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August 31, 2010

Super Summer Videos

As the official end of summer is approaching, I think back on all the fun, silly and sometimes crazy moments from this summer. While some of the moments have slipped by and I kick myself for missing them in all their glory, with my Flip in hand (sometimes in pocket) I’ve been lucky enough to capture some of those moments in all their digital video glory. So now I’m hoping that some of you readers have also captured some of your own crazy summer kid moments. I’m sure you’ve already shared them with friends, family and those people you kind of know that friend-ed you on Facebook.

Now we want to see them! So please, comment on this post and include a link to YouTube, Vidme or however you want to get your video to me. If I get enough submissions, I’ll pick a few and include them in my next post. So get your Flip out this weekend and let’s see what happens!

And here is my personal leading contender for crazy summer fun:

Out & About | giggle Grab Bag

August 12, 2010

Where Are All The People?

After far too long, Who’s Your Daddy is back for your reading pleasure (or as close as I can get). The Family has just returned from a journey to the left coast to celebrate the Little Man’s Great Grandma’s 100th birthday among other family visits, events and other shenanigans. In our travels, between field trips to show the Little Man a real burrito (sorry NY) and to In-N-Out, I tried to squeeze in a bit of work here and there, accompanied by my partner in crime.

On a deliciously cool and foggy morning in San Francisco, as we walked to our breakfast meeting (no joke, he had my back for this meeting), the Little Man had his best thinking man face on as he turned to me and asked, “Dad, where are all the people?” It took me a minute to catch on (it ususually does) and then I realized, this kid is a New Yorker now. He’s used to elbowing out touristos and hipsters for a seat on the subway at all hours, so the sight of a sidewalk with room to breathe was a curious sight indeed. After I explained the relative plethora of space in San Francisco (and almost any US city other than NY) he went back to pondering short stack or full stack.

With the fog a distant memory, we’re back in the Manhattan’s sticky delight. Heading off to a breakfast of bagels and OJ, the Little Man looked up at me with that smile that will melt a few hearts in years to come and stated, “Dad, I’m glad to see all the people again.” Buddy, I think they’re glad to see you too.

Out & About | giggle Grab Bag

July 7, 2010

Nursery Design By You!

While the title of this blog post may lead you to think it should more appropriately be coming from our design Guru, David Netto over at his blog smartly titled Nursery Design, rest assured I’m not tackling any actual design topic. This post is one for all you moms and dads that might like to see how different designs might look in your dream nursery or just play with cool online tools. Our favorite prenatal and pregnancy site, The Cradle has partnered with Rooms By You to bring you the latest and greatest nursery design tool:

With the Design Your Nursery tool, you can customize home decor and bedding one product at a time or decorate your entire nursery with a simple drag & drop tool that anyone can use. You upload your own designs or choose from a huge number of big time designers latest creations. You can also choose to start with one of hundreds of pre-designed rooms to give you some inspiration.

If you love what you create, you can then order some or all of whatever fantastic designs you’ve created! You can also share your designs with friends to see if they love your nursery as much as you or if you need a bit of a sanity check from the pink plaid nursery you’ve envisioned.

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June 24, 2010

Private Video Sharing With Vidme

A smart kid (the Little Man) once told me that if you put it on the internet, it’s there forever and you can’t get it back. So maybe you’re a bit hesitant to post photos or videos of your kids or with open access for the world to see.

If you do share some awesome moments, maybe you take steps to keep it a bit non-descript like posting only videos away from home without names like my semi-famous in my own mind “Over The Lake Man!” video of the Little Man. Maybe you’re not worried at all and you’re like the iGeneration who wants to broadcast every photo, video and other detail of their lives. If so, you can stop reading (but don’t).

Sites like YouTube or Vimeo have always been so “everyone” focused with people trying to gain fame and fortune. Many of us would rather just share some of those classic kid moments with friends and family. A new company wants to help.

Vidme a new site that instead focuses on private sharing with lots of easy controls to limit access so you might feel a little more comfortable uploading some classic moments and sharing with your preselected group (with no 25 person limit like YouTube). So if you’d like to share some videos of the kids with friends and family, but not the world, you might check out Vidme, that for now is free.

Full Disclosure: I have no relationship with Vidme and have received no compensation for this blog post. Vidme doesn’t even know I exist.

Out & About | Parenting | Safety

June 21, 2010

Dirty Diaper App for Next Generation Diapers

Scientists at the University of California San Diego working on “smart underwear” are testing chemical sensors printed directly on the underwear that measure bio-markers found in sweat. These sensors will allow the “smart underwear” to monitor key chemicals found in the wearer’s sweat to administer medications automatically for soldiers in the field or for other, more close to home, applications?

I imagine a day in the not too distant future where a line of diapers that will have these electrodes built in and be linked to a “Dirty Diaper App” on your phone that will alert parents when a diaper change is needed. I can’t wait to see the Apple commercial for this app…

Parenting | Products | giggle Grab Bag

June 10, 2010

Words of Wisdom from Modern Family

So, if you’ve ever read this blog before, you know I’m a huge fan of ABC’s Modern Family. I often take some key parenting tips from the show. So I thought it would be a good idea to share some fatherly words of wisdom from America’s best father, Phil Dunphy. How could you not follow advice from this guy:

Without further delay, take it away Phil:

“You never want your kids to see you scared. You want to be that rock that they grab a hold of in a stormy sea. Actually, a rock would sink. So a floating rock.”

“Give a kid a bird and he becomes one of those weird dudes who walks around with a bird on his shoulder. But give him a pair of wings, he can fly… unless he has absolutely no hand-eye coordination.”

“I always felt bad for people with emotionally distant fathers; it turns out I’m one of them. It’s a miracle I didn’t end up a stripper.”

“I act like a parent and talk like a peer, I call it “peerenting.”"

“In nature, fathers are known to eat their young. Is it because they’re delicious? No. It’s because they want to give their female bear, giraffe, what have you, the honeymoon they never had. Just to be clear, I’m not condoning eating your kids – but I sure as heck know why giraffes do it.”

And of course one not parenting related but one my wife hears often:

“It’s just the beginning. Buckle your seatbelt, lady. You’re being wooed.”

Parenting | giggle Grab Bag

June 3, 2010

Green Spring Cleaning – Still Time!

Yes, it is still spring and yes you still have time to do that spring cleaning you’ve been putting off since March 20 (the date spring officially started). Junk in your garage, crumbs under your refrigerator and dust bunnies everywhere else. As a parent, we want to give our children everything and that should include a clean and safe environment, both in their home and the planet we stick them with.

So take the opportunity to get ready for summer (which in New York feels like it’s already here) and get your home cleaned up. I recommend the giggle Better Basics line of natural, plant-based cleaning products (that I can honestly say I use everyone one of in my house) that are safe, nontoxic, biodegradable, and wonderfully effective you’ll be ready for a clean and healthy summer.

Green Living | Health & Wellness | Products

May 27, 2010

Never As Expected – Always Perfect

As we approach the Memorial Holiday weekend, we’re all starting to think about summer and vacations and all the wonderful things that go with that. Also, some of us are planning those family moments where everything will come together in one shining moment – or not. In watching the Modern Family finale (“Family Portrait“) last week, it was a perfect example of that specific moment planned down to the last detail that does not come off as expected, but is perfect none the less (and yes, I’ll admit, I may have more than a little Claire in me). So as summer and all its family moments close in, just remember that sometimes the unexpected and unplanned ARE the perfect moments.

Parenting | giggle Grab Bag

May 18, 2010

It’s No Myth – Kids Have Boundless Energy

The Fitbit Experiment data is in and the winner is the Little Man in a landslide. After compiling data for three days, I had to say uncle. It is no myth, kids in fact do have boundless energy. In case you missed my last post (The Fitbit Experiment), last week I set out to try to catch lightening in a bottle and measure the energy of a seven year old. I figured, “hey, I live in New York and walk just about everywhere, I can hang with this kid.” I though that maybe it was just a myth and we adults move just as much as these kids. After three days, the results (steps and Fitbit Active score) looked like this:

	Little Man	Dad
Day 1	20,897 steps (1848)	11,865 steps (1073)
Day 2	18,359 steps (1290)	11,900 steps (1102)
Day 3	14,818 steps (1124)	7,682 steps (721)

You can see from the numbers that those little feet are moving. It is even more telling if you look at the Fitbit graph that they keep for each day to show you activity in five minute increments.

I guess I’m not surprised by these results, but at the same time, they are startling in how clearly they show the constant motion and boundless energy of kids. If only we kept it as we aged…

Child Development | giggle Grab Bag

May 13, 2010

The Fitbit Experiment Day 0 (Kids In Constant Motion)

Have you ever been around small children and thought to yourself, “that kid never stops moving, I wish I had their energy!” Of course you have, everyone has. As parents, we recognize kids’ boundless energy as a universal truth like gravity or stinky French cheese.

Let me take you back to November 2009 when I read an article in the Wall Street Journal (Fitbit Sees How You Run, Walk and Sleep) that was about a new gadget (Fitbit) that tracks both your activity level throughout the day and your sleep at night. A bit like a pedometer, but better because it can track and calculate much more than just your number of steps and distance traveled. I was intrigued, so I ordered two, one for me and one for Who’s Your Mommy.

Fast forward to today and a few weeks after getting our Fitbits (they had a serious backorder). It’s been an interesting exercise to see how far we walk each day and how much (or little) we sleep each night. And we’ve joked, wouldn’t it be funny to put one on the Little Man and track his boundless energy? Is measuring that kind of energy even possible or is it like cold fusion, a scientific myth? Would this be like crossing the streams in Ghostbusters and result in “total protonic reversal”? I say, let’s find out!

So consider this the first entry in a not so scientific experiment to measure the boundless energy of a seven year old and compare it to the not-so-boundless energy of a forty year old dad. We’ll be using Who’s Your Mommy’s Fitbit and run the risk of loss or destruction of that Fitbit in the name of science. I’ll track the following data:

Daily Activity
Number of Steps Taken Per Day
Fitbit Activity Score (see here for explanation)

Sleep Activity
Hours In Bed
Times Awake

So check back later this week for my first report!

Child Development | Health & Wellness | giggle Grab Bag

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