Why your kids will french kiss the dog but not share a water bottle.

August 22, 2012

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Don't get germs on my mud pie

Welcome to this week’s instalment of WTF Wednesday, where we have all the answers…as long as we have access to Google. Well, also, we’ll need the Internet parental controls turned off. Oh, and leave the password so we can delete the Web browsing history when we’re done. Today, for the first time here at Advice […]

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Exhibitionist potty training: the pros and cons

August 15, 2012

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Potty training brilliance

Welcome to this week’s instalment of WTF Wednesday, where we answer the questions you always wanted to ask a real expert but didn’t because they had no anonymous option. Today’s question comes via Twitter and was submitted by Brandon, A.K.A @therookiedad. He also blogs over at The Rookie Dad. He asks: Dear Barmy, When potty […]

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Parenting advice: 18 things Google thinks I know

August 8, 2012

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Welcome to this week’s instalment of WTF Wednesday, where we treat others as we wish to be treated ourselves: we never ask others what they were doing last night between 11:00 p.m. and roughly 2:00 a.m. I’m still travelling in a land far, far away this week. My Internet access consists of a rock on […]

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Six important considerations before deciding to have children

August 1, 2012

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They don't really mean it

Welcome to this week’s instalment of WTF Wednesday where we have way more answers than there are questions. This week I’m traveling in a land far, far away and access to the internet is spotty at best. When I do have access, the bandwidth is, well, not very wide. So I’ve decided to recycle a […]

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Masturbation. There, I said it out loud.

July 24, 2012

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Buttons gives the talk

Welcome to this week’s instalment of WTF Wednesday, where advice is just an opinion you didn’t ask for. This week’s question was sent to us via Twitter by WannabeAStayAtHomeDad, who tweets as @WannabeSAHDad and has a blog called, surprisingly, Wannabe Stay At Home Dad.  He writes, Dear Barmy, How do I teach my 8 year-old […]

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Why does mom get to paint her face?

July 22, 2012

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Why does mom get to paint her face?

Hi there, folks! A few weeks back, I posted a cartoon for which my son, Cheeky, came up with the punchline. I thought it was kind of fun letting him think up what to put in the speech bubble–and I think he did a pretty good job, too. I promised that if readers challenged him […]

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