Tim Bete -- Award-winning parenting humor columnist and author of In The Beginning There Were No Diapers

Tim Bete (pronounced “beet”) is a former newspaper columnist and author of two books, In The Beginning...There Were No Diapers (2005, Sorin Books) and Guide to Pirate Parenting (2007, Cold Tree Press).

Tim's parenting advice has been published in dozens of newspapers, magazines and Web sites, including The Christian Science Monitor, Atlanta Parent, Big Apple Parent, Northwest Family, FathersWorld.com and ParentingHumor.com.

He is married with four children and has 19 combined years as a dad -- 133 in dog years -- which makes him an expert at answering the questions, "Are we there yet?" "Why?" and "What's that smell?"

Formerly the editor of Early Childhood News magazine, Tim has written advertising copy for General Mills, IBM, Rayovac and Worldbook. He is currently the director of the University of Dayton's Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop.

Tim's hobbies include pushing his luck, skating on thin ice and fishing his kids' toys out of the toilet.

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