Yeah, I'll admit it.. I'm a baby. A big one. The slightest sign of a sniffle and I'm locked on the couch with a remote control. Don't ask me to help with a diaper, take out the trash or lift my feet for the vacuum, I'm a man and I'm sick.
A funny thing happened on the way home from school the other day, a friend told me; she was doing the usual carpool duty escorting a flock of grade two children home when a song from Rihanna came on the radio.
The mom had bopped along to the track in her head for a few weeks, but the chorus coming from the back seats of her Odyssey almost stopped her dead in the highway.
Men don't get the whole "shower" thing. A bunch of hens getting together to shower a friend in gifts because a big event is happening in their lives? Big deal - can't we just go golfing and have a barbecue?
Shower season means all sorts of cucumber sandwiches without the crust will be served alongside diaper cakes and blue or pink martinis.
Telus' Optik TV is rolling out Baby TV starting today. They're trumpeting it with press releases, but is it a good thing? TV targeted at not only toddlers, but babies?
Look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself how you really feel about being a parent. Is your life complete? Are you happier than you were before you had kids? Would you change anything?
My 15 years online has let me create YouTube channels, Twitter accounts, Facebook pages, email addresses and blogs for my sons. It's given me the skills to create small movies about their everyday accomplishments and the savvy to continuously play them back in the living room on our Apple TV. Who wants to watch Dora on an adventure when you can watch yourself on one?
Mother's Day is another one of those holidays where men must genuflect before the important women in their life and apologize.
Just as with Valentine's Day, the impetus of Mother's Day lies on the man to stop down and say "Woah, I really don't appreciate anything you do 363 days of the year."
Election day is here. While apathy may have set in with our 4th election in 7 years, I'm still doing my best to try and instill the habit of voting in my sons.
Zacharie has been “lucky,” if you will. With so many minority governments in succession, he's been to the ballot box more than I ever did when I grew up.
Never mind the politics, what are these leaders like as parents? Many in the Yummy Mummy Club are wanting to #momthevote by raising family issues in the current campaign. Let’s take it one step further to find out just what kind of parents these leaders are as I try to #dadthevote.
I do the grocery shopping in our house. I find it relaxing, peaceful and I take the art of the deal very very seriously. I bring along my son, Zacharie, and it's a blissful 90mins of Father/Son time each week.
I have no idea how my 3 and a half year old survives. He has just a few main food groups: veggie dogs, plain noodles, cucumber sushi and cereal.
Every now and again he'll grab a banana or slurp up some tomato soup or apple sauce, but basically his meals are pretty bland and of the same thing. Everytime.
We just got back from an all inclusive in Mexico and tried to use the deep and varied buffet each night as a way to get him to spread his tastebuds wide and try different things.
Hello Yummy Mummies, mind if a Dad crashes the party?
My name is Buzz (okay, you guessed it, not my real name, but it's the one I've used on the radio for 20 years now, so work with me). I do a morning radio show in Calgary and my wife, Jennifer, and I have two gorgeous boys - Zacharie (just about 4) and Charles (just past 1).
I've been writing online for the past 15 years, mostly about technology, then about personal stuff and when I was faced with some unemployment in the summer of 09, I decided to start writing about my kids.
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