The Daddy Files

My wife loves the Food Network. Whether it’s Diners, Drive-ins & Dives or that show with the old Double Dare host from Nickelodeon in the 80s, she just can’t get enough of it. Me? I like one show. Everyday Italian, hosted by the one, the only, the BEAUTIFUL Giada De Laurentiis.
As you can gather from [...]

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I was talking with my kick ass daycare provider today and she made a comment that caught me off guard while talking about Will.
“He’s such a free spirit,” she said. “He really makes the other parents nervous.”
I was taken aback and I asked her what she meant. You see, Will [...]

Will started eating solids at just a few months old. He’s off the charts for height. He began walking at just 9 months old and talking wasn’t far behind. In fact, Will has been ahead of the curve when it comes to just about everything.
So why I am surprised by the fact that he has [...]

When I’m really hungry, I’ll eat almost anything. And yesterday that almost got me into a world of trouble.
I came home from work starving and craving something sweet. MJ had just picked up some things at the store so I started to peruse my choices. I was looking up on top of the fridge where [...]

All of the parents who are members of various Internet parenting groups I belong to have babies around the same age as Will. That means a slew of kids celebrating their first birthdays. And surprisingly (at least to me), it translates into a tsunami of emotion and crying.
I just don’t get it.
All of these moms [...]