Episode 35: "Make Her Do Tricks!!!"
Nick and his wife share what it's like to have a 1-year-old, and how other people react to her now. They look back at what other parents hav...
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Kinda Useful
The first podcast by Bruno Pieroni and Nick Yaghmour, Kinda Useful follows Nick's journey into parenthood as a concerned dad-to-be.
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Episode 34: Gradually and Quickly At The Same Time
In this episode, recorded shortly before Nick's daughter turned 1, our hosts save us from a Taco Bell-related tangent, talk about her mobili...
Episode 33: The Smashcake Club
In an episode that's all about food, Nick tells us whether he thinks he's raising a picky eater, tells us whether he's raising his daughter...
Episode 32: Not Pretending to Have All the Answers
In this episode, Nick and his wife talk about how they plan to raise their daughter to deal with her emotions and find answers to questions...
Episode 31: "Amazing and Incredible and Exhausting"
It's nature versus nurture time at Kinda Useful! Nick and his wife try to answer the old-age question, but first they talk about their curre...
Episode 30: Traveling With a Baby
Nick and Bruno are joined by Nick's wife! And wine! This was supposed to be our "how to travel with a baby" episode, and it is — but in Kind...
Episode 29: How to Make Your Child Giggle
Nick talks about his addiction to his daughter's giggles and his strategies to make that happen. Someday she'll sit and listen to him read a...
Episode 28: Everything is Going to Be Fine
After seven months, things are getting easier and more fun for Nick and his daughter. We look back at freaking out about the idea of being r...
Episode 27: You've Come a Long Way, Nick
After a couple of months away from the microphones (taking care of a baby-slash-scheduling stuff is really hard, yo), Nick and Bruno come ba...
Episode 26: Bad Millennials
Nick talks about his daughter's reactions at three and half months old and ends up reflecting on how we document things, from his own childh...
Episode 25: "I Feel Less Like a Parent"
Nick is still grappling with the overnight change that is having a nanny looking after his baby and having a hard time getting used to it. T...
Episode 24: Racked With Guilt
Nick and his wife have found a nanny and goes through the process of trying to find a nanny, interview her, and eventually leaving his daugh...
Episode 23: Your Daughter Didn't Get Into Harvard Because You Didn't Do Enough Tummy Time
Nick, like most Americans, doesn't get much in the way of paternity leave. He looks back at not having had much time off in the first few we...
Episode 22: A Ridiculous Product
Nick tells Bruno about some of the many purchases they made for their daughter now that she's here, and admits to a ridiculous (and expensiv...
Episode 21: Silent Reflux Versus Happy Spitters
After a few weeks of trying to schedule a new episode recording (the guy has been busy), Nick tells Bruno about some bad habits he's picked...
Episode 20: Words Don't Do It Justice
Nick does a play-by-play of the very intense day when his daughter was born, with wasps still on his brain. We follow the different emotions...
Episode 19: The Baby Is Here, Part 2 — Nick's Side of the Story
This is another episode we've been looking forward to for a long time. Remember months ago when Nick found out he was going to be a father s...
Episode 18: The Baby Is Here! And Nick's Wife Tells It All About a "Ridiculous" Day.
THIS IT GUYS, THIS IS THE DAY WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR! Nick's daughter is here and — let's get this out of the way: she's healthy and doing g...
Episode 17: Nick's Wife is Back and So Pregnant
Nick's wife is about to pop and back on the podcast! On this episode, taped as she hit 37 weeks in her pregnancy, she talks about the extra...
Episode 16: "This is Why We Could Never Do This"
After more than one episode when we dove deep into the gender rabbit hole, Nick avoids that conversation this time. He still double-checks t...