Daddy Clay: Daddy Brad, I need your help. The new year's almost here and I'm really
struggling with this year's fatherhood resolutions. Daddy Brad: Maybe that can be your resolution.
Come up with resolutions. You should resolve to keep your floors cleaner by getting one
of these BabyBjorn bibs. Always made with safe materials and always designed by the
Swedish. BabyBjorn. Daddy Clay: I'm serious here Brad. I mean,
other than reprinting last year's list, I'm totally stuck.
Daddy Brad: Well you know, now might be a great time to call in the experts.
Ron Mattocks: Number one on there is I need to do a better job keeping up the house. One
of the other ones is I need to work at building up my kid's self confidence a lot more.
Owen Egerton: I think your resolution should be continue shaving, but not your face. Well
you stay the same person you are Clay. You don't need resolutions.
Daddy Clay: Stay the course. Owen: Stay the course. Success in 2011.
Matt Gross: Well the easiest best thing to do is always to resolve to do things that
you're going to do already. Why exert yourself? Fatherhood is difficult enough already. Why
make it harder on yourself by spending the first six to nine months of the year feeling
like there's something that you should be doing because you promised yourself and your
family that you'd be a better dad. Craig Heimbuch: I have a resolution to be
home by 6 every night. My resolutions with three kids six and under have a lot to do
with marriage actually and trying to be a better husband to my wife. And therefore set
an example for my sons on how to do it and my daughter on what to expert.
Dr. Ari Brown: My recommendation is to practice what you preach because you are your child's
role model. So if you want your child eating healthy, and you want your child to exercise
regularly, that's what you have to do. So get off the couch, go exercise, cook a healthy
meal and eat your vegetables. Daddy Brad: Now those are some great possibilities.
Daddy Clay: Those are very good. But I need to have my own resolutions because I'm a big
believer in resolutions. Daddy Brad: It can be a productive exercise.
Daddy Clay: Yes, absolutely. It forces you to reflect and think. But I've made one huge
mistake the last couple of years. Daddy Brad: You wrote them down.
Daddy Clay: Exactly. Daddy Brad: Oh, curse the blogger.
Daddy Clay: Same thing. Each of the last couple years, start saving for college. Plan more
outdoor and cultural activities with the kids. And spend more time with the third one whose
name is? Daddy Brad: Coop.
Daddy Clay: That one. Exactly. And I feel bad because it's rolling it over year after
year after year. And I've got to stop doing that. So my first resolution is no more recycling.
Daddy Brad: You hate the earth. No more recycling. Daddy Clay: No, no more recycling of resolutions.
Daddy Brad: Oh. Daddy Clay: Only new resolutions for 2011.
I've got a couple that I want to bring out today.
Daddy Brad: And they are? Daddy Clay: My first resolution is to be right
less often. Daddy Brad: That's going to be hard.
Daddy Clay: With my wife. Cause, what I mean is that I've been having these arguments with
my wife, these kind of uber arguments for over a decade. And I'm sure that I'm just
about to win this argument because I'm right. And so I'm just convinced that my need to
be right with my spouse is driving me into more and more conflict so I'm gonna get over
being right. I'm also in 2011, I'm going to do a thorough rethink on technology and my
kids. In 2010, I was very pro-tech and kids and felt like that there was a certain equipoise
that would be struck between family obligations, school, sports, the fact that I've got three
kids all battling over the same game console. That this will lead to a kind of equilibrium
that will be a healthy amount of technology in their lives. But I'm concerned and it's
time for a thorough re-eval. Daddy Brad: You're going all yellow legal
pad. Daddy Clay: No, I'm not convinced I'm going
yellow legal pad. But I am gonna take a hard look. How about you? What are you resolving
for 2011? Daddy Brad: My first one is I resolve to do
a better job creatively recognizing special events in my life with my wife.
Daddy Clay: AKA, remembering to buy her a birthday present.
Daddy Brad: And Valentine's. And anniversary Daddy Clay: You've been whiffing on these
major events for a couple of years now. Daddy Brad: I have. I'm gonna do better. I'm
gonna do better honey. I resolve to do better. Daddy Clay: Okay good and anything else having
to do with the kids? Daddy Brad: Yes. I am going to model for my
children healthy living. I'm gonna eat right and I'm gonna exercise.
Daddy Clay: Well, I heartily endorse this because it was a new year's resolution for
me two years ago. That's the only one I've done right.
Daddy Brad: Yeah, and you'e looking good. Daddy Clay: Yeah, I've lost 20 pounds.
Daddy Brad: Yeah, and I'm tired of being the fat one in this group. That's your job.
Daddy Clay: You know what Daddy Brad, the one resolution of yours I do agree with is
you definitely want to check out the fantastic feeding products available from BabyBjorn.
You may now know about their feeding products. You know that they're terrific because the
materials are guaranteed to be safe. The design is smart because it's BabyBjorn.
Daddy Brad: If you've got parenting New Year's resolutions, go on over to DadLabs.com and
let us know. Share them. You know, you're much more likely to keep them if you tell
the world. Tell us. Daddy Clay: Get it in print. Go over to DadLabs.com.
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