When Josh became straight edge at 15, he wasn’t thinking about how he’d talk about drugs and alcohol with 15-year-olds of his own. Now he’s in his thirties and a father to three sugar addicts. We compare notes on our experiences alienating people throughout high school as conscientious objectors to illicit fun.

In which I teach corporate jargon to an uninitiated old friend, Ben Wolford, who recently transitioned both to parenthood and a corporate gig.

A conversation about managing splinters of time and energy to stay productive as a parent.

“Rolling with the punches is part of this whole time conversation that I never accounted for.”

“People don’t talk about this, but this is way more common than we ever knew.”

That’s our first guest talking about his wife’s four episodes and counting of mastitis, a breast infection that has had her in and out of the hospital since giving birth last year and left Dad at home learning the ropes of solo parenting a little earlier than planned.

In this inaugural episode of the *Manhattan and a Milk* podcast, your hosts discuss how to love others and yourself while carrying a shit-stained blanket from the arrival gate to baggage claim.

Among other things.

We drink Manhattans, of course, and discuss our experience with breast infections, sleep training, and the long-term benefits of learning to parent solo in crisis mode.

Plus: How to handle the relentless onslaught of bad advice from the persistently, tirelessly well-intentioned people surrounding every young parent.

“People don’t talk about this, but this is way more common than we ever knew.”

That’s our first guest talking about his wife’s four episodes and counting of mastitis, a breast infection that has had her in and out of the hospital since giving birth last year and left Dad at home learning the ropes of solo parenting a little earlier than planned.

In this inaugural episode of the *Manhattan and a Milk* podcast, your hosts discuss how to love others and yourself while carrying a shit-stained blanket from the arrival gate to baggage claim.

Among other things.

We drink Manhattans, of course, and discuss our experience with breast infections, sleep training, and the long-term benefits of learning to parent solo in crisis mode.

Plus: How to handle the relentless onslaught of bad advice from the persistently, tirelessly well-intentioned people surrounding every young parent.