Mealtime can feel like navigation four very different worlds - from a hostage-style broccoli negotiation to a kale-eating celebration. Dan explores what each of his children's eating habits reveal about their personalities - and what family dinners mean when your kids span generations.
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E3: Is This Gentle Enough For You?
Gentle parenting sounds great - until you're three hours into a toddler negotiation that ends with, "But I don't want to brush my teeth forever." Dan gets honest about the tension between being patient, being present, and not losing your mind.
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E2: Daddy's Popsicle
When Ruby walks in on Dan peeing and proudly announces, "I see Daddy's popsicle," things spiral fast. This is a story about panic, hilarity, and how one moment of comic horror turned into the exact kind of emotional support every new dad needs.
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E4: Accidental Rituals
The smallest rituals often become the most meaningful - especially when you're not parenting full-time. Dan reflects on bedtime stories, quirky traditions, and the absurd "Life Lessons" he told his kids at night, which somehow still echo years later.
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E1: Toto, We're Not In Kansas Anymore
Raising Ruby in 2025 feels like parenting in another universe compared to the early 2000s. In this episode, Dan explores how baby monitors, food and parenting information have changed dramatically - and what it's like to raise a toddler with one foot in the diaper aisle and the other in a pharmacy's joint support section.
Host Dan Shimmerman is a father of four, with three grown kids and a toddler named Ruby who is still mastering the art of not putting green beans up her nose. In this show, he shares funny, raw, and heartfelt stories about parenting across decades, navigating second chances, and trying to be a present dad while inching toward the age of colonoscopies and lower back pain.This isn't a parenting advice show. There are no hacks, no "top 10 tips," and definitely no judgment. Just one father's attempt to stay grounded, grateful, and maybe a little less overwhelmed - one bedtime meltdown at a time.
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