10 Things Your Family Can Do Without

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8. Chuck E. Cheese:It’s irritating, dirty, the pizza sucks and kids would have more fun with a killer party you put together in your backyard.

Time is Running Out

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Soon, the chaos will be gone. And you’ll wish you could have it back.

When I’m A Grown Up, You’ll Be Dead

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In one day I don’t think you can get a better example of a lifetime of having kids.

The Tools to Survive

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There’s nothing better in life than finding out you’re capable of more than you thought.

Don’t Be THAT Parent

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We all know the one. The one who had snack time taken out of your kid’s class because her kid always felt like he didn’t have the best snack.

10 Tips for Kids’ Coaches

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Craig Playstead has 20 years’ experience coaching youth sport teams. He’s learned a few things along the way.

The Great Football Debate

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Football is awesome, but it can be brutal. Would you let your son play?

Losing Puts Hair on Your Chest

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Don’t teach your kids to tolerate losing. Teach them to grow a pair. They’ll learn a whole lot more.

How to Beat Bullying

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I remember getting repeatedly punched, and another friend getting his clothes taken from him. And no one did anything.

5 Tips for New and Expectant Fathers

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2. Buy a protective cup.

Why Aren’t Your Kids in School?

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Each president who takes over touts education as a major priority and each one proves to be blowing smoke up our collective skirt.

My Dad, My Hero

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I suddenly had visions of him accepting an Oscar and thanking the biggest influence in his life: me.

Stop and Smell the Scotch

I feel like this is what I see in the mirror some days.

The last time you looked in the mirror, what did you see?

The Best Thing You Can Teach Your Kids

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Our generation tends to overdo it when “Junior” scrapes the low end of mediocrity, and that’s a recipe for disaster as kids try and make it in the real world.

How to Name Your Kids

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Parents are getting too cutesy and saddling kids with names that will haunt them forever.

Oh, My Nuts!!

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With his big, bucktoothed smile, he grabbed his crotch and yelled out in hysterics, “My nuts!! Oh, my nuts!!”