Straight Dope Dad | A Father's View on Parenting » Family Health, Fitness, and Nutrition http://www.straightdopedad.com Fatherhood Advice From a Self Employed Stay at Home Dad. Tricks and Tips for Raising Children. Sat, 08 Oct 2011 12:06:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 My Daughter Wants to Be Ripped – Helping Young Girls Develop Self Esteem and a Positive Body Image http://www.straightdopedad.com/helping-young-girls-develop-self-esteem-and-a-positive-body/ http://www.straightdopedad.com/helping-young-girls-develop-self-esteem-and-a-positive-body/#comments Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:14:10 +0000 Straight Dope Dad http://www.straightdopedad.com/?p=1114
Summary: My six-year-old daughter wants to be strong and ripped. Good for her! Hope she still thinks that way when she’s thirteen though. A couple of weeks ago me and my daughter head over to Monterey to check out Sharks 3-D at the Imax theater. It was the 11 am showing and there were only [...]]]> http://www.straightdopedad.com/helping-young-girls-develop-self-esteem-and-a-positive-body/feed/ 0 Super Salad Smackdown – Competing Theories on Portion Control http://www.straightdopedad.com/super-salad-smackdown-competing-theories-on-portion-control/ http://www.straightdopedad.com/super-salad-smackdown-competing-theories-on-portion-control/#comments Fri, 01 Jan 2010 08:09:06 +0000 Straight Dope Dad http://www.straightdopedad.com/?p=833
Summary: People’s lives will expand to their available environment. Whatever you are doing, it will expand to fill the available space. My lunch time super salads are no different. Every day for lunch I make a monster salad. I mean it’s huge. It’s on steroids. It’s a manly salad. I start off with a bed [...]]]> http://www.straightdopedad.com/super-salad-smackdown-competing-theories-on-portion-control/feed/ 0 Feeding Picky Eaters – Try a Child’s Tasting Menu to Awaken Your Kid’s Taste Buds and Encourage Healthy Eating http://www.straightdopedad.com/feeding-picky-eaters/ http://www.straightdopedad.com/feeding-picky-eaters/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:47:41 +0000 Straight Dope Dad http://www.straightdopedad.com/blog/?p=33
Summary: Cut out the sweetened drinks and turn your kids on to a healthy “small plate with a bunch of little things on it”. Most of us struggle with trying to get our kids to eat a well balanced, healthy diet. Unfortunately, we are genetically programmed to seek out salt and sugar.  In nature both [...]]]> http://www.straightdopedad.com/feeding-picky-eaters/feed/ 0 Vegetarian Children – Raising Kids in a Vegetarian Home While Allowing for Choice http://www.straightdopedad.com/raising-children-in-a-vegetarian-home/ http://www.straightdopedad.com/raising-children-in-a-vegetarian-home/#comments Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:41:26 +0000 Straight Dope Dad http://www.straightdopedad.com/blog/?p=25
Summary: You became a vegetarian by choice. Perhaps your children should have that same choice. I first tried being a vegetarian during my senior year of high school in 1984. I was living in Mesa Arizona at the time: a place of extremely wide, straight, flat streets punctuated by strip malls with names like “Poca [...]]]> http://www.straightdopedad.com/raising-children-in-a-vegetarian-home/feed/ 2 Get Thee to a Potty! An Unorthodox Solution to a Child’s Persistent Pooping Problem and Toilet Training Issues. http://www.straightdopedad.com/get-thee-to-a-potty-an-unorthodox-solution-to-a-childs-persistent-pooping-problem-and-toilet-training-issues/ http://www.straightdopedad.com/get-thee-to-a-potty-an-unorthodox-solution-to-a-childs-persistent-pooping-problem-and-toilet-training-issues/#comments Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:43:51 +0000 Straight Dope Dad http://www.straightdopedad.com/blog/?p=8
Summary: The day I finally snapped and made my child beat years of constipation and overcome her anxiety around pooping. It’s funny how children can be simultaneously advanced and behind at the same time. My daughter had such a split around toilet training. She was a kung-fu master in peeing but a lowly apprentice in [...]]]> http://www.straightdopedad.com/get-thee-to-a-potty-an-unorthodox-solution-to-a-childs-persistent-pooping-problem-and-toilet-training-issues/feed/ 39 Vasectomies Rock! – How Getting Snipped Can Make For An Amazing Sex Life http://www.straightdopedad.com/vasectomies-rock/ http://www.straightdopedad.com/vasectomies-rock/#comments Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:31:40 +0000 Straight Dope Dad http://www.straightdopedad.com/blog/?p=3
Summary: It’s liberating to know that no matter how hard, long or often you come there is no chance it will result in a pregnancy. This makes sex more spontaneous and enjoyable. -OR- Don’t want more kids but don’t want to wear a condom? Then get a vasectomy you wuss! After about fifteen years together [...]]]> http://www.straightdopedad.com/vasectomies-rock/feed/ 12