Triple The Dad

Parenting is super tricky. You do a thing you think is great - look, I've set very strict guidelines that will make my kid a super adult and prepare them for the world - and all you do is instill them with the thought that you never let them have fun and kept them from being able to adjust to the world as it is. OTOH, you give them no rules and be their friend, and they long for you to have given them direction and guidance and pushed them so that they didn't end up with no skills and a habit of laying around on a couch all day. It is really the ultimate no win situation in a game that feels incredibly important to win.  As a result, I'm hesitant to give hard and fast advice on how to parent a specific child. But there is one piece thing I think we parents need to stop doing across the board: stop telling kids they are "perfect the way they are."   This is also a tricky, mine filled field to traipse through, because honestly, self esteem requir...

If you follow me on Twitter, you know I enjoy a good short workout.  I'm all about HIIT workouts.  Get in, get out.  You can follow @triplethedad over there if you want to see my recommendations and what I use.  Or look for the #dadfit tag. If you followed the former version of this blog, you know I love push ups.  In fact, on at least two or three occasions, I've done the 100 push up challenge.  The idea is that if you follow the six-week program , you'll eventually be able to do 100 push ups (surprise). Push ups are awesome and underrated both as a workout and as a health measure.  Here are some of things being said about push ups: NY Times: the  u ltimate barometer of fitness. HuffPost: If I could only do one exercise for the rest of my life, it would be the pushup. LiveStrong:  Of all the exercises you can do, though, pushups are one of the most effective . They are accessible, scalable to your fitness level and beneficial. ...

This headline from the *usually* reputable, non-clickbait WebMd had me nearly spitting out my tea: Hot Tea Linked To  Esophageal  Cancer Risk I drink between 1-5 cups of tea a day, have a bit of a fascination with health, love to read news, and have never seen a study or article suggesting tea was anything but beneficial to your health, so of course I was clicking on that link. Thankfully, the lead gives you the true story right off the bat:    Tea  lovers who take their daily cup scalding hot are raising their chance of having  esophageal cancer  if they also drink  alcohol  every day or if they smoke, say researchers. Couple things here: the "scalding hot" from the lead and study is not the "hot" the article promises. If you know much about how cancer works, you probably wouldn't be too surprised to find out that repeated scaldings could lead to cancer.  Cell damage causes replication and requires repair, and that proce...

Its January, so it must be time for resolutions.  For years I did this process called "Better Bryan" where I would try to come up with resolutions that bettered myself.  If you want to make the world, a better place, take a look at yourself, then make that change,* after all. So in 2016 I continued with tradition and I set some goals.  The following January I would set new goals, and in that post go back and look at the goals for the year.  Inevitably I missed on some.  But I have to say, somewhat proudly, that I generally keep my improvements going.  But 2016 was different. I failed.  Spectacularly. My goals for 2017 were to post every week.  Failed . Goal 2 was to grow the blog.  Despite only posting twice in the first three months, my site visit numbers were awesome.  So, thank you Russian crawlers, I guess, for that..  Failed. The Book Project was #3.  I'm going to give myself a pass here.  After months of pu...