It's Friday and the weekend has nearly landed - time for some vintage comedy from Monty Python's Meaning of Life. If you haven't seen this in a while - turn up the PC speakers (especially if you're are work) and sing along! Here it goes ... a great song for dads - "every sperm is sacred"! :-)

-Stef

Hmmm ... some bar owners these days are getting very clever about getting their message through to parents.

Sign of the times?

(as seen on Marc Serena's blog http://www.lavueltadelos25.com)

-Stef

"What do you guys want for breakfast?" I ask my three pajama-wearing kids flopped sleepily over two couches on a promising Saturday morning. They’re with me every Saturday morning as part of a divorce agreement. We call it "Lazy Dadurday." And lazy it is. We wake up late, then trek to the bookstore, the pet store, the mall, or the pool, and just let it all hang out.

"What is there?" the kids ask absent-mindedly.

My children have faced the same breakfast choices since they were old enough to chew: frozen waffles, cereal, and toast. No more and no less. It's their version of death and taxes. Nonetheless, the sweetly inquisitive response — what is there? — is always the same.

It's as if they'd been replaced overnight with benevolent alien imposters who'd carefully studied everything about us but our breakfast rituals.

YAY - it's here ... the first episode of Sneaaking Off To My Shed. Check it out!

By Ryk Goddard - all rights reserved

If you'd like to send in your own ideas for an episode of Sneaking Off To My Shed contact us or visit the SOTMS page to find out more about the series.

Do you feel like you need to reserve a little "me time" in your busy day as a father to stay sane? Well - you're not alone! Comedian, radio-blogger and father Ryk Goddard let's us peak into the secret world of his shed where he plays out the naughty things dads do to stay sane. Listen to a podcast with Ryk where he talks about his ideas for the show and the sneaky stories he received from other dads (like "I dressed my daughter in spots and stripes just to annoy my wife").

Here's the trailer for the series:

Hope you all had a fantastic Easter break with your kids - for many of us it's back to work now, so here's the final word on Easter 2009. (sorry I just had to post this one ...)

-Stef

Dads have the power to enchant the kids when they can indulge in simple activities and celebrations along with the kids, and Easter provides an excellent opportunity for this. In addition to Easter decorations for the home, here are a few creative activities that will excite the kids immeasurably if dad can join them:

1. Baking an Easter Bunny Cake: If dad does not do much cooking, it is still possible to bake a bunny cake using a cake mix and readymade frosting that makes the job simple. But it will simply amaze the kids to see their dad baking a cake, and the Bunny Cake is going to be something too special for any kid in the world anyway.

2. Decorating Easter Eggs: All you need to do is to poke a small hole delicately in an egg, and drain it out till the shell becomes empty. Clean it, dry it, and now it is ready for funny decorations. Let your imagination run a riot, and encourage the kids to let their creative juices flow on the eggshells to create some wonderful decorations.

Just realised that we haven't had any music on DIY for a while now - so here you go ... the "Father / Daughter Dance Song" by Jack Kapanka.

-Stef

I just came across a headline on topnews.us that I thought was hilarious: "Fossils Reveal Dinosaurs Were Stay-at-Home Dads". The first paragraph reads "A study published in the journal Science reveals that many dinosaur fathers spent quality time baby-sitting the kids. This means that we need to give dinosaurs an extreme make-over from thinking of them as coldblooded, pea-brain tyrants to warmblooded, empathetic partners."

Well who would have thought? I guess you could call them Stay-At-Home-Dinosaurs (SAHD). Great! Nature leads the way. So I just wanted to say to all the cynics, I'm sure dinosaur dads taking an active interest in looking after their offspring is NOT the reason they're extinct. And a big up to all human stay-at-home-dads for following the parenting model of a species that lived for millions of years! :-)