Tantrums and the Crying Couch

Our new house has a fab reading/sun room from which Punditdad can read the paper, drink coffee in the morning and survey his tiny kingdom while getting some inkling of the coming weather that day.  The room is suitable for the Bean’s toys, books and whatever other crap she has in those boxes.  This is [...]

Whine Isn’t Just a Drink for Dinner

Punditdad has had it up to here with whining. Both from his toddler and from the people out in the place we call the world.  People are too wimpy to really be angry but too bored to let things pass.  Our darling daughter gets instant R-E-S-P-E-C-T if she screams at TOP volume if you give [...]

What’s Your Angle Daddy?

Sheesh, in the time that I’ve taken off from moving from OC to IL the world has suddenly become covered in Stay at Home Dads.  Note this interesting article this morning in the NYTimes:
http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/27/the-daddy-shift/?hp
I know people are out there looking for stories with hooks, an angle to make the story sexier and the stay at [...]

Sweet Home Chicago

When I was a kid, I saw the Blues Brothers for the very first time maybe around 9 or 10. It had car crashes, weird dancing and a lot of sunglasses. I really loved it except for the musical interludes. Now as an adult, I think the music is what makes the movie.  Performances with [...]

The World Doesn’t Need More Mini-Me’s

When I was a bit younger and there was no TVLand, I watched a show called Family Ties on NBC.  On the show, Michael J Fox, before the movies, was a young, Reagan loving country club republican who held Nixon and the burgeoning economy of the 80’s int the highest regard.  This was in stark [...]

Stay At Home Dads Therapy Group = Park ‘N Play

Despite being a man, I’m comfortable “sharing” the challenges of being home with a child with other men. This isn’t rocket science as to why. I want to know when their kids nap, snack, scream, shit, shower and generally how they operate.  Do they keep their kids up too late or never nap them? Do [...]

Flying Solo

Flying solo is a difficult time in the Punditdad household. It means that I’m forced to be with and care for the child ALL DAY with no relief during the night for “the put down”. Somehow, when the chores of parenthood were split up, Punditdad chose feeding dinner at night and Momma chose putting to [...]

Koyaanisqatsi: Family Out of Balance

Koyaanisqatsi is a movie about urban life and technology and the profound affect those have on the Earth and our environment. In our house, life out of balance is having one parent away. Family out of balance.
I feel like we are  out of balance when my wife is gone.  Although the Bean and I spend [...]

A SAHD Sad Cell

I was in my usual Thursday mid-week escape from SAHD life at the nearest Starbucks trying to get through “Collapse” by Jared Diamond.  We pay a sitter to give me four hours of relief so I can go to the gym, do some errands and move on my own.  It’s a guilty pleasure but I’m [...]

OPP: Obnoxious Playground Parent

Now, my kid just started walking so I’m hardly one to talk but I can’t help it despite the fact that it may become hypocritical.  In fact, I’ll probably eat these words in a year or two.  But why is there so much yelling going on at the playground? Have you ever just sat and [...]