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If, like many dads, you count on a good cup of Joe to keep up with the kids, this is good news for you and your overall health. … The heavenly brew, once deemed harmful to health, is turning out to be, if not quite a health food, at least a low-risk drink, and in many ways a beneficial one. … Lots of new research, and the recognition that older, negative studies often failed to tease apart the effects of coffee and those of smoking because so many coffee drinkers were also smokers.
Category Archives: In the News
Survey: Adult Children Choose Mom Over Dad – It’s not what you think…
May 6, 2009 – 12:38 pm
This article just says that moms make better house guests when they get older and need to be taken care of. I know I’m a curmudgeon when I get sick, so might have to imagine old guys are less fun than older moms, but have no strong opinions in this area. Just in time for Mother’s Day, the national poll found 70% of adult children would overwhelmingly choose their mom over their dad to move in with them if their elderly parents could not take care of themselves.
Watch out for FBstarter phishing scam. It gets your Facebook login and sends emails to everyone in your address book.
April 30, 2009 – 12:10 pm
This scam starts with a nice greeting from a friend saying to check out FBstarter.com. It’s amazing how such a short message is actually more compelling than a long Nigerian tale of corruption and greed. I dutifully, COPIED AND PASTED the URL in my browser and got what looked to be a login page for Facebook, only the URL was FBstarter.com.
Who’s better at teaching kids to drive? Mom or dad?
March 13, 2009 – 9:33 am
Teaching a teenager to drive is as much a rite of passage for the parent as it is for the kid. … In their very unscientific poll of 1,387 adults, 52 percent said fathers were better at the difficult task, while only 24 percent thought moms were better at the job. … ] This is clearly not a scientific study, or even anything beyond a controversy starter, but it’s funny that people are always trying to figure out which parent is “better” at one thing or another.
The 7 Websites Every Man Should Be Reading | MakeUseOf.com
March 13, 2009 – 9:17 am
Not just sire a kid or six, but to become the kind of father that your son wants to be, or your daughter wants to marry. It’s not the easiest thing to do and is just as challenging as being a great mom is for women. … It’s one website you should add to your daily reading if you are, or hope to become, a dad.
Okay, but he’s not competing with Octo-Dad
March 12, 2009 – 10:05 am
The aptly named Daad Abdul Rahamn claims to be the patriarch of the largest family in the world. … [From The Mommy Files : Move over Octomom: We found a dad with 86 kids!
… Yeah, having 86 kids is a lot, but it’s not like he gave birth to them all at once, or probably actively cares for them all – how could he?
Older Dads Father Dumber Kids?
March 10, 2009 – 7:35 am
A recently released study finds that children of older dads score lower on IQ tests even after weighing socioeconomic factors. Australian and US researchers analyzed test results of more than 33,000 US born children born to fathers between the ages of 14 and 66.
… The lead author, John McGrath says that he was surprised by the results, since a lot of the “blame” for DNA errors usually goes to older eggs in the mom.
Because Dads take different photos than Moms
March 9, 2009 – 1:21 pm
A report from the Online Journalism Review made a splash in March 2007 when it reported an eye-tracking study that looked at where viewers glanced on a given news page on the web. When presented with an image of a figure, females most often looked at the face, while males focused both on the face and the crotch. … When presented with an image, women looked for longer periods of time at fewer places, while men’s eyes moved more frequently over the image.
Working Dad: Work-life balance is suffering from economic stress
February 20, 2009 – 2:39 pm
When things are good, and managers are afraid of losing good and even mediocre players, parents have more freedom to be there for their kids. The corporation and the bottom line doesn’t really care though if your child has a runny nose or if you need to bond with your baby. … Moms and dads will have to work even harder to be there for the family, making sacrifices even if both have good jobs and want to keep them until we’re out of this thing, whenever that is.
Watchdog Group Says Scholastic Is Selling Not Just Books to Children – NYTimes.com
February 15, 2009 – 5:34 pm
Scholastic Inc., the children’s publisher of favorites like the Harry Potter, Goosebumps and Clifford series, may be best known for its books, but a consumer watchdog group accuses the company of using its classroom book clubs to push video games, jewelry kits and toy cars.
… While we like a lot of books Scholastic publishes, and their program to provide books to schools, it’s hard not to be quite miffed when we receive what is basically a toy catalog about three times each school year. … You have to go through every page of your child’s choices to determine whether they are a good choice for your child.