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The First Annual Doctor+Dad Family Awards!

When you’re a parent, simply making it through the week often feels like a reason to celebrate. So when you actually manage to survive an entire year, it’s time to start handing out the awards. That’s what we’re doing right now – commemorating some of our family’s favorite, funniest and most foolish moments from our […]

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Parenting pyrotechnics

It’s extremely loud, more than a little scary, and over before you know it. Here’s what raising kids feels like, Fourth of July fireworks style! Have a wonderful weekend, everyone! Enjoy every second of it!

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5 reasons you should bring back Family Game Night

Whatever happened to Family Game Night? Did it go out of style right along with hair scrunchies and Hammer pants? Or did we just get too old for our parents to force us to stay home and play games with them anymore? Well, whatever the reason, now we’re the parents, so we get to force […]

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First-borns are smarter Part 2: Act your age

Our last post gave you the real deal about birth order: First-born kids tend to have bigger vocabularies and higher IQs (mostly because they got a lot more one-on-one interaction with Mom and Dad back when they were the only game in town), while later-born kids tend to develop more creative and less verbal ways […]