Specifically the ads that always seem to have dads as mindless meatheads who mean well but can never seem to get anything right when it comes to their family.

Mom is the superhero, dad is the bumbling sidekick.

Lame.

There are, however, some ads that nail the notion of playing up our do gooding nature and sometimes ineffectiveness.

Take the latest series of Huggies ads. They’re real and honest slices of life that perfectly define what it’s like to be a dad.

Honestly, how many times have you had a screaming firehose in your face as you go through your turn on the diaper rotation?

Hilarious because it’s true.

Oh – an aside .. some might say the solution to the firehose is to buy a peepee teepee for your son. I’m including that on the “things people tell you need to buy when you’re having a baby but don’t really need” list that I will post soon.

Fellow DadCAMPer, Akash, is a fan of this one:

Any dad worthy of his neighborhood playground knows he needs. those. shoes.

We love them because they’re true. They are honest slices of life that every dad can relate to. THAT’S what it’s like being a dad.

Thanks Huggies for showing Dads as real, caring and active parents instead of bumbling fools.

No disclosure needed for posting these ads, we’re Pampers people – have tried out Huggies, but they just didnt work well for our boys.

Image: Dad finishes a diaper change by Ajoch on Flickr

Car seat installation manuals are beasts when it comes to navigating the correct way to install a car seat. Goofy drawings that make Ikea manuals easy. Toss in acronyms and long drawn out directions and it’s tougher for a man to get through than one of his wife’s Shopaholic books.

Car seat installation videos, on the other hand, make life easier. I can see it from different angles, they can talk me through it, I can follow along with the manual. I can stop, rewind, watch it again. If they have videos showing us how to put on airplane seatbelts, there needs to be manufacturer videos for car seat installation.

I’m currently reviewing the Safety 1st Air Protect from Dorel. The manual is like any other manual – tough. They have videos on their website touting the seat’s safety, but not for installation.

I believe the manufacturer needs to be more obvious about these videos and include a dvd in the box, or a clear link to a website with a YouTube video showing me someone doing it properly.

4 out of 5 parents don’t know how to correctly install a car seat. 80%. The car seat can be as solid as a brick wall and as light and cushiony as angel wings, but if I don’t install it properly it’s not going to work.

Car seat installation is the most important part of car seat safety.

Here are some useful car seat installation resources:

BCAA’s Traffic Safety Foundation, with ICBC, has developed a comprehensive Child Passenger Safety Program. It includes a Toll-free Child Car Seat information line: 1-877-247-5551 and car seat clinics.

Carseatsite.com has a comprehensive list of car seat installation videos, some of them even for specific manufacturers.

Dorel, the Safety 1st Air Protect manufacturer, partnered with CanadianFamily.ca to create a video about installation basics.

This post is part of a series encompassing Car Seat 101.

[Disclosure: Safety 1st gave us a car seat to keep and review. They are not involved in the editorial related to our review and are not a direct sponsor of DadCAMP.]