Through nine months of parenthood, I’d say I love almost everything about this new adventure. One thing I do miss about my pre-parent life: copious amounts of piping hot coffee.
It’s not that I’ve stopped drinking java now that I’m a dad—on the contrary, I probably drink more of it now than ever before (something has [...]

In an effort to get L to socialize with other 9-month-olds on a regular basis, Powergirl and I have been searching for playgroup activities to which I can take the baby during the day.
Other cities—New York among them—offer classes specifically designed for dads who spend most of the day at home with their youngsters. The [...]

I admit: One of my guiltiest pleasures has been watching the “American Idol” singing competition every year.
This season, however, I have a major problem with the way producers want America to sympathize with a contestant who chose to fly to the Hollywood auditions instead of staying in New York to support his wife during the [...]

At the suggestion of a doctor friend, I recently signed up for recall notices from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. These notices, which appear in my email inbox every day, keep us abreast of all of the product recalls in the world of baby gear.
In November, for instance, when Stork Craft recalled all of [...]

You know what I’m tired of? I’m tired of kid-less people (sometimes even friends) who think that because I’m the father of an infant, there’s all this stuff I can’t do.
I’m tired of people who suggest that because I’m charged with caring for a baby, I can’t go drinking on weeknights, can’t do dinner [...]

It’s no secret that diapers are up there with plutonium as some of the least environmentally friendly objects on Planet Earth.
As quoted in a recent TIME magazine article, the Real Diaper Association, an advocacy group founded in 2004, estimates that 27.4 billion disposable diapers are used each year in the U.S. According to the EPA, [...]

I’m learning quickly that in infants, teeth announce their arrival like kings of old—with lots and lots of fanfare.
Last night, the spectacle took a number of heinous forms, including multiple crying fits (one of them lasted 90 minutes…at 3 a.m.), an ornery little girl and a poop explsion that somehow managed to rocket from baby [...]

The old lady’s question seemed innocent enough: “Can I take a peek at your cute baby?”
Under any other circumstances, I gladly would have welcomed the bitty into our lives and invited her to come and admire L. I might have even engaged her in small-talk about the weather.
Today, however, considering I was changing L’s diaper [...]

Never mind that I pitched the very same story to the very same section of the very same paper six months ago—this story by Douglas Quenqua in today’s Sunday Style section of The New York Times is a must-read for parents who insist on putting pictures of their kids up on Facebook.
The story, titled “Guardians [...]

If all those pink clothes don’t give it away, let me set the record straight: L, my daughter, has two X chromosomes and is therefore a female human being.
Why the disclaimer? Well, because for some ridiculous reason, an overwhelming number of strangers over the last few weeks have “mistaken” L as a boy. “How old [...]