Disciplining small children is hard. Many parents are divided on the idea of spanking vs. non-corporal punishments. Parents have told me that it’s much easier to spank a kid and move on than it is to stick to a punishment like making a child go to bed early, or enforcing no desert for a week. [...]
f you’re anything like me then you are a father that has to work hard for a living. Yes, I understand that every year more and more fathers are choosing to be, or are being forced to be the stay at home parent. But I think it’s safe to say that we are still a [...]
In an earlier podcast show I asked the question “Does your child really want to piss you off,†and the answer was a resounding yes. And as our children get older the answer is still yes. The only difference is that a three year or four old has better command of the English language than [...]
For the last several months my wife and I have been trying with very limited success to potty train our less than interested son Devin. We have been pulling our hair out trying to determine which potty training approach will be most effective for a child that is obviously intelligent enough to learn how to [...]
What’s up new dad’s! Let’s get right down to it…. Not too long ago I was picking up Devin from daycare when I had a real ah-ha moment. I have quite a few of those moments, and quite often, but this one was particularly disturbing because I should have seen it for what it was [...]