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Sling Your Books

DadLabs Ep. 276 Gear Daddy – Daddy Troy takes a close look at all of the features of the Sling Bookcase for kids. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know it’s important to read to your kids and to encourage them to explore books. Does this kid-level, face-out display unit encourage the family to gather around for a spot of literacy? This piece of gear garners the much sought after DadLabs Seal of Approval. Bam! This video is brought to you by BabyBjorn.

Owen Shows Us His Monkey

DadLabs Ep. 275 Daditude – Since this week at DadLabs is all about reading to kids, we decided to bring you another episode of Owen’s Reading Nook. This time, our gingery literary master gives his own interpretation to a genuine classic – Curious George by H. A. Rey. As you have never seen it before. George is a lucky monkey – he gets thrown in a sack, goes to prison, meets a pedophile and ends up living in a zoo. The book always is better than the movie, isn’t it? This video is brought to you by BabyBjorn.

Experts Pick Nighty-Night Winners

DadLabs Ep. 274 The Lounge – What’s the greatest bedtime read for kids of all time? We ask our panel of experts and veteran parents, What is your favorite bedtime book to read to you kids?, and they responded with a pleasing variety of recommendations from the classic to the modern to the completely wiseass. Watch their responses, then add your own. What is your favorite bedtime children’s book of all time? Please let us know so we can continue to expand the DadLabs Library of Narcoleptic Awesomeness. This video is brought to you by BabyBjorn.

Gearing Up for Chowing Down

DadLabs Ep.272 Gear Daddy – Daddy Troy serves up a steaming helping of gear advice for dads hoping to gather the crew around the family dinner table. Food prep is a great way to draw kids into the rituals of family meals, and The Learning Tower by Little Partners gives kids a step up in the process. BabySmart Cooshee Classic Booster seats can also bring the little ones to the table, and the BabyBjorn Soft Bib is a classic. Put your napkin in your lap, keep your elbows off the table, and watch this helpful video on gear for the family meal. This video is brought to you by BabyBjorn.

Clothes Shopping with the Boys

DadLabs Ep. 271 Daditude – The pregnant man experiment has been going pretty well even though Owen has had some overly emotional moments. The dads take Owen to maternity clothing store in Austin to see what his clothes options are as he tries to maintain his masculinity. Owen is such an unattractive pregnant woman. This video brought to you by BabyBjorn.

The Best Books For Bedtime

DadLabs Ep. 273 The Lab – Reading to the kids at bedtime isn’t just a matter of doing what’s good for them (everybody knows the benefits in terms of literacy and vocab), it can also be pure comedic entertainment. Children’s literature has come a long way from Dick and Jane. Check out the hilarious and offbeat books that the guys at DadLabs are reading to their own kids. They can actually read. This video is brought to you by BabyBjorn.

Here are the great selections from the DadLabs bookshelf: * Slide Already! * The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Vintage) * Meet Wild Boars * How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? * The Sneetches and Other Stories * Charlie Parker Played Be Bop * Baloney (Henry P.) * The Night I Followed the Dog * Frida

What are some the titles you love? Your comments on DadLabs.com register you for our exciting BabyBjorn giveaway!

Episode 32. Shooting in Extreme Weather

Shooting in extreme weather conditions? Heavy rain or snow and high winds can pose quite the obstacle, but with a little bit of foresight, a few tips from Matt, and the right equipment, such as a rain barney and wooley, your show will go on!

Family Meal Tricks

DadLabs Ep. 270 The Lounge – Daddy Clay and Daddy Owen ask their panel of parenting experts about the family dinner, Do you sit down and have dinner with your family every night? And if so, how do you pull it off? Some suggestions from the panel include: try family lunches, turn off the TV, call in some help, get the kids involved with the cooking, order in and most certainly make it fun. This video was brought to you by BabyBjorn.

The Magic Elixir That Cures All Family Ills

DadLabs Ep. 269 The Lab – Daddy Clay and Daddy Brad reveal what can cure all family ills. Well maybe that is overstating it a bit, but if you found something that helped your kids perform better in school, avoid sex, drugs, alcohol and tobacco, reduced the likelihood of an eating disorder and helped the development of vocabulary, would you do it? Then make sure you eat with your family. This video is brought to you by BabyBjorn.

The benefits of the family dinner are incredibly well studied and proven especially with kids approaching their teenage years. And it doesn’t matter if you are having a five course dinner or take-out, or whether the TV is on or off. Having
5-7 meals a week as a family has major benefits.

The enemies of the family dinner are over scheduling your kids with activities and your work commute. Be careful of these dangers.

And thankfully, the family dinner will not help your kids stay away from rock-n-roll. I wanna rock!