When you’re a parent and you live in an apartment you likely will have to deal with noise complaints from your neighbors. It’s almost a right of passage into toddlerhood. I had a very interesting one this morning. 8am and Jasmine, my 2 year old, was having a tantrum about us not letting her wear …
Let me lay the story for you. It’s 8:30pm about an hour or so after the kids bed time and we are just now getting them to bed. A struggle from the very start. “Put the IPads away” I say Aaliyah starts to slowly close her laptop and Dominic ignores me “Dominic put it away” …
I read so many stories of how kids need to sleep train. That kids should be going to bed by themselves even when they are still in a crib. However, sometimes they just need to be coddled, held, especially when it’s been a hard night. Since Aaliyah was born I’ve been putting her to bed …
The most important meal of the day is breakfast and the fastest way to ruin a day is a jacked up morning. So what is the key to a good morning? A good plan. How we tackle it in our house is divide and conquer. The wife get the kids ready, back up clothes for …
As a father of 3, I have some experience with being a dad. I remember the first day of entering fatherhood when I brought Aaliyah home. Seeing how small she was in her already small car seat. I remember how fragile she felt in my inexperinced arms. Being so scared doing anything with her. With …
Like night and day they say. More like heaven and hell. That’s what the differences between pregnancies can be. One thing that sets pregnancies apart is morning sickness. Some women have the worst case you could imagine. Others don’t have it at all. While other women are fine the first pregnancy and feel like dying …
I’m laying here waiting for my little girl to drift away to dreamland. One of us, my wife or I, always has to stay in the bedroom to keep our daughter company till she falls asleep. Even now at 5 years old we still do it, especially when she had a particularly bad day. I …
So in the almost 15 years I have lived in Orange County, and the 4.5 years I have been a dad, I have found the best spot to take kids trick or treating. Now we don’t go for the candy. The kids get enough of that on their school trick or treating trip. They go …
After the first few weeks your wife and you will be begging to escape the house and see real adults. The obvious choice is food because after eating home cooked meals for weeks you will drool over the idea of a meal you didn’t have to cook. Though it’s best to avoid crowds and enclosed …
