A Dude’s Guide

Fatherhood advice and topics from dads.

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Playtime

July 1st, 2009 · No Comments · A Dude's Guide to Babies

For a lot of dudes, the responsibility for a kid ends once they get their partner pregnant. After that, they think, it’s a woman’s job. Barry and I, rather obviously, disagree with that.
It’s the responsibility of every dude with a kid to spend as much time as possible with that kid. She’s going to need [...]

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Lock, Stock And Barrel

May 7th, 2009 · No Comments · A Dude's Guide to Kids, A Dude's Guide to Marriage

In the spirit of The Graduate, let me give you parents out there one word of advice: Locks.
No, I’m not kidding. If you want to have any kind of sex life with your wife and/or girlfriend, you need to know that your very best friend is going to be a working lock on your bedroom [...]

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Lagniappe

March 31st, 2009 · No Comments · A Dude's Guide to Marriage

Lagniappe is a word used mostly in southern Louisana and southeastern Texas and it means a little something extra. Normally, it’s something you get for free when you buy something else. Say you order the gumbo and the restaurant brings it out with a healthy serving of the cheese bread the chef just baked, that [...]

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