Recently K Honey and I started talking about storing our child’s cord blood, the blood in the umbilical cord. This blood usually is discarded but with the recent advancements in science and the potential power of stem cells (which can be found in cord blood) there seem to be more and more reasons to preserve [...]

In the Freakonomics chapter entitled, “What Makes a Perfect Parent?” (I’ll be drawing on this from time to time), the authors make a series of interesting comparisons. They give us a series of factors and ask us to guess which have an effect on our child’s test scores in school, and which don’t. As usual [...]

It seems pretty universally accepted among parents that kids are good at spending money while saving it is almost a pillar of Hercules. Lets remember that our kids are only as good at these kind of things as we teach them to be. In other words, as parents we must create an environment that will [...]

Ways of Utilizing Piggy Bank Time
Once piggy bank time has been defined and located, it’s time to smash that piggy open! These are the main ways I take advantage of my piggy bank time:

MP3 player and podcasts - This is the silver bullet of piggy bank time. I have an iPod shuffle and it is [...]

Piggy Bank Time is Everywhere
The first step to using piggy bank time is finding it. Think of it as rummaging between the coach cushions and finding money you didn’t know you were quite literally sitting on.
Here’s some examples from a quasi-typical day in my life:

waiting in line at the supermarket, post office, bail bond agent’s, [...]

Piggy Bank Time is a concept coined by Vera Birkenbihl, a renown brain researcher, in her audio series Memory Optimizer. In short, piggy bank time is the moments you have throughout your day and week which are unharnessed but could be utilized to improve your memory… but not only.
What’s so good about Piggy Bank Time?
Have [...]

As a father-to-be, I’ve been scouring the internet for useful resources that will help me with the very basics of parenthood.
This is perhaps one of the best resources I’ve found yet: Project DAD.
Project DAD is an initiative funded by the European Union that seeks to provide e-learning resources for fathers and fathers-to-be. It’s available in [...]

Intro
This is the first in what I hope will be an on-going series about how to maximize our efficiency as parents. I know what you’re thinking, “what on Earth does that even mean?”
Look at it this way: in the recent years there has been almost an explosion of personal productivity products onto the market. It [...]

I wanted to thank some blogs and podcasts where LostParentDiary has been mentioned!
Working Dad: An Unauthorized Guide to Parenting - Thanks to Paul Nyhan for mentioning my post “dad = persona non grata in delivery room” on his blog.
gamingwithbaby.com: all your diapers are belong to us - I was pleasantly surprised by the completely unsolicited [...]

A few weeks back, The Word Nerds, one of the first podcasts I ever started to listen to, did a great episode on baby talk. It was also their 100th episode and 2 year anniversary, congrats guys!
In the podcast, Howard and Dave define baby talk as a natural adjustment we make when speaking to those [...]