I’m always a sucker for parent/daddy news, and today stumbled upon two links worth sharing.

The first, a story that ran in the San Francisco Chronicle (my de facto hometown paper), is a friend’s positive spin on the bad news from a story in New York magazine about how people with kids tend to be more miserable than those without. Instead of piling on and complaining about how miserable she is, the author provides ten tips for becoming a happier parent. A few of the tips are inane, but most of them are chock full of good advice. Check ‘em out here.

The second piece is far more enteraining; it’s a Parenting.com blog post about a YouTube video supposedly created by the Old Spice guy (you know, the one who’s riding backwards….on a horse) for his 9-year-old daughter. No, the blogger doesn’t have proof Mr. Old Spice did the shoot for his daughter, but read her reasoning and you’ll think so too.