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Why parents who try to watch baby driver get weird search results

My mom called on a Tuesday to say I needed to buy a "baby driver" immediately because that's supposedly how I learned to walk in 1993. Four hours later, my frontend lead Slacked me a link saying I had to...

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Debugging The Farm Book: What Do We Actually Call A Baby Goat?

It's 5:43 AM and my brain is currently running on safe mode. My 11-month-old son is sitting on my lap, aggressively pointing a sticky, banana-coated index finger at page four of a cardboard farm book. I'm staring at an illustration...

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Why the Trisha Paytas Baby Drama Makes Me Rethink Parenting

Don't crowd-source your baby's identity on the internet, and definitely don't let your mother-in-law's passive-aggressive text messages dictate how you announce your kid to the world. I learned this the hard way when I created a literal feedback form for...

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What My Pediatrician Said About Playing Lil Baby Around My Toddler

My brother-in-law swore that playing heavy trap beats would make my son sleep through absolutely anything. My mother-in-law heard ten seconds of a track and claimed I was ruining his spiritual aura. My doctor just blinked at me tiredly and...

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Watching The 1995 Baby-Sitters Club Movie As An Overthinking Dad

My mom told me the absolute best way to get a break from parenting is to just hire the 14-year-old kid who lives across the street because "she seems nice and probably knows CPR." My lead developer, a guy who...

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Navigating Spare Ribs vs Baby Back Ribs With An 11-Month-Old

I was halfway through a surprisingly decent potato salad at my buddy Dave’s backyard cookout in Southeast Portland when I looked over and saw him handing my 11-month-old daughter a massive, sauce-drenched pork rib. My brain basically threw a fatal...

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The 3 AM Monitor Panic: Surviving The Stomach Sleeping Phase

The glowing screen of the baby monitor was blinding in the pitch-black bedroom, and my heart was hammering against my ribs at roughly 140 beats per minute. It was 3:14 AM. The temperature in the nursery was exactly 69.4 degrees,...

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When Do Babies Get Measles Vaccine? A Portland Dad's Guide

I was sitting in Dr. Lin's examination room with a color-coded spreadsheet printed on actual paper, which should tell you everything about my mental state at the time. My daughter was six months old, we were exactly three weeks out...

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Debugging The Drool Firmware: When Do Babies Teeth Come In?

It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday, and the Portland rain was actively mocking my sanity by drumming a steady, chaotic beat against the bedroom window. The baby, who usually just gives a polite little squawk when he wants milk,...

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