren’t selling anything but themselves, you can really get into a lather. If you’re Continue reading »