DISQUS

Libby,

That sounds a little too extreme for me. I am going to make sure that there is some balance though.

foodad

...try reading more than one article you glutinous turd.

Noodad readers are real men. They either already know how to throw a football, or don\'t give a rat\'s ass about football and are busy teaching their kids how to pwn at Halo.

Have fun with your bow ties.

Who cares?

Beth,

Joking and one-upsmanship aside, please see my previous response to Sue. I will be happy to post an article that educates noodads on the finer points of the business as well as how to select a studio.

We would greatly appreciate it and maybe it can be a collaboration between you and your dance.net \"team\".


Thanks for coming to noodad.com and thanks for your continued participation.

foodad

Sue,

Welcome to noodad.com, the place where we help dads fumble through fatherhood.

I would like to take this opportunity to take you up on your offer. If you would like to put together an article that you think would be helpful for educating noodads like us on choosing a dance studio, we would publish it on the site, and then link to it from this article so as to present your point of view on this topic.

BTW - the article you read above is a pretty typical conversation in noodad-ese. We dads start by simply expressing dissatisfaction, \'overreact\' to the problem, take examples to extremes and then joke absurdly or rudely about the topic. What can we say? We\'re men. Please help. :zzz You can find our email addresses on the about page of the site.

At the end of the day, we succeeded in our aim of presenting a topic, getting feedback and giving perspective to our vast, worldwide noodad readership.

We would love to have you participate.

foodad

>>>And just one more thing...you might be paying, but you\'re not the customer...you\'re child is.


Are you serious? My kid is the customer!?

The customer is the person who made the decision and ultimately purchased a good or service. My daughter would not be the customer, she would be a consumer (in software terms a user). The customer is the person you need to satisfy in order to make certain that they repeat the business. The customer IS indeed the person who paid. You may want to butt-out of an area you clearly do not understand. Leave the business to your girlfriend.


Also, do not get all high-and-mighty on spelling with us. Otherwise I shall have to give you a 30 minute dissertation on the difference between \"your\" and \"you\'re\", as well as the irony of you misspelling \"misspelled\".

We type fast. We do not have fancy editors. We have day jobs. You still get the point.

Beth,

You have not offended me in the least. I am the co-founder of a site that tries to combine aspects of \"The Man Show\" and \"babycenter.com\". (I am perplexed that you do not seem to know the difference between the brake of an automobile and the clutch, but I understand what you are getting at.)

My site is a forum for everyone to discuss what it means to be a dad and how to get through it without f$*#ing up too much.

That said, our site does not profess to know it all. We do not have a slick motto like \"Making noodads into pro-dads one dad at a time\". Ours is \"We\'re here for ya man!\" And if one of us is tweaked about something, usually the other has had a similar experience and we take that to the site where we are often corrected, or in this case, slapped around by professionals who do not share our viewpoints.

Thanks for participating in the site and please learn the difference between the pedal in the middle and the far left one before driving again.

foodad

I am surpised by the attitude of most of the comments here. Here is an opportunity to educate a disgruntled customer (and the his hundreds of thousands of loyal, daily noodad readers), but instead you lambaste him like a bunch of anonymous, know-it-all, forumites.

For shame! You are only casting your fellow dance recial businesswomyn, not to mention the American small business owner, into a dark light! We are the pathetic ones? What happened to \"the customer is always right?\"

Aside from Redhawk, who is a friend of the site, who of you has attempted to make Noodad a believer without cursing him out and feeling sorry for his children.

Dancer, please!

Noodad is like \"best dad on server\". This is not some dead-beat, child support dodging, single father spending all of his 10 kids child support money on the horses. He is influential. He pays both the bills and attention to his kids. This is the kind of guy you want to convert to your side, not thrust deeper into the anus-of-hatred.

If Noodad is feeling like this, chances are that many other noodads are feeling the same way. They aren\'t usually shy about telling us when we are off base.

Looks like customer service is truly dead in America, or at least in the kiddie ballet industry.

Noodad! We\'re under attack by a twisted dance teacher sorority! My eyes and ears. THEY BURN!!

I am so glad my kid is not in ballet right now.

In the words of Nelson Muntz: HA HA!

I can\'t believe that I, foodad, the gamer who has had nintendo, (my brother had) super nintendo, nintendo 64 and gamecube-- not to mention Atari 2600, Gameboy and Sega Genesis-- does not have a Wii yet.

If anyone wants to send me one to wiiview, I would be happy to do so. :zzz

Noodad and Reviewdad, could you have your wife speak to mine?

Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum

nothing worse. No \"ummming\" on my site.

foo

This is not the first time we have recommended using video game to get closer to your wife!

http://www.noodad.com/cms/her/body/reconnecting...

Kevin,

I apologize and I hope your son is OK now. When I was a kid, my brother fell down the back steps in his walker because one of us left the kitchen door open. It\'s scary stuff. Thanks for being a kid safety advocate.

foo

Hero,

Do you mean Voltron
http://animeoltre.altervista.org/robot/voltron.jpg

or...

Voltron?
http://www.chios06.org/galaxygarrison/images/mi...

They are both Voltron

foodad

The video was 2:52. I estimate that your daughter was on camera for about 62 seconds.

That\'s $.4838 per second.

I lay claim to \"Emergency Nudity\" for my next band name.

Noodad,

What ever were we thinking when we wrote this article? We should have consulted Amber, whose firm grip on reality should filter all of our future installments.

Check out the ground breaking theory that I call... Ambervision

Love of \"her role model\" and \"girl\" Lisa from the Doodlebops = Genevieve Goings to the bottom of the list & Terri Irwin & Vivian McLaughlin warping somehow onto the list and rocketing to the top.


Eureka! Next time let\'s just do the Top 10 Number 1 Babes on Children\'s Television.

foodad
-straight from the Noodad Labs

Please tell me this is a sicked and twisted joke and that you did not leave your kid on a table in a Bumbo.

Noodad! CMON!!! Jedi Howie? Padawan maybe.

Chilltown pwns!

This is only a test

Kid Safety 101 Final Exam

20) Which of the following is safest:
A) Minor inconvenience.
B) Keeping identifying information from potential predators.
C) Donuts!

A better solution than even monogramming, if you cannot inconvenience your little muffin for safety\'s sake, is to put a piece of colored tape on her bag.

genright,

File that under \"how not to demonstrate\"... :x

Ehsona you make very some excellent points. Would you like to write for us? :)

I think that your views on this matter reflect the conservative approach and one that I would tend to agree with. But let\'s say that there are two sides to the coin and that a more liberal approach could also work as long as the parents communicated the rules to their kids.

The big assumption here is this:
Kids are not stupid. They understand what you tell them. Your voice IS an alarm in their minds.

If you are a \"naked family\", but you explain that we are not naked outside of our homes and that it is no appropriate to be naked with adults other than mommy and daddy, meaning you have defined the appropriateness of nakedness, then I think that a more liberal approach to nakedness could also be acceptable. You need to draw the line between innocence and danger. The most important weapon in the fight against perversion is talking with your children in a way that arms them in the event that they somehow fall into this kind of situation.

Great comment. I hope to see you around more and please check out my article on telling kids where babies come from.

http://www.noodad.com/cms/instructions/afterbir...


foodad

With vacation season upon us, I thought this would be a great reminder of how to travel with little ones.

Please no uuummmiing on my site!

Who do you think you are? Madonna?

:grin