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Young Single Dad Has the Whole World Gone Crazy?? Posted: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:06:01 +0000  By now everyone has heard about the saga in Austria where a man held his own daughter captive in the basement for 24 years, sexually abused her the entire time, and even fathered 6 children with her. When I hear things like this, I have to ask myself what in the hell could drive someone [...] The Last Lecture Posted: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 08:34:38 +0000  While browsing Yahoo news last night, I happened upon an article about a 47 year old professor at Carnegie Mellon who is dying of cancer, and decided to do the famous “Last Lecture,” (professors are often asked to lecture on a subject of their choice as if they were going to die in the very [...] Germany, Your Past Still Haunts You… Posted: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:06:37 +0000  Although it was always part of the plan to use this blog as a way to let off some steam and get things off my chest, I had really only considered doing so with regard to Sweet Pea’s mom. But now I just have to get this out, and it’s completely unrelated to Her. As [...] Daycare Dilemmas… Posted: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:34:45 +0000  Most of the knowledge I have about child development I either gathered “in the trenches” with my 4 year old, applying the good old trial and error method combined with different things I have learned over the years, or by reading random books, articles on the net, pamphlets from the doctor, fortune cookie fortunes, the [...] A Simple Meal Posted: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 04:04:18 +0000  As a busy single guy living in an apartment the size of a postage stamp, where the kitchen is smaller than my bed (I’m not joking!), I usually try to do as little cooking as possible. It’s not that I don’t enjoy it, per se, but when getting out a few ingredients and the required [...] The German Inquisition Posted: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:58:57 +0000  I have noticed a sweeping change in Sweet Pea’s personality over the past couple of weeks. One which I am quite pleased about. Sweet Pea has begun to ask “why?” to basically everything (actually, “waaaarrrruum?”(warum), since her use of English is still non-existant, much to my chagrin). For instance, we had this conversation last night. “I [...] Co-Sleeping…for Dads? Posted: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:15:28 +0000  After me and Sweet Pea’s mom split up, I moved into a really small efficiency apartment as an “emergency solution,” thinking that our separation would be temporary and that we would soon be back in a nice 3 bedroom all together. Well, over a year later, although I now accept the fact that we aren’t [...] 10 Little Ladybugs by Melanie Gurth Posted: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:19:18 +0000  This book is a must-have and should be in every child’s library. Basically just an easy to read, easy to memorize, fun little book. Since Sweet Pea really only speaks German at the moment (even though she understands English perfectly, and speaks it pretty well too, more on that in another post), I use this [...] 5 Products Every New Dad Needs Posted: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 06:10:59 +0000  In our consumption based western society, companies are constantly bombarding parents with things they (cue Chris Farley playing Bennett Brauer on SNL) “need”,”can’t live without,” or “would be horrible parents if they didn’t buy.” Although I disagree with most of these “necessities”, there are a few things every parent really should consider purchasing. 5. The Baby [...] The Importance of Books? Posted: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 05:10:28 +0000  I just got done reading an interesting book called Freakonomics, basically about how different random and hard-to-believe statistical correlations can either be proven or disproved merely by thinking out of the box and applying some economic theory and principles. Among other things, the authors basically state that no matter how much a parent tries to [...]