Welcome to HowToBeADad
What We AREN’T
If you were looking for a website telling you how to be a dad… You didn’t find it. We aren’t experts in “dadology.” We aren’t even sure such a thing exists. We’re just here to tell you that being a parent sometimes means experiencing things without an authority, letting love and humor get you through. For those other times, we recommend a sturdy helmet.
- Charlie & Andy, The Dads
See our over-produced About Page for the inside skinny.
NOTEBOOK
Our commentary, our experiments, our failures (more often than not) and our experiences in the field. Except for the ones our wives won’t let us share. This is our lives as dads. Here are some popular Notebook posts:
INSTRUCTIONAL DIAGRAMS
Put on a mask and grab some disinfectant, this is our extremely viral content. Is there a word for the opposite of “educational”? That’s what these are. These diagrams illustrate why caffeine and insomnia don’t mix well.
SNAPSHOTS
Pretty self explanatory, no? These are pictures. If you want us to draw you something explaining what this means, go ahead and write us an email.
“MY WIFE JUST SAID…”
You just can’t invent the stuff that comes out of a woman’s mouth once she’s “passed a watermelon through the pinhole,” ceased sleeping and is married to you. Or one of us.
“MY KID JUST SAID…”
The things our boys say are crazy, cute, brilliant or D) all of the above. So how could we resist sharing the majesty!
EXTERNAL USE ONLY
Ever stumble on something noteworthy online? Neither do we, but this is all of that stuff. Stuff we didn’t author ourselves.
VIDEOTAPE
This is our video section. It’s pretty thin right now, but we’ve got big plans for this section. We want all of the amazing, viral content that we have in our Instructional Diagrams, but moving around. With people. Us. It’s going to be rad and its going to be soon. Stay tuned…
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69 Responses to “Welcome to HowToBeADad”
Hi Andy & Charlie,
Very entertaining site!! Thanks for the laughs and keep up the good work.
Alan
Just found your site — love it! Adding to my Google Reader : )
And we you love you for loving our site! This is the one gift you can definitely re-gift to your friends.
I have bestowed upon you the Versatile Blogger Award! Please stop by here to pick it up! http://www.myhusbandateallmyicecream.com/2011/05/versatile-blogger-award-take-2.html
Love the welcome Mat!!! Just kicked off my heels and sat down, feeling right at home. Looking forward to the self deprecating humor. Forgive me if I nap, it’s a compliment I promise. Hugs!!! Mama Marlaine
Hi guys – Happy 4th to all from England. Just came across this site thro’ Twitter and am intrigued if a little nervous LOL Am the 52-year old proud parent of a 12-year old girl…..look forward to chatting, exchanging, networking and all those other idioms that you young folks use…..LOL What do I like ? Hmmm……beer and the Grateful Dead for starters
Have a happy forever….
Hey Charlie and Andy,
Great blog. Really enjoying your posts and the design. Well done.
I don’t blog about being a dad except where it fits in with my company blog, The Wire. I’m a dad of nearly 4 y/o triplets and I live in So Cal. I also run an ad agency and presently developing a new social good company.
So, I’m busy. Since you won’t have all the answers for me, I’m hoping to get a laugh or two from your site as I already have. Also, if you figure out where to live other than LA, let me know.
Cheers!
Zack
Great blog! Just became a 3rd time Dad at 40 so this site keeps me amused at 3am.
Thanks and congrats! We’ll try to keep you three times amused.
At 3am and beyond.
Hi guys!
Awsome site. Enjoying minutes spending here. I’m a dad of Frank 3 y/o and Philip 1 y/o.
Greets from Poland!
Take care, keep it doing!
D.
My older brother and I swap hilarious webpages throughout the workday. In celebration of my upcoming fatherhood (1st child, due March 2012) he pointed me here, sighting how my baby is like a Zombie. I’ve been hooked ever since.
Thanks for the laughs, looking for sound guidance, if not a respite of hilarity from the chaos of my new life choice.
Hilarity, we might have you covered. Guidance? GPS is your only sound solution. Hopefully, you can laugh your way through the chaos. That’s what we’re doin’…
But we’re glad to have you join the ranks of dads. Stay strong.
Hi all,
Amazing website, I love the concept.
I am a soon to be father, due date is early Feb.
Have bookmarked your site and registered for updates, and i cant wait for them.
Regards from Israel.
Just found your site at Top Twitter Moms of 2011…love it, you should win
We’re getting such a kick out of being in the list of Top Twitter Moms! It’s hilarious and an honor, a rare combo. Thanks for the support!
Just found you all very funny just had my first a baby girl Jodie by name she arrived April 8th 2011. Truly lost and if I can’t get help at least I can get funny.
You came to the right place. For funny.
Welcome!
Great stuff the “H” article brought me here from a friends fb post and I am loving it. Good to see that I am not the only one who sees the humorous side of parenting, keep up the good work.
Hey, glad I found this place! Can’t wait to dig deeper…
Go for it! Use this one, and you’ll fly through it! (Or put a savage hole in your computer screen)
Just found you guys! Hilarity! My husband and I were up till the wee hours of the morning cycling between laughing hysterically and rocking our son back to sleep.
JOY! Thanks. We’ll keep you waking up your kid with laughter.
A friend shared your “zombie vs. baby” on facebook and I found my way to your site. I’m a Mr. Mom for a 5yo and 18mo. and have been laughing my ass off for the last 30 min. Keep it up! I will visit your site often.
We love you long time, Alan. Come all you like. You’re welcome to stay rent free.
Love your site! Funny stuff. Definitely showing my husband.
You rock! We love our readers, but we love our sharers MORE! We’re on Facebook and Twitter, too, for following us easily.
Found your site from a text from my wife. I EFFING LOVE IT!!!
YES!!! Thanks! Also give me a new website tagline idea: EFFING + LOVE = HowToBeADad.com (Maybe it needs some work.)
WELCOME!
I’m a new dad of a 2 month old boy, and just found out at my wife’s IUD placement (birth control; for those who don’t know) appt, that we’re expecting…again.
I found your site after seeing the picture from the Zombies vs Babies post. Based off the pic alone I had to check it out. So far so great! Keep up the good work.
Oh wow! Double rainbow. Congrats and thanks! We’ll try to be like your kids: entertaining. But we’ll try not to wake you up at 2:00am. And then at 3:00am, and then at…
Just found your site today — love it! Totally sharing this with the hubs …I’m bookmarking.
Hey, I’ve been a subscriber for about a month. Saw your Thongies pic and couldn’t resist.
Thanks for your work!
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What a fantastic, brilliant, truthful website. This is what I think I should have been looking for for the last 18 months without even realising it!
Wow! So glad you found us! We’ll leave the light on for ya.
Please do. Its sometimes dark at 4am when going downstairs to get a bottle!
Stumbled across this blog this evening – not a father at all, but work with children for a living – this is truly BRILLIANT!!!! Made my day!
Your comment made my day! Fair trade.
Hey Charlie & Andy! I am not married, and don’t have any children, but I do have nieces, work at a preschool, and have babysat for the last 10-yrs of my life. Yall’s site is amazing!! I have sat here looking at the postings for the last hour and have laughed my hiney off the entire time! Intense laughter that I have seriously needed. The site is awesome because it’s so honest; what every man (and a lot of women) thinks but never says. I think it’s great that you and your wives find the humor/fun in being married and having kids. If a man will eventually ask me out in the future, maybe I can have a husband who makes me laugh just as much someday!! Keep posting!!!
(In total awe at your amazingly kind words) WOW!!!
You’re very welcome
Ya’ll totally deserve it! You made a 22-yr-old Grad student forget her assignment because she’s too interested in your website….. those are some bragging rights.
Ooooooo, I LOVE distracting people from school/homework. Hee hee! I’m kinda mischievous that way. My kids’ teachers have another word for it though.
I’m kind of pissed off. Not AT ya’ll but FOR ya’ll. I’m a fairly new reader, and I honestly never knew that a TON of those posts were even from you guys. I don’t remember seeing link backs, and I’m pretty sure your name was removed. Other wise I would have found you WAY sooner.
Because of people’s douchiness I have been deprived of your awesomeness for so long. I’m almost having a moment here…
You guys are amazing and I’m glad that someone along the way DID end up linking me back to this amazingness I now enjoy so much!
PS I’m in “H is for Hell” at this very moment, with my 7 month old wedged right between my husband and I. Ah…parenting…good times.
Yeah, Charlie and I were really bothered by all the thievery, NOT the sharing, but the outright thievery with removed domain name and logo. But then we just took a deep breath and reminded ourselves that that’s just the Internet, it can be a shitty place, or a percentage of it can.
We’re so glad you found us! WELCOME and ENJOY! Even if you only got the equivalent of 3 hours of sleep because you were rocking the H last night.
THANK YOU for this website! I am a mom of two wee ones, and after a week end being run over by a stomach bug (thank you daycare?!), I’m so glad I stumbled on the Instructionals pages… I’ve been wiping tears of laughter since!
You bet! Welcome to the party, pull up a chair! So glad you’re loving the Instructional Diagrams. Don’t miss our videos, too, we just started doing them.
Loving your stuff from Wagga Wagga,Australia. I spent a long evening recently putting my Fin to bed (he had croup…. I was having to say things like “if u stop crying you’ll be able to breath”… Fun)then into bed with a 4 month old with a fever who screamed till she collapsed in a heap on me. I start flicking through your site and pissed myself laughing… only to wake the baby and have to start the process again. Was worth it though that night. Thanks
Maya, Finlay (3) and Abigail (4mths).
Sooooooooooooorry about making you wake the baby. It apparently happens a lot with our visitors.
Welcome to HowToBeADad.com. Please wear adult diapers.
Will I’m going to be dad on 7-1-12 is the due date four my first baby it going to be a boy I have now idea what to do but I will figer it out if anyone can give info on what to do or give me some info it my first baby
I think you found the wrong website, man. This is an entertainment website for parents. Not really the place to go for actual tips and advice. But have a look around and enjoy the laughs. And congratulations!!!
Too funny! Love your site! Thanks for the laughs!
Fantastic! Thanks! I hate types too, though I generate as much of them as I do CO2 by breathing. BUT I can edit anything on the website, sooooo… what typo? Ha ha!
Stumbled across your site about an hour ago. I have been in tears of laughter ever since. I learned all this info the hard way…..3 times in fact but I have bestowed your wisdom and genius upon a few of my fellow dad’s and dad’s to be. Fantastic effort.
You’re a rockstar! Thanks for laughing, crying and sharing.
like it verymuch
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Charlie, excellent site. I found your session to be extremely informative at Blogher’12. Thanks for all the tips. You have a great sense of humor..keep it coming!!
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I found you guys a bit late, my kid is 7 now, but still very funny and useful…hehehe I’ll apply my newly aquired knowledge with the little one…he’s in for a blast!
“Knowledge” is on the ban list of words to use in relation to our website. Ha ha! No worries. We write about babies a lot, but I’m still ahead of you with a 14 and 12 year old. So, there should be something for you to laugh at when you discover a gym sock that won’t bend (if your 7yo is a boy).
Awesome site! Just got another subscriber!
From One Dad to Another (Few)
This is awesome. I screenshot the one picture of the “hypomomdria”.
While my wife might laugh, she could also go the other way and chase me with a scissors, but you know how many times she’s asked me, “omg, is he breathing” and the poor kid is just snoozing? Or wait, the times when he coughs or sneezes, its the bubonic plague (ok maybe not the plague, but you get it).
Being a Dad is awesome, and its even better when you get to share it with someone you truly love (my wife if you couldnt tell).
D
Just found your site and laughed my head of at the ‘shiny peepee’ story. As a Mom to an almost four year old boy and the only ‘girl’ in the household I will be keeping up to pick up tips and tricks and stay informed!
Oh how i wish i found this sit 8yrs ago!
Yay! I we’d started it that long ago! Ha ha!
Thanks!
Thank you for the ab workout I just received from laughing at your intructional diagrams! What makes them so great is that they are true!
Nice! Now I can read some interesting articles, when I can’t sleep. That is until, my wife gets mad at my cell phone light wakeing her up from her beauty sleep
Hey dads!
My name is Jasom – awesome site here!
Been looking around for a little bit, now Im going to start reaching out and interacting a bit more with you guys.
Funny stuff here,
Cheers
J
Being a single parent for most of my kids lives (12 years) teaches you a thing or 2 about them, but the way you guys describe some of this stuff lets moms see humor in things we otherwise probably never would have. Lol at least it does for me lol
so glad I found this site! Thanks ♥