Dad and Buried

Whoever said pets teach kids responsibility and empathy never had hermit crabs. Mike and Peter hear from you about what the best pet is to get for your kid. I promise you this, by the end of the episode you'll not only have no idea what pet to get, you'll question whether having kids was the best move.  Support us 🙏 https://www.patreon.com/DadandBuried https://anchor.fm/d...

Are dads experts at finding things in the fridge? No. Are they great at cleaning up or knowing the kids schedules? No and no. Where am I going with this? I don't know. But I do know there ARE some things that dads are great at. Jokes, obviously. But other things too like fixing things (well not Mike and Pete but you get the idea). Both Mike and Pete blow the door wide open on this topic *open the...

Summers as a parent are always deceptive. On the surface we still get a child-like joy when school is over. A brief sigh of relief. Relief that's quickly followed by that moment when we realize that these kids will just hang around the house, begging to be entertained. for months. THEN we realize, hang on we just spent the last 4 MONTHS living, breathing and schooling these kids and now with schoo...

As parents our #1 job is to make sure we don't raise dicks. That has never been more true, or more apparent, than right now. We need less aggressive, less selfish, less bigoted assholes and more empathetic, more open, critically-minded human beings. . But what are there key things we want to be better at? Like having more patience? Not yelling as much? Perhaps doing a better job of channeling your...

Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." Thanks Ferris,  but how do we teach our kids to be ready for a world that will be hard fo us to recognize? I mean I don't even know what Tik Tok let alone why Mike has a channel where he just puts on Chapstick.  So what do we want for our kids?  Good school ($100Ks in debt)? A good job (soul crushing gri...

We’ve all wondered what it’s like to raise a family with mike, aka mr Dad & Buried himself. Ok, maybe “we’ve all” is a stretch and maybe it’s more like “none of us”? but either way we find out directly from Mike’s WIFE Heather (@mom&buried). We hear how their biggest argument is who’s Instagram following is growing faster? Ah true love. After all, modern marriages require modern reasons to...

Let's face it no one is ready to have "The Talk". Not parents, not kids, not my parents, no one! To this day I still have no idea how all this works but it's my duty to pass that knowledge on to the my kids using a series of diagrams and strange metaphors. We hear from you about some of your most cringeworthy convos. It's like listening  to a train wreck (see what I did there?).  Support...

How early is too early to show my toddler the original "IT"?  How is my 7yr old going to appreciate great filmmaking if she doesn't  watch the opening scene of "Narc"? These are VERY good questions that we, as parents, should be asking ourselves and EACH OTHER . Is it us or are the movies we grew up on way more violent and sexualized than we remember. No, no it's our  kids who are w...

Interesting  board games, fun crafts, and vein-popping screaming matches are all unintended outcomes of living in quarantine. Turns out spending hardcore quality time with the fam has yielded both good and BAD consequences. Mike and Pete hear from you about the good, the bad, and the ugly of parenting in consequences.  Support us 🙏 https://www.patreon.com/DadandBuried https://anchor.fm/...

When we think of what makes parenting so hard we often talk about the  big ticket items like (Bedtime, Bath time, meals, etc..) but really it's the small little tasks or moments in doing these parenting tasks that make so awful. What could those be I hear you ask? Mike and Peter hear your most tedious, tiny tasks.  Support us 🙏 https://www.patreon.com/DadandBuried https://anchor.fm/dada...

Babies are adorable and teenagers are the worst, amirite? But which one would you want sitting next to you on a 6 hour flight? Ha, not so easy is it! Different ages come with pros and cons. Mike and Pete share their thoughts and hear from you about which age is truly the best.  Support us 🙏 https://www.patreon.com/DadandBuried https://anchor.fm/dadandburied/support You can listen here:&...

Remember in olden days when people used to have kids to help around the farm. How did we go from that to begging our kids to put their socks on? Or clean up their room? How about just put their toys away? And when we take the iPad out of their hands we sit and watch as roll on the floor as if their life force is bing sucked from their bodies, like some...

Okay, okay you got us. This whole Dad & Buried thing is a ruse! We actually LOVE our kids. But guess what? SO DO YOU!! This episode lands on April fools but we're not joking. We don't understand how this whole April Fools thing works. Anyway, Mike and Pete hear the things you love about your kids and share their own stories.  Support us 🙏 https://www.patreon.com/DadandBuried https://anch...

What if I told you this isn't your first global pandemic. Don't believe me? Remember 'Beiber Fever'? You caught that pretty hard and survived (albeit a changed person). Mike and Pete hear your harrowing and funny Corona parenting stories a week into quarantine. Stay healthy! Stay sane!  Support us 🙏 https://www.patreon.com/DadandBuried https://anchor.fm/dadandburied/support You can listen he...

Um...yeah, so that happened fast. It's only been a week and cities and whole countries are quarantine lockdown. The data shows a distinct correlation between child mortality rates and the number of days they are quarantined in the house with you. Of course, those mortality rates have nothing to do with coronavirus but rather the constant, and unending need to make slime in the living room. I mean...

Balancing work, family and friends was hard enough when you were single. Balancing work, family, friends, your spouse, and kids is next level hard. FUN TIMES! Oh and did I mention fitting in time for yourself? lol of course I didn't, there's no time for that nonsense.  Mike and Pete get into it with the help of you guys (the best listeners on the internet...aww). Support us 🙏 https://www.pat...

When it comes to social media a strong defense is a good offense. Confused? Yeah, so are Mike and Pete. There's so much to watch out for especially when you consider that most apps and games these days are basically social networks. Freaked out? Good. Your journey has begun, grasshopper.  Support us 🙏 https://www.patreon.com/DadandBuried https://anchor.fm/dadandburied/support You can listen...

How is it that you can have kids raised the same exact way and have totally different personalities? Well it happens  so Mike and Pete just have to get over it. Or do they?....Yes, yes they do.  Support us 🙏 https://www.patreon.com/DadandBuried https://anchor.fm/dadandburied/support You can listen here:  iTunes: https://apple.co/2UZeMbH Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2U1888t Stitcher: h...

It's coming. The changing 'tudes. Your once sweet little bundle now uses phrases like "WHATEVER, DAD!". First, you're only 11! And second, I INVENTED THAT PHRASE! The smells, the 'tude, the worry, Mike and Pete get into it. Spoiler: It gets worse.  Support us 🙏 https://www.patreon.com/DadandBuried https://anchor.fm/dadandburied/support You can listen here:  iTunes: https://apple.co/2UZeMbH Spotif...

We've all made mistakes, well not me, but I hear that lots of people do. What happens when you make a mistake that affects you? More importantly what happens when you make a mistake that affects your kids? Turns out nothing! Everything is fine and your kids instantly forgive you forever. See? that was easy. Mike and Pete discuss how easy failing  as a parent really is.  Support us 🙏 https://www.p...

Remember being able to meet up with friends spontaneously? Wait, why are tears streaming down your face?...What's that you say? it's all you can think about?  Well, my friend, take that memory and shove it in a box then push that box waaaay on down in the deepest part of your memory hole cause those days are over. Mike and Pete hear stories from yore and even yonder about what life was like back t...

Raising one kid is hard enough raising two is harder. If those two kids don't get a long it makes it hardest. Solution? Return them. It's like the `Switch Witch` but with kids.  instead of swapping out candy for toys your take swap your kids for a gaming console of your choice. You'll need it with all those free hours you'll have. Mike and Peter get all up on it. Enoy.  Support us 🙏 https://www.p...

Parenting is hard, we know that.  But what happens when on top of the craziness of mealtime, bathtime, bedtime your kid gets diagnoses with an illness? Mike and Pete talk about their own kid's diagnoses and hear from listeners about their kids illnesses. From heart transplants, to brittle teeth, to epilepsy to ADHD the guys go deep (at least as deep as they can) into all of it. This is a very "spe...

We did it LIVE! Mike and Pete cover it all and answer "Would You Rather's

Oh, you don't lie to your kids? Really? Santa ring a bell? How about the Tooth Fairy? What about the Switch Witch (whoever came up with that one is a real monster). You want the truth? You have to LIE! It's part of that parenting mandate. I mean, who really know what happens if you actualy count to 3. Mike and Pete take an indepth look at thousands of quatitavie data points across the globe and bu...