A little background. Not an AHD yet but the wife is a few months along now w/ our first. We're really excited, but expecting alot of work in the years to come as far as parenting goes. She is a school administrator, has smokin' benefits, and is the primary bread winner. I am a construction mngr and not too far behind salary-wise. We are playing w/ our budget to see if we can swing me staying home for awhile w/ the kid.

My daughter is not yet at an age where I can begin potty training, but she loves to explore the world. As a man, I proudly pee standing up any time the chance arrives (hands on hips and everything), but lately my daughter really seems like she wants to know what happens in the the ol' bathroom. She's really not old enough yet where I feel like I can close the door while peeing, but at the same time I don't really think it's appropriate for her to try to get a better view of the process either.

Don't know of a better way to ask this, so here goes:

My nearly 4 year old son is heavily in the "no" phase. Every instruction, is met with "no". Simple requests like "put that down" or get down off the chair please" are met with "no". And it's not that is the only word he knows. He thinks it's a game. I have spanked in the past, but only save that for the most serious of punishments.(Intentional injuring of someone or repeated defiance of something that has been timed out 3 or 4 times).

Hey dads! I thought that I would be the first to jump in here with an anonymous question since the site has so graciously added this functionality.