When people learned we were expecting our fourth kid in just over 6 years, the typical reaction, after the congratulations, was something like Wow, you’re crazy, I have my hands full enough with one/two/three, I can’t imagine what four would be like. Now that Thing 4 has finally arrived and I ...

For those of you who have been following SuburbanDaddy for awhile, I’d like to introduce the newest addition, Thing 4! I’m not sure which is bigger news – that there is a Thing 4, or that Thing 4 is a girl. I’m happy that with three older brothers she will ...

I was digging through a pile of schoolwork that Fury has brought home over the past couple years and realized that a parent can learn a whole lot more than simply how well his kid is doing in school. Look at this, for example: I learned that ...

Unless you've been wearing your white, pointy hood backwards, there's no new news to see here. I just wanted to write that headline. Minority births on track to outnumber white births [washingtonpost.com]...

And another thing… What’s with all the crying?! Yes, it’s another thing no one told me about when I signed up for this gig. As I told you, I didn’t know to get the owners manual like everyone else did when we had our first daughter. And I was too tired to ...

New Mom or a Mom again? Start packing! There is no better way to celebrate the new arrival in your family than by introducing them to Jamaica and FDR Resorts, where your family will hopefully return again and again. To celebrate your new addition, the all inclusive ...

"Let's be frank - your seal of approval was on many of the recalled cribs in recent years." Wow, have you read the speech CPSC Chairwoman Inez Tenenbaum made Wednesday at the Juvenile Product Manufacturers Association "Washington Summit"? It's nothing...

The NY Times has breathless, slightly dangerous account of traveling into the exotic, unwaxed, third world-y wilds of babywearing. Well, technically, they just visited some basecamps on Park Avenue and 7th Avenue, Brooklyn to meet some intrepid adventuresses. And considering...

Internets, I have a bit of a guilty conscience and have had for some time. I think I have to come clean. I wrote at least once last week about the hours - or lack thereof - available to me in the day. I think we all came to ...

Over the past few months, Princess P has been using an online, animated series of lessons to learn to read... or at least start recognizing more words. Since I deal with online learning on an almost daily basis at work, I was curious to see how ...