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Adventures in Papa Land: Not Quite As Dramatic As The War Diamond, But the...

This morning when I dropped Kavya off at school, she picked up a crappy, green piece of confetti they use for art projects. She found it in the coat closet and asked if she could have it. “It’s a...

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Adventures in Papa Land: The One About The Wire Cutter, My Three Year-Old,...

I’m fixing the crib when Kavya comes stomping up the stairs, determined to “help” me assemble it. She goes through my toolbox, picks up a wrench and insists on using it to tighten the screws, none of...

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Talking About Stranger Danger

A social experiment on ITV Daybreak has a hidden camera document as a professional "stranger" lures seven pre-schoolers away from a playground by asking them to help find his dog. The experiment...

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A Pair of Safety Scissors and a 4 Year-Old Pirate Princess

It's Saturday. Kavya has just come home from her first pirate party, where she insisted on being a princess, and wore a brand new princess dress Sona had bought with much deliberation. I'm doing a bit...

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It’s Frozen Fever Up in Here!

Over Thanksgiving last year, we visited my parents in California, and also went on a lovely family trip to Disneyland, which surprisingly didn’t suck like I thought it would. During our visit, Frozen...

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April Fool’s Day Turned Into a Mall Outing and Ended with Kavya’s First...

Some dad bloggers I know coordinated efforts to trick their children on April Fool's Day by tee-peeing their kids' rooms, other parents are adding food coloring to milk, or putting salt on their kids'...

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Support #DadsRead and #WeNeedDiverseBooks Because Reading to Your Kids is Fun!

When I first heard about The #DadsRead Campaign created by Tom Burns over at The Goodmen Project and Jordan Lloyd Bookey, who runs Zoobean, a children's app and book curation service, I was immediately...

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Review: Essays on Fatherhood by Novelists (When I First Held You, edited by...

As soon as I read the premise of When I First Held You, edited by Brian Gresko, I was intrigued as it combined literature with fatherhood: “22 critically acclaimed writers talk about the triumphs,...

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The Hunt is On this Free Comic Book Day 2015: Wonder Woman with Pants

Last year was the first year we celebrated Free Comic Book Day. It was just me and Kavya. Neither of us dressed up, but man did we stock up on free comics and a ton of ones we paid cash money for. It...

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This Morning, I Decided to Become a Papa Blogger

Last night, instead of requesting a bedtime story about dragons and princesses and wicked witches, Kavya asked me to tell her the story of when she was born. It started off: “When Mama’s water broke,...

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