To Be A Good Dad

Diaper Bags (part 1: the style)

Aug 162011

As guys, we don’t really think about diaper bags. No really, I dare you to find any guy who’s actually thought about diaper bags…until he has a kid and realizes that he (and the wife) now have to carry around a miniature Baby’s R’ Us with them at all times.

Gentlemen, I’m here to tell you to think proactively and look for a diaper bag fits with your sensibilities, your style, and your need for function. Because whenever you go out as a family unit (mom, dad, baby), guess who’s going to be carrying said diaper bag most of the time. Yup. It’s you, pal.

A Great and True Article

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Aug 122011

A good buddy of mine sent me this article. I won’t comment any further except to say that although being compared to “having no husband at all” doesn’t seem like high praise, Dad’s sometimes get the short shrift on our contributions from our most-definitely-overburdened-and-underappreciated-and-frazzled wives, so it’s nice to get some recognition Smile .

Don’t Stress Mom

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Aug 082011

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Important safety note to those of you who are expecting to be new dads. According to this article, children born from women who are stressed out during pregnancy have shorter telomeres which is an indication of accelerated aging.

Be a Good Man, and Do Great Things

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Aug 082011

August 8, 2011

Dear Nathan

This is the first of many letters that I will be writing to you. None of us know how long we have on this earth, and as we grow and as we experience life we learn different things and develop different understanding of things. I know that you’re too young to read this and understand this now, and I don’t know exactly when you will be old enough to do that, but I hope that through these letters you will gain and understanding and some small wisdom about life, the universe, and everything – or at least as your old man saw them at these points in his life. Hopefully, when we’re all older and grayer we can look back upon these with fond memory and mature reflection.

The first of many things I want to talk to you about is what you will do with your life. Sure, you’re only 12 weeks old, and this is way too early to be talking about such things, I’m sure. But this has been on my mind lately and I want to put it on paper before these ideas evaporate in the midst of the midnight feedings, the workaday life, and the daily grind. I hope that you will come to understand and remember and base your life on a very simply mantra and I’ve developed over the years. I also hope that I am successful in using this mantra to guide your growth and development – not to mention live and exemplify it myself. What is this mantra? It’s this: as your family and your parents, your mother and I will always love you and support you. We will support you no matter what you want to be or want to do with your life, but whatever it happens to be, always strive to be a good man, and to do great things.

Dear Nathan

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Jul 292011

I’m going to start a series of posts that I am going to write where the intended audience will be my son Nathan. I don’t know when he’ll be old enough to read these words, or be old enough to understand or appreciate them. But when he is, I hope that he finds them comforting, illuminating, funny, and poignant. I hope he finds some small wisdom in them, delivered to him from his old man when his old man wasn’t so old, and maybe he’ll see what his Dad’s thoughts were and even how they may have changed over the years.

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