Sparing the Rod Spares Brain Cells?

Chuck Rant: Spanking your children could lead to lower IQs as reported in LiveScience.   The study took groups of children (those receiving frequent physical punishment vs. those who did not) and tested their IQs before and after a period of four years (and numerous ass beatings?).  Those spanked scored 3-5 points lower than their un-spanked [...]

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Michigan Mom Reels Under Gov Heel

An act of kindness. A Michigan mom had a ‘bad day’ the other day.   She thought she was doing fellow neighbors a favor by letting kids gather at her house in the morning while waiting for the school bus.   That was until some government official caught wind of this salacious activity and told her she needed to cease [...]

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Are Kids Overscheduled?

A Chuck Rant: It’s that time of year, yes it’s back to school. And, with the new school year, we have to listen to all of the tall tales of how our kids are over-organized and overscheduled. Who are these hand wringing worrywarts who fret that children don’t have enough ‘downtime?’ And, why do we [...]

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The Benefits of Dad Being Unemployed

A Chuck Rave: According to USA Today, women are projected to overtake men in the job force by October or November of this year. Women currently hold 49.8% of the country’s 132 million jobs and that number will continue to rise. During this recession, men have been hit the hardest due to cuts in building [...]

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Car Seats: Do They Really Save Lives?

The shocking answer – yes. They do indeed. That’s not the point, though, of this next compelling study I’m about to share with you. Researchers at Massachusetts’s General Hospital found that too much time in the car seat can be detrimental to your baby’s health. You see, babies heads are like 5lb rocks attached to [...]

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Childhood’s Lost Wilderness

A Chuck Rant: In his forthcoming book, Manhood for Amateurs, Michael Chabon harkens back to his unfettered childhood and wonders what toll an overprotective, ‘safety first’ society will have on our children. Here’s a few excerpts to contemplate, as we raise a new generation of young “explorers and adventures:” The thing that strikes me now [...]

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Baby Einstein or Baby Duh-Duh

Chris says: Here’s another case of a baby information wtf; one of those things where one person says this and someone else says that. I’ve come across so many of these that’s it gets hard to know what to do or not to do. Basically, I’ve decided to just do nothing and let my baby [...]

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Another *Gasp* Bad Mommy

A Chuck Rant: Another ‘horrible’ mommy is making the news – ugggh, again. Last week, I posted in “Worst Mom Ever!,” about Lenore Skenazy, the naughty mommy who let her 9 year old ride the NYC subway all be his little lonesome. As expected, the media was beside itself with outrage. Outrage! You know, because [...]

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The REAL “date night”

Chris says: Wow Chuck, that is awesome that you guys can party like rock stars, going to swanky bars and drinking bottles o’ bub! I hope that when Owen is a year old, we can do that too.  Of course it doesn’t hurt that you have Grandma Babysitter 2 doors down! Lucky!  Here’s a picture [...]

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Date Night!

A Chuck Rant: I usually like to post early in the morning, however, last night was date night! After dropping off baby girl at the GPs, I met my beautiful wife downtown and had a fabulous time – sans baby. We made it to 9:30pm before we both started dragging and went home…to work on [...]

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