The History of Rock in 100 Riffs
My son loves music. A few weeks ago we bought him a little wooden guitar to play around with, and for the 18 hours he had it, he wouldn’t let it go; he actually wanted to sleep next to it in his crib....
View ArticleLife Imitates Advertising
In this age of iPods and Spotify, maybe you don’t remember Maxell. This should jog your memory: MomandBuried and I were bored on a rainy day, and the kid was unusually cooperative. Besides, he was...
View ArticleHey Snooki: Parents Can Have Fun Too
So Snooki had a kid. *Sigh* Look, there are plenty of people out there who have kids that maybe shouldn’t or maybe don’t want to – maybe don’t even mean to – and end up being great parents anyway. So...
View ArticlePatiently Waiting for Patience
I like Guns N’ Roses. Appetite For Destruction is one of the best albums of the 80s, and even the bloated Use Your Illusion double album has a lot of great songs on it. If you want, I’ll even defend...
View ArticleTop 10 Reasons Why I Love My Son
Weeks ago, I wrote a facetious post about why I hate my son. Despite the title, it shouldn’t have taken long for most readers to realize the post wasn’t about hating my son at all, but was actually...
View ArticleHe Speaks Jive
“Little kids are sponges.” You hear it all the time, and it’s true. My son’s vocabulary increases every day, and most of what he’s learning he gets right from Mom and Dad, such as his first “curse”...
View ArticleLike Father (and Mother), Like Son
Parenting isn’t a competition. When it comes to raising kids, comparing how you’re doing to other parents or measuring your kid’s development against others their age is just not a good idea. Children...
View ArticlePop Vulture
A lot of things have changed since I became a father. I drink less, I curse less, I sleep less… Of course, many of those things likely would have been changing anyway, by virtue of age and maturity...
View ArticleWords With Toddlers
In certain situations, say, a dinner party, or a funeral, conventional wisdom holds that some subject matter is off-limits. Some topics are just a tad more provocative than others and have a tendency...
View ArticleDream Cheater
I recently read Keith Richards’s autobiography. I read it to learn more about the recording of some of his band’s seminal albums, and about how he survived doing so many drugs but it got me thinking...
View ArticleBe All That You Can Be (Except One of the Following)
I’ve been writing a lot about the dreams my son may have as he grows up and the way life may dash them. But the fact is, despite how hard it is to become a rock star, or how unlikely it may be that he...
View ArticleThe Toddler’s New Clothes
First things first: I am NOT advocating for a society in which our toddlers run around buck-naked all the time. That’s insane. But I do have some ideas about children’s dress codes. My kid is growing...
View ArticleHard Days’ Nights
Today is my birthday. I know; I don’t care either. I’m not going to whine about how old I am or anything. Age ain’t nothing but a mile marker on the highway to eternal nothingness, am I right? And...
View ArticleConcession Stand
Mom and Buried and I spent the weekend enjoying a local music festival. We knew from the start that Detective Munch wouldn’t be accompanying us to the many night-time shows, but – because we wanted him...
View ArticleSix Ways Having Kids is Like Not Having Kids
By pure coincidence, I’ve already written two posts this week that have “six” in the title, both uncharacteristically nice (here’s the first one and here’s the second one. I figured I’d make it an even...
View ArticleEleven Things Everyone Hates About Parents
Parents are the worst. Actually, politicians are probably the worst. And other people’s kids suck pretty bad too. And Nazis. In fact, I changed my mind. I’m going to go out on a limb and say the Nazis...
View ArticleIt Takes “The Village”
They say that it takes a village to raise a child, and I’m inclined to agree. Mostly because it’s impossible to prevent other people from having a hand in the education and development of your...
View ArticleThe Secret Villains of FROZEN
Like tons of little kids this winter, my son loves Frozen. Until recently, he’d never been to a movie theater. But he’s shown the attention to span to watch full movies at home (the usual Pixar...
View ArticleLink Envy: “True Detective” Conversations
So I’ve become relatively obsessed with HBO’s “True Detective”. I got on the bandwagon a little bit late, but after spending the past week catching up on the season, I won’t be hopping off of it...
View Article“The (Baby) Weight”
As a youngster, I used to enjoy writing “Weird Al”-style song parodies. I wrote one that changed the title of one of my favorite Saturday morning cartoons to “Muppet Rabies”. I told a story about a...
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