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Brave New Dads

Now heres a concept that would have made my ’70s mom spit out her martini: Dads who kvetch about the frustrations and joys of changing diapers, setting up playdates, and the best products to use to clean vomit off a highchair. What would have amazed her even more: hundreds of these dads gather annually at daddy conferences. The get-togethers are just as glitzy as marketing-to-moms conventions, with the dads events sponsored by mammoth brands such as Honda, Dove, Kraft and Huggies.

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Friday Night Lights

Its the swan song season for NBCs underrated yet poignant series Friday Night Lights, the show about which Im always telling my friends that while its ostensibly focused on high school football, most of its stories are about a heck of a lot more, namely, raising teens.

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Study Finds Neanderthals Ate Veggies with their Meat

Researchers have found evidence that Neanderthals cooked and ate vegetables as part of their diet, contradicting previous speculation that our ancestors subsisted solely on a diet of meat. A new U.S. study in the upcoming issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found grains of cooked plant material, such as date palms, legumes and grass seeds, in the teeth of Neanderthal skeletons found in Iraq and Belgium.

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Mommy Fashionista or Wardrobe Malfunction?

My girlfriend Amber and I were in the mad clutches of a GAP Kids sale. As the mother of triplet boys, Amber had three good reasons to buy scores of discounted clothing. I, on the other hand, was merely feeding my consumer habit when I snatched a $7 sequined rainbow hoodie for my daughter. Then, a clerk informed us that the sale applied to the womens section, as well. We looked longinglymournfullyat the other side of the store decorated with life-size posters of girls 10 years and 6 sizes our junior, posing their spidery-thin legs and barely there butts. I sighed. We really should buy something for ourselves for a change, Amber said. But its so much work, I whined.