Zad Bod

Last week, I told you about how I was intervening too much and needed to let my baby learn how to feed himself. Well, I did just that, and the baby made a huge mess in the car. I tell that story, along with two more incredibly unintelligent things I've done in the past. This episode has it all. Bidets! Pepper spray! I can't believe my wife agreed to start a family with me. Give it a listen...

Building on last week's episode, I apply what I'm now calling "The 50% Rule" to teaching my kids things that are currently skills they're trying to learn, but will soon become routine things they do every day for the rest of their lives. How do I teach my 4 year old how to tie his shoes when the only time he practices is two minutes before we have to leave? How do I let my ba...

Major golf has returned to Augusta! The Masters is upon us, without Tiger Woods in the field, but for the first time I've actually come around to preferring it that way. I begin this episode with an abbreviated version of my reaction to the news of his latest car accident and DUI arrest before moving on to revisit a sort of parenting philosophy I created two years ago based on his late father, Ear...

No new Zad Bod pod this week, unfortunately, as I got derailed by the 1-2 punch of another sick kid AND visiting parents! But, as my way of saying sorry, I am offering up an old episode of a podcast I used to make called Easy Golf, in which I describe why the game is so appealing to golf sickos like myself. If you’re a golfer, you may get a kick out of hearing my version of something that exists w...

I thought it was time to mix things up and focus at least one whole episode on my baby! The good: he's army crawling his way through the house. The bad: he has sampled every sickness available to him this past cold & flu season. The ugly: He almost ripped my face off! All that, plus the highs and lows of trying to work and take care of a sick baby at the same time, a very strong reaction I...

On this episode, one anonymous artist (me) (but who is that?) shares his thoughts on the doxxing of formerly anonymous artist, Banksy, and then somehow I shift gears and talk about the start of my son's tee ball season and my early experiences and observations trying to coach these kids. Individually, every one of these kids has a lot to offer, but we are very far away from looking like a team...

On this episode, I gripe about how rough a week we have had due to setting our clocks forward an hour, and how hard I came crashing back down to Earth after last week declaring how good I have it. Last week, I was working out, playing golf, getting stronger, and losing weight. But just like that, I'm now sick, slow, and weak. And I blame Daylight Saving Time, which I then investigate and summa...

It's a Bod Pod! People talk about living their best life, and it's usually in reference to something like eating a block of cheese in their underwear, but I think I am actually living my best life! I have finally managed to strike a balance between exercise, appetite, golf, and the time and energy it takes to be a husband, father, and productive member of society. I'm getting stronger,...

We have been trying to get our 4 year old to take on the responsibility of making his bed, brushing his teeth, and getting himself dressed everyday, so we gave him a challenge to do it every day for the month of February, and if he did we'd get him a toy he asked for. Now we're coming up on the end of that month, and on this episode I describe the journey and evaluate the successes and fai...

On this episode, I talk about the Winter Olympics! Hockey games going to overtime, a cheating scandal in curling, and a collection of the world’s proudest parents! I also talk about how I’ve felt like a bad dad lately (not because my kids aren’t Olympians), and what I chose to do about it. Bonus topic: Does listening to an audiobook count as reading? What do you think I think? Here’s a hint: I ans...

This is just what I get for talking about all the positive changes I was seeing in my kids all at once -- a week full of setbacks and mayhem and actual DESTRUCTION at the hands of my precious little 4 year old...vandal. And to make matters worse, I at least had an explanation for why all those developmental leaps occurred at once, but my only explanation for why this week was so bad was that it wa...

Weird flex, but...both of my kids have experienced huge advances lately. And not gradual changes, either. Big, sudden improvements, all at once. My baby's babbling suddenly got more defined, and my 4 year old has seemingly taken giant physical, mental, and emotional leaps, all in the last week! And as proud as I am, I think there is something larger at play here. Could it be that households fu...

I am the most patient dad in the world, except for when I'm the most impatient dad in the world. But patience is like money: you can't just tell someone who doesn't have any that they should. On this episode, I talk about how I'm Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when it comes to having patience, and what I am realizing I can try to do about it. This one is for the dads who wish they could b...

On today's show, I provide an early check-in as to how it's going so far coaching my 4 year old son's basketball team, as well as present my Grand Unifying Theory of how to coach small kids in anything, especially if you yourself didn't play the sport in question growing up. I also mull uninviting my 4 year old from his baby brother's 1st birthday party. All that and more. Than...

Last week was a "before picture" snapshot of baby Al at the start of the year, and this week it's time to do the same for big Ern, my 4 year old. I do a brief overview of what's going on his life and development in four different categories - movement and physicality, intellect, creativity, and personality. Join me in practicing how to take a step back and see our kids as they ar...

My baby is starting daycare! He's gonna do great and have a wonderful time, but his parents are a bit broken up about it. So, on this episode, I take stock of how he is, who he is, what's going on with him at this pivotal moment in his life in which he steps out into the world. Consider it a before picture, because from now on the changes we see in him won't just be our doing. This one...

Happy New Year! This entire podcast is built on the fact that I made and kept a New Year's resolution ONE TIME, and even though I don't continue to make resolutions, I tell you why I'm a big fan of them. I also talk about how both of my kids never like me at the same time, and what I'm choosing to start doing, and even though I'm choosing to start doing it at this particular ti...

SPOILER ALERT! The finale to season 1 of Apple TV’s Plur1bus drops tomorrow, and families are sitting together, some of whom are watching the show and want to see how it ends, while others haven’t seen it. What to do? I say, everyone watch it together! On this episode, I spoil the first eight episodes of the season and catch anyone up who hasn’t seen it but is currently holidaying with people who...

On this episode, a cautionary tale about how I ignored warning signs and managed to injure myself just in time to put a damper on the last week ahead before Christmas. Listen up and you'll find out how dumb I am, lest ye be like me!

I have decided to coach my son's basketball team in the new year, and on this episode I explain why I would rather coach a sport that's new to me than one I have experience playing, how eager sports dads like me can start laying the groundwork now so that we are NOT the problem with youth sports later, and how dads who aren't into sports can let their kids play them without compromisin...

It's holiday time, which means it's holiday travel time! But for my family, for some reason, it's been holiday travel time for two months, and my 4-month old has held up really well, but at some point my 4-year old decided he had had enough and kinda sorta quiet quit on us. Turns out, he's the key to the whole operation! Some lessons learned from our first forays traveling as a fam...

On this episode, I talk about my 4-year old son's recently completed inaugural season of playing organized soccer. I'm not a soccer guy. Would that influence him at all? How much of this would actually be soccer education, and how much would just be babysitting? All that and more, on this week's episode of Zad Bod!

It's a Bod Pod! On this episode, I give an update on how well I've adapted to working out at home with kettlebells, how my wife is putting herself back together after childbirth, all the heavy things we have to prevent our 4-year old from trying to lift, and as detailed an analysis of our 4-month old's tummy time as you'll ever hear. Lots of unqualified opinions on this one. It&#39...

Sure, bringing another baby into the world is pretty good for me and my wife, but what about our firstborn? How has it been for him? Well I gotta tell ya, it's turned him into a real piece of work, but seeing it up close, I can understand why. In this episode, I talk about the horrors that can be unleashed when you turn an only child into an older sibling, but also what about it I think can be...

Zad Bod is back! In a triumphant return episode, I talk about the changes in my life going from one kid to two, and specific differences between having the first kid and having a second. Spoiler alert: It's all good. I love being a dad of two even more than I loved being a dad of one, and I feel more powerful than ever. Give it a listen!