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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!”

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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!”

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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.

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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?”

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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

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A salute to Toby Keith…. this beer’s on me!

 One of my favorite country singers is Toby Keith.

 

Me and the TobeMeister!

I had a chance to meet Toby Keith last year as he wandered into our little part of the world, shake his hand and realize that he was a big man…. don’t meet too many around these parts. 

When Toby was in Baghdad entertaining the troops, my daughter listened to his free concert … actually –to her credit — she ( a lieutenant ) gave her men all the tickets she got so they could see him in person… Kristin had to listen from a great distance. So, when Kristin arrived home… we took her to see him live…. up close and personal.

He is a great American…. no doubt about it!

 

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This music video gave me some of my biggest laughs… especially when Toby slips a couple of pills to himself before his date with ‘twins.’ The above YOUtube link may die soon… CLICK here for the REAL thing!

We need More Toby Keiths.

Roger Freberg
PS. Check out Toby Keith’s Fan Site!