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A recent survey by Jockey brand underwear survey (Insert PR accolades here) names the following dads as intensely viewable in their underwear. This is not me talking, but rather 1000 “people” 18 or over in a random telephone survey. And the winners are: Brad Pitt – 29% Matthew McConaughey – 24% Hug Jackman 16% Will Smith – 16% Barack Obama – 13% The survey also actually queried whether people thought Obama would want boxers, boxer briefs or briefs as a gift for Fathers Day. I won’t titillate you with what style underwear most Americans fantasize our president wears. I actually don’t recall getting the nomination form for this survey, which may explain...

Lisa Belkin gives a good round-up of where Mother’s Day money is spent and what mom’s really want. She also lists the worst presents, toting up examples of just plain dumb stuff, like long term care insurance or socks. Wow, that is stupid. She sums up with her own conclusion, which would probably go for most dads I know (or at least this one). What do I want for Mother’s Day? To have someone else cook dinner. To get hugs from my boys — even the youngest who doesn’t like giving them so much anymore. And to take a long afternoon nap — without anyone noting whether or not I snore. [From What I Don’t Want for Mother’s Day - Motherlode Blog - NYTimes.com] After the weekly...

If you’ve read Ian Frazier in The New Yorker or elsewhere, you’ll know he has a real ability to satirize situations in a unique manner. If you’ve ever fantasized that you should be the Moses, King Solomon, or maybe King David, you’ll enjoy the longer piece the following extract comes from in the Atlantic. I read it to my kids and my five year-old enjoyed my solemn and Sunday school-like reading, but my nine year-old understood all the thinly veiled references to admonishments parents make every day and we had a good chuckle together about it. On Screaming Do not scream; for it is as if you scream all the time. If you are given a plate on which two foods you do not wish...

I found this during my daily Google troll on the words “stay at home dad” and was introduced to the work of Jon Lajoie, a Canadian singer and comedian. Most of his other videos are funny, but are not meant for “General Audiences.” This one, however, is a crafty rap song with heavy metal guitar riffs on the life of a stay at home dad. Nothing new in here except that the production values and his sincerity belting out the lyrics (“I don’t do drugs. I get high on baby hugs.”) are impressive. Other videos show his skill at touching introspective ballads that always take a salacious turn after a few verses. I have to admit to laughing out loud at some of them.

My five year old boy and I are already mixing it up, as I try to get toys off the dinner table or ask him to put the lego down and brush his teeth. He’s now yelling back at me, “You’re not the boss of me! You’re the boss of yourself!” I’ve had to tell him I will be the boss of him for at least a few more years, but I’m also trying to figure out how to negotiate this power battle. He probably already knows I have a weak spot – I hate it when he says I “always” yell at him. Of course, I don’t. But I do worry that that will either be a big memory for him, or a childhood leitmotif. My nine year old daughter asked me, “What does...

Move over Octomom: We found a dad with 86 kids! And you think Octomom has her hands full. The aptly named Daad Abdul Rahamn claims to be the patriarch of the largest family in the world. The 63-year-old Dubai resident has 86 children–and two more on the way. [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? That’s so many kids, I doubt if he can remember all their names. I also don’t know if this statistic really says that much about his fertility…

Leave it to The Onion to turn time-tested “get involved and interested” advice into sarcasm. You’ll likely smile while reading this piece since it’s the little devil sitting on your shoulder when you’ re trying to read the paper and your daughter wants to relate the entire plot line, page by page, of the shallow book she is reading. Being a parent isn’t easy. If you’re anything like me, you know it’s hard to find enough hours in the day for working, sleeping, and raising the kids. But leading psychologists agree that taking an active role in your child’s burgeoning interests is crucial to their development. So, regardless of how busy your...

I guess the mom was screening for head size and not total body length. She’s lucky she didn’t have a five foot long baby though, with this history. CHIFENG, China, Nov. 19 (UPI) — The world’s tallest man, who hails from China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region, said he has become the world’s tallest dad at the age of 58. Bao Xishun, who stands at 7 feet and 9 inches tall, said his newborn son, Tianyou, was born at an average 22-inch height, The Sun reported Wednesday. [From World's tallest man becomes tallest dad - UPI.com]

Is Motherhood sacred? Is Demi Moore a mother? Is Demi Moore sacred? Are breasts sacred? Is “The Office” sacred? These are all questions being debated with the recent issue of Pregnancy (November 2008) which celebrates Melora Hardin (Jan in The Office) and her pregnancy. We’ll all have to keep guessing whose hands those are over her soon-to-be nursing boobies (Michael’s?), or whether this is just a good photoshop effort. {democracy:6}