HSD Blog

Man down! Your kid is bleeding and everyone’s looking at you to fix it. 

If you’ve got kids, then you know this can happen more often than we’d like. And while it might make a good story later on, at that time of emergency, you need to be able to act quickly.

A family trip can be so magical. As you start making plans, you can picture all the special memories you will make. Sometimes, however, the actual travel part can be less than magical. In fact, it can be downright stressful.

So how do you have stress-free travel with kids? We have some simple tips to help you keep the magic in your family trip. 

Packing a lunch for a day out with the kids can be overwhelming but it doesn’t have to be. There are plenty of options for a delicious lunch bag out there. In fact, we are going to share some simple options to add to your lunch bag that won’t add any stress to your day. These tips will work for children of multiple ages and remove some of the worries from lunch on the go.

Congratulations! You have made it through the labor and delivery. Everything so far has led up to this moment and it can feel equally amazing and overwhelming. There are ways to get through these first beautiful sleep-deprived days. We hope you are encouraged by these dad tips for the first hospital stay.

You got her to the hospital. Now the real work starts. You are going to be a new dad soon, but before that, you need to get your shit together and focus. 

So go take your 30 seconds of meditation or splash some cold water on your face because it’s time to be the hand-holding, mental toughness-coaching, confident, stomach of steel champion that you are meant to be. 

Congratulations! Your partner has just informed you that you are going to be a dad. Welcome to pregnancy and all of the ups and downs that come with it! 

There are many different types of dads out there so we’re going to break these dad gift ideas into smaller categories. We hope to help you see gift ideas within a theme or do a full bag with a variety of gifts dads are sure to love. 

You spoke up and we listened! After the success of our Black, Coyote Brown, Ranger Green and Multicam Diaper Bag Backpacks, our newest design is the Snow Camo diaper bag and it’s style goes hand in hand with its functionality.

Sometimes you walk around like a walking zombie. You step on a lego...you try to drink some coffee, but for whatever reason, you are just in a funk. Your sleep cycle is off and you don’t know why. So now that you are a new parent, let’s get your sleep game back up to par!

Tired? Of course you are. You’re a parent. It’s what happens. The “busy” schedule you had before kids looks like a vacation day now. Mornings, in particular, are exhausting to power through, which is why so many of us turn to coffee. But are coffee benefits really a thing?

Just because you’re a new dad, it doesn’t mean that your fitness routine has to be thrown to the side. So when and how often should you workout as a new dad?

Being a working dad is hard, especially if you’re a first-time dad. When you throw in changing dirty diapers with mowing the lawn, changing the oil in your car, and making it to work on time, you end up living in a whirlwind of chaos. When working dads learn how to balance work and family, the benefits spill out into all parts of life. Here are a few tips we’ve put into action that have truly helped us learn how to balance work and family.