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The BRO Survival & Preparedness GuideThe printable family manual: a kit and go-bag builder, water and food calculators, the core skills and a family emergency plan.Get ready, calmly

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Your grilled chicken burns because the whole grill is hot

Build the fire on half the grate, salt it the day before, and stop guessing at the joint with a knife.

GuideDadsCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

The first year after a diagnosis is mostly phone calls

Grief is real. So is the 45-day clock, the waitlist nobody put you on, and the half of the load your wife shouldn't be carrying alone.

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What should I wear to this?

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GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Kidney stones hurt like nothing else, so stop the next one

What renal colic actually feels like, when it's an ER trip, and the boring daily habits that keep a second stone from ever showing up.

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Family6 min read

The family emergency plan your kids can recite half asleep

Phone numbers, two meeting spots, a code word and a drill that takes ninety seconds. Build it Saturday, then run it until the kids find it boring.

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What was your first ever job?

GuideDadsCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Your Kid Doesn't Need A Tour Of Your Work, They Need A Shift

The visitor badge and the donut are a wasted day. Hand them a real task with a real standard, and let them watch somebody correct you.

GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

What a raised ALT on your blood test actually means

Your physical came back with an H next to one liver number. Before you panic or ignore it, know what ALT and AST are really measuring.

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GuideTools & OrganizingDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

How to Pick a Cordless Tool Platform You Won't Regret

You're not buying a drill. You're buying a battery mount you'll live with for a decade, so pick it on purpose and buy in cheap.

Quiz

Is your money actually in order?

Six questions. No email required, no sales pitch at the end.

GuideDadsCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Your kid is being bullied and you've got about a week

A day-by-day plan for the first seven days: what to say, what to write down, what to ask the school for, and when it stops being a school matter.

GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

When your prostate starts running your nights

Three bathroom trips before sunrise isn't aging gracefully. What's actually happening, which pills do what, and how long the procedures cost you.

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Rewrite my CV so it actually gets read

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GuideFoodWes Dunbar23 Sept 20266 min

The pork butt is done when the probe slides, not at 203

Eight pounds, a bone that pulls clean, and the three hours of rest almost nobody builds into the plan.

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GuideDadsCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Write the letters before you get on the plane

Most of what keeps a deployed dad connected to his kids gets built in the two weeks before he leaves, not over a satellite connection at 2am.

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How many days a week are you actually training?

GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

What ibuprofen does to your kidneys on a hot training day

The pill isn't the problem. The pill plus dehydration plus your blood pressure medication is the problem, and almost nobody explains that part.

GuideFoodWes Dunbar23 Sept 20266 min

Start the fire an hour before you want to eat

Flames blacken food and coals cook it, and most people light the wood about forty minutes too late to get any.

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GuideFamilyCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Your in-law problem is usually a marriage problem

Boundaries with her parents or yours work one way: each of you handles your own family, says the specific thing out loud, and then holds it.

Quiz

Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

Five questions, honestly answered, and a plan for the next fortnight.

Fitness6 min

Hepatitis C is curable and the test takes one blood draw

Food5 min

Take the meal in a pan you never want back

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Give me something to do with my kids this weekend

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GuideDadsCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

The Homeschool Dad Job Description Nobody Hands You

You don't have to teach fractions at 10am. But you do have to own a subject, run the discipline, and keep the whole thing from eating your wife alive.

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Fitness6 min read

When depression shows up as anger instead of sadness

It rarely looks like crying. It looks like a short fuse, a flat Saturday, and a guy who says he's fine because he genuinely can't feel anything else.

Poll

Where does your phone charge overnight?

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