There’s a lot of talk about whether or not it’s cool to let your baby “cry it out.” I’m not going to walk onto that mine field today (maybe another day when I’ve had a couple more hours of sleep and 10x ...

Remember back in your day if you disobeyed your parents you’d most likely get a smack on the posterior with a wooden spoon?  Heck, I remember clearly the principal of my elementary school proudly displaying “the strap” on his wall. I once nearly experienced the strap myself, it was my ...

Recently we were contacted by a reader named Kevin Griffin who pointed us to a song he recorded about his daughter Cici and wondered if it warranted a blog post on FunctionalFather.com. Well, we like to reward people who are outgoing and we really have no limitations on what we ...

I always reference my archives when people ask what I was like before I was a dad. I was a completely different person. I did not want kids or to be married. I look back at that stupid kid and I want to shake him. Becoming ...