From a Dad: Three Cool Things and One Warning for Raising Babies

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The first time your baby signs “more” during a meal, you will flip out.

Baby Stuff

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In this installment of “Love, Recorded,” Matt faces his fears and buys a doll for his daughter, which gets him thinking about the stuff we accumulate, the sacrifices we make as our lives change, and what makes us human.

Cool Mom Reads to Her Son

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Comic and SAHM Daphne Brogdon talks poop and hugs with her boy.

What It Means to Be Baptized

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In this installment of “Love, Recorded,” Matt and Cathreen come up against original sin and what it means to be a good or bad parent.

The Morning I Sh*t Myself

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When you gotta go, sometimes you still don’t go.

A Story Without a Baby, a Near Drowning

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In this installment of “Love, Recorded,” Matt and Cathreen take their one and only vacation away from the baby. And still Matt can’t get away from the fears of fatherhood. Though it’s his own fault, really.

What I Have Learned About Babies

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In the first month with the “Love, Recorded” baby, Matt’s in-laws return, poop is discussed with great seriousness, crying is everywhere and sleep is nowhere.

10 Things Every New Father Should Know

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The “Love, Recorded” guide to being a new daddy.

Sh#t Washes

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If we had a video camera at the time, we’d have been ten thousand dollars richer.

The 10 at 10

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Bacon could win you an iPad, gas is cheaper in Mexico, and a cake will tell you your baby’s gender.

Deuce Mania: A Men’s Movement

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What’s up with guys and their bathroom rituals? Tom Matlack and others debate the finer points of mercy flushing, potty-training, and TP substitutes.

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The Never Ending Job

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If every dad had to interview for the job, it might go something like this.

27 Things I’ve Learned as a Father of Triplets

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1. Along with sporting events and campfires, babies are the biggest reason why the hot dog industry is still alive and kicking.

A Touchy Subject

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You may have an unhealthily Puritanical aversion to your body’s various parts and functions, but children don’t. Children are free and open with their bodies and have no time for your squeamishness.

Dads Just Need to Step Up

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My entire edifice of being a man, being in control, being a good dad, being competent and skilled as a father just crumbled.

Scared Sh*tless

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I gave my son such a start that he crapped himself. That’s right. I’m a father who has literally scared the shit out of his son.