Valentine’s Nay
Valentine’s Day approaches. Countless couples and would-be couples are, as we speak, scrambling to find romantic ways to mark the occasion. It’s stressful and time-consuming and expensive and, for...
View ArticlePanic Room
I went to Home Depot yesterday, and after an hour of wandering around aimlessly like Jack Torrance at the end of The Shining, I eventually made my purchase and got out of there with my life. But also...
View ArticleHow To Avoid Buying Crap For Your Kids
Lat night, I took my kid to see Marvel Universe LIVE!, an arena-based stunt show featuring what seemed to be every single major, minor and tertiary character from Marvel Comics history. Let’s just say...
View ArticleNo LEGO to Stand On
People love them some LEGOs. I recognize this. I’m not here to bury them (those people or the LEGOs). But I’m not here to praise them either (those people or the LEGOs). I’m just ambivalent about the...
View ArticleTouch and No
I’m not a gamer. I never have gamed. And neither has my son. There’s no Playstation in my house, no Xbox, no Wii. My son’s exposure to video games has been limited to the handful of times we’ve...
View ArticleMore Than Meets the Thigh
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View ArticleCategorically Opposed
Recently, Target announced that they’d be doing away with gender-categorizations in their children’s sections. This made a lot of people happy and a lot of people angry. I am torn between being baffled...
View ArticleEmpty Parenting Threats
When it comes to getting your kids to do something they don’t want to do, there are basically three tactics you can employ: bribery, threats, and just giving up and doing it for them. Doing it for them...
View ArticleGuy Anxiety 2: Electric Boogaloo
I have a lot of stuff on my mind, lately, most of which revolves around the forthcoming arrival of my second child. We are about the enter the final trimester, and as we cross that checkpoint, shit is...
View ArticleAntihero Worship
Everybody likes a good hero, right? Especially kids. Back in my day, I searched the skies for Superman, pretended I was a Jedi, and even wrote a school paper about how much I admired my dad. When I...
View ArticleBrand Awareness
If you follow my social accounts (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram), you may remember a photo shoot my son and I did with Dove Men+ Care back in February. We had a lot of fun that day, and despite the fact...
View ArticleBaby Item Wish List
My wife’s friends are throwing her a sprinkle, which is both the name of a smaller, not-your-first-kid baby shower and a word I will spend the rest of my life trying to avoid saying. As one does when...
View ArticleSmack Balk
Sometimes watching sports and being a (good) parent is a tough combination. Especially when you’re a Dolphins fan. I don’t have much to cheer for these days, but I do have plenty to cheer against...
View ArticleNot-so-silent Night
I’m no stranger to giving passive-aggressive gifts to subtly – or not – display my true feelings. But my in-laws don’t play. Thanks to the gift they got for my son, Christmas will be a not-so-silent...
View ArticleThe Vengeful Wife’s Holiday Gift Guide
Moms, I know you love your kids. But don’t you kind of wish you didn’t have to go through pregnancy to get them? I know you love your husbands too, but isn’t it frustrating that they don’t have to...
View ArticleYo-kai Watch and Learn
Every parent dreads the day they can no longer relate to their kids. Every parent worries that, sooner than later, their kids will transition out of interest in the things their mom and dad are...
View ArticleThe Gift of Convenience
As you may know, I spent last week in Turks and Caicos. It was gorgeous. Warm and sunny and, aside from the pristine ocean and the hotel pools, dry. Mom and Buried and Detective Munch started our last...
View ArticleThe House That Dad Built
What’s the opposite of handy? Handless? That’s what I am. I can barely hammer a nail. But having kids forces you to do things you wouldn’t normally do, like put together a complicated, 36-piece wooden...
View ArticleGrocery Shopping Sucks
I hate grocery shopping! Before you say “because you’re not good at it!”, that’s not why I hate it. I hate it for a lot of reasons. One of which is that I’m not good at it. But I mostly hate it because...
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