Fatherhood Friday

Fatherhood, just as good the second time around

August 27, 2010 By PJ Mullen 20 Comments

Brevity has never been my strong suit. However, when Chalkboard Dad unveiled The Father 100 (no, it’s not a NASCAR race), I felt compelled to give it a shot

Filed Under: Fatherhood Friday, The Father 100 Tagged With: Family, Father

Life as a status symbol?

August 13, 2010 By PJ Mullen 36 Comments

Towards the end of April I was contacted by a writer who was going to be doing an article on stay at home dads for Marie Claire magazine. Since I’m interested in doing whatever I can to paint stay at home dads in a positive light, I accepted the interview request.

Filed Under: Captain's Chair, Fatherhood Friday, Greatest Hits Tagged With: Family, fathers, Home, Marie Claire, Michael Corleone, Parenting, Status symbol, Stay-at-home dad

My future Apple product developer

July 23, 2010 By PJ Mullen 22 Comments

Our two year old son is a constant source of entertainment. Like most toddlers he is very inquisitive and eager to explore his ever changing and expanding world. While these expeditions frequently leave my wife and I exasperated, we do our best to see the humor in his words and actions.

Filed Under: Fatherhood Friday Tagged With: Apple, Handhelds, iphone, Macintosh, Palm Inc, Steve Jobs

There are no words

June 18, 2010 By PJ Mullen 6 Comments

Very infrequently am I ever at a loss for words. Anyone who has come around these parts with any regularity know I can be fairly verbose when the moment strikes me. Today, however, is not one of those days.

Filed Under: Fatherhood Friday Tagged With: dad blogs, Father

How not to give a toddler medicine

June 11, 2010 By PJ Mullen 23 Comments

Over the last four months we have had a recurring issue with little man and a string of ear infections. Just when we think one is gone, or at least mostly gone, another one manages to sneak up on the poor little guy. It has gotten to the point that prescriptions have become door prizes for us at each visit and we were hoping we were close to breaking the cycle.

Filed Under: Fatherhood Friday Tagged With: Conditions and Diseases, Fever, Health, Otitis, Physician, Temperature, Vomiting

Orange we glad scurvy’s not an issue

May 21, 2010 By PJ Mullen 23 Comments

Despite our son not being a voracious eater, we have been fortunate that his tastes have skewed towards things that are good for him. We normally don’t keep many packaged or processed foods in the house and with the ones we do keep we’ve tried to ensure that they have some modicum of nutrition.

Filed Under: Fatherhood Friday Tagged With: California, Fruit, Nutrition, Orange, Scurvy, United States

Sweatshirt Blanket’s Spread Your Warmth Campaign

April 9, 2010 By PJ Mullen 7 Comments

Yesterday Sweatshirt Blanket, a client of mine, launched their Spread Your Warmth campaign to do some social good. Through the Spread Your Warmth campaign Sweatshirt Blanket will be using their blog and product to help help raise awareness for the many wonderful causes out there.

Filed Under: Everything Else, Fatherhood Friday

There’s a nlog in my blog

March 25, 2010 By PJ Mullen 23 Comments

If you read my guest post over at Clark Kent’s Lunchbox yesterday, then you know that Dr. Seuss stories are a fixture in my household. So much so that now I catch myself lost in thoughts that are Seussian in nature. The other day I was having an issue with one of my blogs and it got me wondering…

Filed Under: Fatherhood Friday, Random Thoughts Tagged With: Clark Kent, Dr. Seuss, Lunchbox

Separation Anxiety

March 12, 2010 By PJ Mullen 32 Comments

The following takes place between 10am and 11:30am During the whole service I was fidgeting, nothing gave me any comfort. I can barely recollect anything that transpired. The readings, the sermon, the hymns were all a blur to me. At least half a dozen times I checked the pager they gave me. Was the power [...]

Filed Under: Captain's Chair, Fatherhood Friday Tagged With: Anxiety, Books, Disorders, Health, Mental Health, Self-Help, Shopping, Support Groups

I don’t think that word means what he thinks it means

February 19, 2010 By PJ Mullen 28 Comments

Lately little man has been acquiring quite the vocabulary, so much so that I have to think twice about what comes out of my mouth for fear that he will repeat it. For the longest time the only things he really said were were ‘kitty’, ‘mum’ and ‘spoon’ and I began to get a little [...]

Filed Under: Fatherhood Friday Tagged With: Children, Kids and Teens, speech development, terrible twos, Toddlers, vocabular