to win fair maiden’s heart…. it starts with a laugh!

He Makes Me LaughIn “Who framed Roger Rabbit?”, the lovely Jessica Rabbit is asked why she loves Roger. Jessica sighs demurely, ” he makes me laugh!”

Young men always amuse me as they desperately trade witty ‘pick-up’ lines and completely miss the obvious. Women enjoy men who make them laugh, and men — not surprisingly — find women extra attractive if they laugh at the man’s jokes or remarks. Does this really surprise anyone?

Humor isn’t just joke telling, which can be rather boring and contrived. There are funny things happening around us all the time… sometimes all it takes is to notice it and point it out.

Some recent studies into this phenomenon have uncovered just what we expected with one or two subtle differences. First, men don’t really seem to care if their date is witty as long as she laughs at his jokes. Here is a warning for you serious types, women rated humorless men as less honest and less trustworthy and a bit more socially inept. They also rated these men as ‘rough’ (not in a desirable context).
Make her laugh... and it may be the start of something wonderful

Read the linked studies for yourself, but my take is women are attracted to men who are humorous in a variety of social circumstances. Think about it. In some small way, a little humor can lift that little gray cloud that sometimes finds itself over every woman’s head from time to time. It’s like keeping sun in the house and fresh flowers, it’s very hard to be sad… unless you work really hard at it. The man who can master this has gained a great insight and , maybe, the beginning of a great relationship.

Roger Freberg

 

Your baby is hungry? Feed them anywhere and anytime!

a happy and a healthy baby
I am always surprised that breast-feeding is ever an issue anymore?

Although many men and women feel somewhat emancipated from the stereotypical gender expectations of prior decades. it appears that a holdover from our mother’s/ or grandmother’s time still hangs on. It all has to do with breast-feeding. Should a mother breastfeed and where and when? Ask anyone and they will give you their — often stern — opinion on the subject. I have heard all kinds of half truths and truths. Some women claim not to breast-feed because they are ‘busy’ or because it will hurt their figure or because it’s old fashioned. None of these ‘reasons’ really work for me. It should be all about what’s best for the baby…. or am I old fashioned? Continue reading “Your baby is hungry? Feed them anywhere and anytime!”

Avast me Hardies! Thar be Buried Internet Treasure!

Our Home Library! 

There is a little known secret….

I am not really sure that I should even tell you about it… because it may make life and searching that much tougher for me. We’re friends now, so let me share some of my booty with you…. but first, let me tell you how I discovered it.

Have you been to a library lately? If you haven’t then you’d be shocked. Many libraries today are not filled with reference books, in fact, the Dewey Decimal system really isn’t used too much. Libraries are filled today with newspapers, romance novels, sometimes movies , video games and the requisite homeless guy. Not too much is left of what we called a library a decade or two ago. It doesn’t even smell the same

Why is this?

Some folks blame the failure of the library system to the disinterest of the ignorant American Public. However, I don’t think we are any more ignorant than we have ever been; in fact, I am always impressed with how smart we all are becoming. Afterall, we continue in California  to vote down those stupid tax increases … so we’re figuring it out.

I would credit our increased intelligence to the Internet which first gained wide acceptance by late 1991 … There are ‘no more secrets’ out there and anyone can sit down and check out what’s happening around the world or research almost anything. The internet has replaced libraries as the ‘source’ for data acquisition. Young people today can view ‘original sources’ on-line, grab pictures and write their entire papers and reports for class without ever going nto the ‘stacks’ ( in olden times, that’s the place in the library where we would look up what takes us seconds to do on-line). Continue reading “Avast me Hardies! Thar be Buried Internet Treasure!”

Can Men Write Advice Columns?

Men seem to write — but can they write advice columns?

Let’s just say that I have read a lot of advice columns over the years and frankly, they all seem to be written by women. I am not saying that women don’t have an interesting perspective, but it does have a female twist and we’re the one’s getting twisted.

Dear abby
Dear Abby seems to be hitting it’s ‘next generation’ phase with the daughter taking over the long run column. The perspective hasn’t changed much. In my humble opinion, she sides with aged parents over the needs of adult children and future generations. Personally, a child’s college tuition comes before grandma’s world vacation. Continue reading “Can Men Write Advice Columns?”

Hey, MEN! Time to improve your minds…. make babies!

Dad's getting Smarter!
Dad’s getting smarter day by day

In my never ending effort to improve the male of the species, my never hard working research team has discovered a fascinating bit of knowledge that the world feminist conspiracy  and population bomb folks have somehow kept secret.

“Fatherhood produces changes in very high
cognitive-level areas,” said Kozorovitskiy
at a meeting of the Forum of European
Neurosciences in Vienna, Austria, last week.”

Yep, making babies is good for men’s minds. Well, actually, becoming a father improves the male brain! This ground breaking discovery was published in ‘The New Scientist’ Magazine 27 July 2006.

Now, all this research and data came from monkeys… so, it may be a little optimistic. But, they wrote it down and I am putting it on the internet… so it must be true, right?

Besides you really, really want to believe it’s true anyway!

So, men…. ‘Coach Dad’ offers the following advice….
practice, practice  and practice… make babies and get smarter!

 

Roger Freberg