It’s as if The New York Times has been overrun with new parents these days.
Last week, the paper ran that article about the impacts of cone-scan technology among pediatric dentists (I blogged about it earlier this week). Since then, the Gray Lady has published two other informative-yet-disturbing articles pertaining to the development of our children.
The [...]

Little L (who celebrated her 18-month birthday yesterday, by the way) is sprouting teeth at such breakneck speed these days that we’re approaching to the point where we need to start thinking about taking her to the dentist.
Naturally, then, Powergirl and I were freaked by a lengthy and detailed story that ran in The New [...]

Thank goodness there’s a limit to what L can understand these days (though we still think she’s pretty darn smart). Otherwise, she might have laughed in my face during our pre-holiday trip to Target this morning.
We were in what I like to call the goody aisle; the aisle with all of the cakes, cookies and [...]

Most of the time my daughter is utterly fearless, barreling into new experiences with unflagging curiosity. Recently, however, particularly after my Thursday-Friday work trip to Denver, the baby has exhibited a new personality trait, too: She’s getting scared.
Literally. As in, she says, “Scared, scared,” and clutches me for dear life.
I wrote about the very first [...]

Powergirl and I are heading to Las Vegas on Thursday so I can cover the World Series of Poker final table. We’ll be gone until Sunday. Thankfully, my parents, whom L calls “Grandma” and “V,” are coming up to watch the baby in her environment here at the house.
Because my wife and I are neurotic, [...]

Since the day L was born, I’ve envisioned myself as a “cool” Dad, the kind of guy who’d escort his kid(s) to a Taylor Swift concert and allow the purchase of the same silly-but-trendy stuff that all the other kids are wearing (those new Silly Bandz bracelets, for instance).
Especially on the subject of language, because [...]

One day after L’s doctor dubbed her “advanced,” the baby responded by taking a giant step into the Terrible Twos: She threw her first official temper tantrum.
It was ugly, folks. I mean, real ugly. She screamed. She cried. She convulsed on the floor like an epileptic. At one point she even laid on the guilt, [...]

We embark Thursday on a rite of passage in my wife’s family: L’s first trip to Disneyland in Southern California.
Personally, I’m not exactly pro-Disney; I’d rather go for a hike in the woods. But considering how much our daughter likes Mickey and the gang (especially princesses such as Ariel and Cinderella), I’m actually looking forward [...]

Just when I started to feel confident in my CPR certification, news hit wires today that the American Heart Association is shaking up the long-time strategy for dealing with CPR.
Previously, the approach involved opening the victim’s airway first, starting mouth-to-mouth breathing and doing chest compressions last. Now, however, the AHA says that cardiopulmonary resuscitation should [...]

It was with great joy that Powergirl and I welcomed Pepperidge Farm Whole Grain Goldfish into L’s diet this weekend.
Then we remembered why we banned fish from this house long ago: the things are addicting.
I can’t actually estimate how many of them I’ve eaten since we introduced them with L’s lunch on Saturday. Suffice it [...]