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Being the person I want my son to become

September 3, 2012

OK, son, as you know, much of this blog is about me trying to keep you from becoming me. One might try and accuse me of just trying to make my own life easier by keeping you from terrorizing me the way I terrorized my parents. That may be the case for other bloggers, but […]

Learn to guilt trip your kids like the masters

August 28, 2012

Welcome to this week’s instalment of WTF Wednesday, where we answer the questions the other guys won’t touch. That is probably why they have big sponsorship deals and guest appearances on Oprah and I’m still working my day job and wearing last week’s underwear. I’m starting to rethink my business model. It was […]

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

August 22, 2012

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 […]

Exhibitionist potty training: the pros and cons

August 15, 2012

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 […]

Parenting advice: 18 things Google thinks I know

August 8, 2012

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 […]

Six important considerations before deciding to have children

August 1, 2012

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 […]