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Usually, I don’t like to copy/paste reasons for doing anything from a manufacturer. However, these reasons just...

It’s almost always a good idea to shop used, especially for kid stuff, since they grow out of it so quickly. However,...

In Forty Weeks of Keeping Your Head Down Bill Bounds has written an entertaining first person look at the baby process. This genre, pioneered by Grant Eppler in What to Expect When She’s Expecting, gives the reader a very personal view of what happens on the long road of pregnancy. While Bounds’ experiences are personal, his experience is common to us all, complete with OB/GYN visits, scary moments, and the eventual joy of a birth scene. Other new dads can read the book front to back, or pick up and scan the chapters for approaching or familiar territory. Forty Weeks of Keeping Your Head Down is organized in short chapters, with titles that are sometimes very clear on content, and...

Doogie Howser is all grown up and ready to be a dad. Doogie, AKA Neil Patrick Harris, 37, and long time partner David Burtka will be doubling their family by two. According to E! Online, the couple used a surrogate.    “So, get this: David and I are expecting twins this fall,” Harris tweeted. “We’re super excited/nervous/thrilled. Hoping the press can respect our privacy…” Harris is currently starring in “How I Met Your Mother.” At the age of 16 in 1989, he starred in Doogie Howser, M.D., for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe. The show ran for four years.

Rod Stewart will be a dad for the 7th time, reports People magazine. The 65-year-old rocker and his 39-year-old model wife Penny Lancaster, will be having a baby. The couple already has one one child together, 4-year-old son Alastair. Rod Stewart has five other kids from past relationships. Said Stewart in a released statement, “We were thrilled and delighted to be able to tell Alastair that he was going to be the big brother to a little baby, expected just before Mummy’s 40th birthday.”

Small, but conclusive findings show that the dad bond is important in teaching kids how to deal with the little frustrations of the day. The team found that men who reported poorer relationships with their fathers were 4 percent more likely than other men to report encountering stress during the day. They were also more likely, by an undetermined amount, to develop a bad mood or health problems after encountering daily stress. The difference may sound small, “but it’s enough to really affect your quality of life,” according to Mallers. Read the full story in Business Week: Bond With Dad May Play Role in Whether Men ‘Stress Out’

Another candidate for “Worst Dad of the year,” this guy just couldn’t resist a little tickle of the delivery nurse as his wife was being wheeled into the delivery room. This guy was sentenced to six months in the pokey, and missed out on the delivery as he was hauled away. The defense attorney claimed his client was prone to blackouts. What man can’t say he isn’t “prone to crazed sex blackouts,” but, really…? Outside the delivery room?! I can safely say that that is one day that most dads have very few, if any, thoughts about sex. And that’s true for even the sexy nurse fantasists among us. [From Utah dad sentenced for...

DAD SAID: ‘IT’S GREAT UP HERE’.. THEN FELL – mirror.co.uk I just took my daughter parasailing in Hawaii. Several days before, I spent a ton of time researching whether there are ever accidents and if I was the worst dad ever for thinking of taking my nine year old daughter on a ride a couple hundred feet over the Pacific. The more I read, the better I felt though. Accidents like the one described here, which is about as horrible as they come, appear to now only happen outside the US, where there are few if any controls. I would never think of parasailing in Mexico, for example. The day of, we spent about two hours waiting for the winds to calm down so we could take our turn....

Usually, I don’t like to copy/paste reasons for doing anything from a manufacturer. However, these reasons just seem so obvious that they merit posting. More and more parents are turning to cloth diapers for the benefits they provide to their baby and their baby’s environment. Full disclosure, we did NOT cloth-diaper our babies. We bought into the corporate side of the argument and the now-discredited study that showed no environmental difference between cloth diapering and disposable diapers. That might have been a “possible” argument before the advent of new systems that use very thin disposable liners to keep the poop off clothes and the reusable underpants. It’s almost worth...

and I’ll be speaking too on Day 2! Modern Media Man Summit is proud to announce that baseball’s all-time Iron Man, Cal Ripken, will be where he spent his baseball career–in the opening line up–when he joins in the first ever men and dads blogging conference in Atlanta Sept. 9, 2010. During his opening visit, M3 is offering the first 20 purchasers of VIP ticket package using the Code RIPKEN in all caps, a chance to save $200 on the cost of the weekend’s events, but also entrance into a drawing where one lucky winner will receive the chance to have an individual photograph with the baseball legend. [From Cal Ripken To Throw Opening Pitch At M3 Summit | M3 Summit] More...

I’ve been in the internet for 15 years, worked in data security at Visa, and most recently at Yahoo!, and still I was “phished” by a Yahoo! ID scam a few weeks ago. It was pretty tame stuff. The scammers sent an email with another phishing link to my entire address book, but did not appear to do any other damage before I changed my password. With all the data we all keep, not to mention the data of our “friends,” it’s best to always stay guarded when tempted to enter your password online. Here’s the new ones going around, courtesy of Mashable: The first one contains the message: “OMG!! Guys, you have to see this: This mother went to...

The smell of Play-Doh brings me back to when I was about 7 – playing at the table…making sure to make precise cuts with a plastic knife…listening to “Don’t mix the colors – we’ll wind up with nothing but brown!” The joys of childhood in clay form. Of course, Play-Doh has really reinvented themselves since I was 7 (that’s a harsh thing to write and then realize it’s true). No longer is the spaghetti press the only accessory – now, they have different sets, molds, colors, and anything else you can think of. I was happy to get the Poppin’ Movie Snacks Play-Doh set. Frankly, I think I’m more excited when we get toys than my children are;...