Sweeping Dust from the Corners

From the less interesting niches of daddom on a very slow news day:

1. Proud Parenting (a site catering to gay dads) has 8 "tricks" to getting kids to sleep, almost as if kids of two fathers might somehow sleep differently.
2. Daddyplanet.com (a new web site devoted to some of the plainest vanilla commentary and trying to get visiting fathers to click on advertisements) has the scoop that dads like grills and Sears is offering discounts.
3. Alison has her dad on her show, "The Daily Alison" (again), but this time to announce he is selling his car and — at a little less than 4 minutes — to go on and on about his daughter and John Wayne:

Boys with Toys

Four Austin boys with electronic toys are having fun, having created (so far) 221 episodes of DadLabs videos — although Ad Age only counts 90 so maybe there is a counting issue — and a few fewer blog entries.

Today it is "Starter Pets" on the video and the most recent blog entry concerns the puzzled dad puzzled by the requests and puzzles of his kids. Fathers still haven't reached Martha Stewart, Dear Abby or even Dr. Ruth peaks, but it is good to see someone's working on it.

** They claim to be "Taking Back Paternity," but don't ever hint at where it has gone. **