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The perfect Father’s day gift for an at-home dad

Posted 01 April 2010 | By James | Categories: Housework, doodad video | No Comments

The way I see it, a few minor tweaks and this thing could be changing diapers. Awesome…

Trust your instinct? Nurture Shock. Part 1.

Trust your instinct? Nurture Shock. Part 1.

Posted 26 March 2010 | By James | Categories: Books, Career, Discipline, Education, Sleep, doodad reviews, doodad topics, doodad wrote it | 4 Comments

I stumbled across a new book called Nurture Shock: New Thinking About Children. When I saw the author’s name — Po Bronson — I was happy to see he’d been thoughtful enough to write a new one just for me, so I picked it up.

In honour of World Water Day

Posted 23 March 2010 | By James | Categories: Environment, Health, doodad video | No Comments

I’m a day late. Yesterday was World Water Day.
This video was just released as part of the Story of Stuff series. Water from my hometown — Guelph — is being sold to Nestle for next to nothing and shipped all over the world for a hefty profit. It’s time we all stop the madness go [...]

Radical homemaking

Posted 18 March 2010 | By James | Categories: Career, Environment, Housework, Time management, doodad wrote it | 2 Comments

When my wife returned from a recent scrapbooking weekend with the ladies, she told me there’d been a fair bit of curiosity about what it is I actually do. She didn’t tell me much more than that — what happens at scrapbooking apparently stays at scrapbooking.
Well, there’s not really much mystery to it. I do [...]

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