What dads get up to at home when moms aren't around

What do dads get up to when mom isn't home?

Well, loads apparently.

In his YouTube channel How To Dad, Jordan Watson, a father from New Zealand, has been dishing out entertaining "dad hacks" on how to care for young children when left alone with them.

The blogger's video, "How to travel with a baby", demonstrates his favourite travel methods like the "classic dad shoulders" to something as hands-off as the walkie-talkie method - where he hands a walkie-talkie to his toddler and says: "If you get into any trouble, just give me a holler."

His equally badass toddler shouts back: "See ya."

In "How to dress your baby", Mr Watson throws on various hats on his child for different occasions. She got a paper hat for a birthday party and a rocker-style wig for a dress-up party.

Not to be outdone, another father even posted a video of himself tying his daughter's hair with a vacuum cleaner.

Clearly nobody has time for hairbands, right?

You've got to hand it to dads to make the most out of their alone time with their young tykes.

In a recent internet challenge, fathers all over the world have been posting photographs of themselves stacking cheerios on top of their sleeping children.

Titled, "Cheerio Stack Challenge", the game was started by popular Facebook page Life of Dad. The top stacker so far is Facebook user Ryan Mullany, with 16 cheerios stacked, Today.com reported.

Some dads have even upped the ante by stacking cheerios on top of their children while they are awake - no mean feat if you know how restless young children can be.

Of course, let us not forget that at the end of the day, our fathers will always be there to save the day.

There are several video compilations of fathers reacting in the nick of time, saving their children from certain danger.

Just this March, Mr Shaun Cunningham struck out his arm and saved his son from getting smashed in the face by a flying baseball bat.

"I didn't have a whole lot of time to think about it," Mr Cunningham later told US news channel WFTV. "It was dad mode, you know, protecting my son. So I just did what I could.

They are goofy, they might tell bad jokes, but above all - they are still our heroes.

debwong@sph.com.sg