INSTRUCTIONAL DIAGRAMS
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.
Safety from Children: Baby Carrying Warning
Attention: Kids need love and protection, that’s a given, but we adults do a better job of delivering these things to kids when we are not, ourselves, in danger or excruciating pain. There is a massive amount of information out there for keeping babies and children safe, but there is a gaping vacuum of information [...]
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The Social Media Updates of Parenting
[ click here to enlarge the image ] Understanding and navigating the endless and quickly changing face of the social media world can be a daunting task for anyone. But for parents, just adding something as simple as a pair of button-fly pants to their kid’s wardrobe can be the straw that made the camel [...]
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Hypo-kid-dria (How Kids Present Illness and Injury to Parents)
[ click the image to enlarge ] We’ve shown you a mother’s hypochondria (fearing the worst of a child’s illness or injury) with Hypo-mom-dria. With our Hyper-dad-dria illustration, we completed the parental picture by showing you a dad’s “put duct tape on it and walk it off” style of failing to see anything wrong. [...]
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Save The Gummy Bears!
Each year, tens of millions of gummy bears are decimated by those who are blissfully unaware of the impact of their voracious appetites: CHILDREN. HowToBeADad.com feels it is our responsibility as parents and ecologically-minded individuals to help replenish this threatened community. How can you help this majestic creature? Much like their distant cousin, the [...]
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Booger Nutrition Facts
We wrote about the controversial topic of booger eating before, but because of wild public demand we decided to showcase the dietary considerations of boogers as an Instructional Diagram. What are boogers made of? Is it okay if you or your kid eats them? Will they cause sickness? Or blindness like some old people say? [...]
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Bad Product Idea #4: Pixie Choosie Uncommonly Exotic Baby Foods
[ click the image to enlarge ] No one knows what foods their baby will take to, and some babies can be crazy about their appetites and tastes. On one hand, you can’t seem to feed them anything except a few items, and on the other, they’ll cram the strangest things into their faces without [...]
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Charlie & Andy’s Excellent Blog-venture!
Tomorrow, Andy and I will journey to our first official mommy blog conference. Why are we going to a mommy blog conference when we obviously don’t have visible women-parts? Well, I’m glad you asked. We have no idea. But it’ll be our first roadtrip, taking “How To Be A Dad” for a spin in real [...]
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Redneck vs. Baby
[ click the image to enlarge ] Sometimes the truth is unpleasant. Sometimes it slouches and belches and hollers and stares us straight in the face with half-lidded eyes. Observing your baby, or someone else’s, can sometimes leave you with a puzzled and slightly alarmed crinkle in your brow as you witness behavior that [...]
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6 Secret Uses for Baby Diapers
A man’s task, when he becomes a dad, is one of transformation into a metaphorical swiss army knife of fathering skills. Sometimes, we have to go off the “beaten path” to find our own creative solutions. But necessity is the mother of radness and we here at HowToBeADad.com have never shied away from the ridiculous [...]
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Baby Sleep Positions: “Snow Angels”
Romping around in the snow can be a blast. Especially if you’re small, clumsy and full of seemingly inexhaustible atomic energy, like a kid or baby. There are so many fun things to do and so few ways to get seriously hurt doing them! And it seems like snow angels were invented for babies [...]
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