Breaking Dads: The Parenting Podcast

This week we take a moment to reflect on the Breaking Dads projects and how much life has changed for us as we look forward to the future of the podcasts. To leave comments, listen to past episodes and more go to the page for this episode http://www.breakingdads.com/bd/pod/ep-69-reflections.

This episode Jeff and James talk about having The Talk. To leave comments, listen to past episodes and more go to the page for this episode http://www.breakingdads.com/bd/pod/ep-68-the-talk

This episode Jeff and James talk about spicy food and overall strategies for dealing with picky eaters. Visit www.breakingdads.com for past episodes and more.

This episode Jeff and James look back at spring break. Was it everything they hoped it would be? How has it changed from last year? Does it foreshadow how summer is going to go? Visit www.breakingdads.com for past episodes and more.

This episode Jeff and James look at the role of cluttering and decluttering in their lives, and consider ways to stop the madness and make life more clutter free. Visit www.breakingdads.com for past episodes and more.

This episode we are so very pleased to present to you, the kindly listener, our perspective, however uncouth, on the socially significant role of manners in parenting. Thank you for listening, and for your words of support, dearest friends scattered like the politest of pollen across the wide expanses of that peaceful universe of the internet. Visit www.breakingdads.com for past episodes and more.

This episode Jeff and James discuss how life has changed for Jeff now that he's back at work. Visit www.breakingdads.com for past episodes and more.

This episode Jeff and James look back at the ever-romantic Hallowtine's Day and consider if things have gotten out of hand. Visit www.breakingdads.com for past episodes and more.

This episode is a special one for Jeff and James - it marks the last time they will record during daylight hours as Jeff is returning to full-time paid work. Jeff talks about preparing to transition from stay-at-home dad to employee again. Visit www.breakingdads.com for past episodes, reviews, family friendly Let's Play videos and more.

This episode Jeff and James talk about the chaos and fun of fieldtrips. Visit www.breakingdads.com for past episodes, reviews, family friendly Let's Play videos and more.

This episode Jeff and James look at kids and anxiety. Visit www.breakingdads.com for past episodes, reviews, family friendly Let's Play videos and more.

This episode Jeff and James look at whining. Sadly, whining is not a new grape harvesting technique. Visit www.breakingdads.com for past episodes, reviews, family friendly Let's Play videos and more.

This episode Jeff and James talk about the wild, knotted, matted, bird-infested world of children's hair. But mostly we talk about the fun and horror of taking kids for haircuts. Visit www.breakingdads.com for past episodes, reviews, family friendly Let's Play videos and more.

This episode Jeff tells James about how one of his kids has gone vegetarian and how the world has still not tilted off into the sun. Visit www.breakingdads.com for past episodes, reviews, family friendly Let's Play videos and more.

In our final episode of 2015 we talk about the guy in the red suit. Warning: unless you want us to destroy magic for your children, maybe listen to this one when they're not in the room. Visit www.breakingdads.com for past episodes, reviews, family friendly Let's Play videos and more.

This episode Jeff and James look back through the haze of smoke, booze and sugary treats to compare Christmas Parties from the 1850s (their childhood) to today. Visit www.breakingdads.com for past episodes, reviews, family friendly Let's Play videos and more.

This episode Jeff and James take some class gift buying categories and cook up some absurd possibilities for your enjoyment (and possible purchase). Visit www.breakingdads.com for past episodes, reviews, family friendly Let's Play videos and more.

This episode of Breaking Dads Jeff and James pause to consider whether they are really doing enough to ensure that they are raising level 20 geeks. Visit www.breakingdads.com for past episodes, reviews, family friendly Let's Play videos and more.

This episode of Breaking Dads is a reflection on this recent Halloween where we took our kids around together to rob strangers. And then we reflect on dark and menacing Halloweens past. Visit www.breakingdads.com for past episodes, reviews, family friendly Let's Play videos and more.

This episode we look at how we are still buzzing off the sugar that was in our childhood cereals, and how our kids will likely never know about this phenomenon. Visit www.breakingdads.com for past episodes, reviews, family friendly Let's Play videos and more.

This episode we look at how much lazy Jeff hates orange peels and loathes litterless lunches. Visit www.breakingdads.com for past episodes and family-friendly let's play videos.

This episode we look at how we determine what boardgames and videogames we let our kids play, and how we make those decisions. Visit www.breakingdads.com for past episodes and family-friendly let's play videos.

This episode we celebrate our one year anniversary as podcasters, and look back at many of the other more important anniversaries in our lives. Visit www.breakingdads.com for past episodes and information on which anniversary you give lead.

This episode Jeff and James discuss what kinds of films and TV they think are appropriate for what age of kids, and pause to consider how screwed up they are as people because of their own upbringings. Visit www.breakingdads.com for past episodes and information on which primary grade is appropriate for Game of Thrones.

This episode Jeff and James prepare to make plans about making plans in regards to how woefully underprepared they are in the event of a natural disaster. Learn how to prepare along with us as we go through a lot of useful info. Visit www.breakingdads.com for past episodes and information on how to survive earthquakes.

This episode Jeff and James talk about how much they didn't get excited about videogame releases as kids, unlike kids today who NEED LEGO Dimensions almost as much as Jeff needs air. Visit www.breakingdads.com for past episodes and not-stepping-on-bricks tips.

This episode Jeff and James talk about their decision and experiences surrounding moving their kids to new (and different) schools. Also, Jeff can't be allowed to time travel. Ever. Unless he already has, in which case I should look behind me right... NOW! Visit www.breakingdads.com for past episodes and time travel tips.

This episode we are reminded about our dependence on electricity as the power goes out for two days. Plus, find out if we ate the neighbours or not! Fun for the whole family. Visit www.breakingdads.com for past episodes and recipes.

This episode Jeff takes us to the fair! Hear about the brave exploits of the Superdogs! Shake your fist at the brutalities of event parking! Learn about one man's love, in the face of all odds, for Canadian music! Visit www.breakingdads.com for past episodes and to lick the screen occasionally for a cotton candy flavoured internet experience.

This episode we pause, breathe, and consider whether summer went at all as we planned (it did not, but was still excellent thanks for asking). It's time to go back to school! Visit www.breakingdads.com for past episodes and to hear what the sound of silence is as our kids flee the house and hit the books.

This episode we all recover from a sleepover our kids did. Also note the audio is a little quieter on this episode as we recorded it in an abandoned grain silo in the middle of the prairies. For effect, of course. Visit www.breakingdads.com for past episodes and to hear what people who really benefit from the effects of caffeine sound like.

This episode we wonder how much time and energy we spend capturing and conserving memories until someone accidentally dumps a cup of coffee on a hard drive. Visit www.breakingdads.com for past episodes and glimpses into the distant past.

This episode looks at how much fun you can have with fires and bears whilst spending quality time in the great outdoors. Visit www.breakingdads.com for past episodes and JUST LOOK AT THE GROUND AND WALK BACKWARDS SLOWLY.

This episode looks at pets and whether Jeff's family needs a cute kitten because the other cat already hates him. Visit www.breakingdads.com for past episodes and WOOF WOOF MEOW WOOF.

Toys are like a fine layer of dust, infiltrating your life and coating every square inch of your living space if you're not careful. This episode we give some thought to the temporary, supposedly fun, manufactured chaos that comes and goes like waves in our homes. Visit www.breakingdads.com for past episodes and other dystopian fun.

How much screentime is enough? Enough to get you through making dinner? Enough for them to see the world through a matrix-like haze? Visit www.breakingdads.com for past episodes and other dystopian fun.

This week your isolated hosts talk about the fear and loathing of having to engage the weird and not so wonderful world of playdates. Visit www.breakingdads.com for past episodes and other antisocial fun.

This week James tries to convince James he's defective because he doesn't have a sanctioned hobby. James tries to convince Jeff he's a toaster. Visit www.breakingdads.com for past episodes as well for our other fine hobby related podcasts.

Summer holidays approach and we embrace them with equal amounts of excitement and dread. How will we keep these monsters busy, and ourselves sane, for the next two months? Visit www.breakingdads.com for past episodes as well for our other fine podcasts.

Why would you want a job that has weekends off? Because that would be absurd. Don't we become parents because we enjoy working 24/7/365/death? Visit www.breakingdads.com for past episodes as well as our other fine podcasts.

Who likes making lunches? And would making an Adventure Time based mosaic out of food make it any less painful? If you need creative kids' lunch ideas, don't visit www.breakingdads.com for past episodes as well as our other fine podcasts.

Do we procrastinate? Maybe later. There's some other really important stuff to do right now that simply can't wait. If you need help finding something to procrastinate with, visit www.breakingdads.com for past episodes as well as our other fine podcasts.

Kids need to try on lying, but they're often thankfully terrible at it. Jeff and James pause to consider what kind of awful liars they are

Routine makes our worlds go round. But how do our kids respond to it?

Marketing drives people to buy, buying drives the economy, it all drives parents crazy. Especially when it's aimed at kids.

This week we talk about rainbows and kittens and specific textures. In other words, the exciting world of kid's fashion.

James has a cold so he interviews Jeff about the adventure that is being Jeff.

Jeff explains the mystery of why his kids enjoy going to the dentist.

We talk about our favorite children's books and the importance of being read to. The kids. Not us. Because we can totally almost read already.

Few topics get people fired up like crime and punishment. Spare the rod, spoil the child? Spare the child, throw the outdated rods in the garbage? And what about when they get you and their teachers soooo angry?

Are today's children smarter and less competent? Is the future all about velcro shoes, unknowable job prospects and robots?