We all take different paths to fatherhood. For some it happens early and unexpected, while others it takes effort and maybe some medical assistance, but no matter how we arrived in this place we all know that specific feeling of becoming a dad for the first time. We recently asked [...]
Best ride we’ve ever seen.
You can read all the pregnancy books at the store and attend all the prenatal classes offered locally but there's so much no one will tell you about becoming a dad. Dad bloggers get a lot closer to the truth and we at Life of Dad try hard to shine [...]
Last summer, the stars aligned to have my family in Denver at the same time as The Avett Brothers' annual 3 night residence at Red Rocks Amphitheater was happening. Ok fine, it wasn't an accident at all. The original Denver dates of our cross country road trip overlapped with, gulp, [...]
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Even while fighting for children’s lives, everyone at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital remembers that celebrations are an important part of recovery. Every Halloween, patients and their siblings wear Halloween costumes as ninjas, superheroes, cartoon characters and a lot of princesses and room the [...]
It started, as things often do on the Life of Dad Facebook page, with a great question from one of our users, in this case, Tim Boyle: "OK so my wife, 14 year-old-daughter, and myself all have different ideas of when she can start dating. My 14-year-old says now, [...]
Sometimes we get trapped inside our own bubble of home life and the echo chamber of our curated Facebook friend list, and we forgot, or at least don’t put front of mind, the troubles, struggles and challenges others are facing. Maybe we can’t physically, emotionally or financial do anything to [...]
I’m not sure why we bothered to ask the dads and moms of our amazing Facebook community what is there never enough of because the answer is Nutella, obviously. But we got hundreds of good answers so let's read through some of the eloquent ones and than quickly switch to [...]
From the dangers of social media to wide open water to drunks behind the wheel to a Saturday morning Caillou marathon, there's a lot out there to scare us dads. We wanted to know what scares dads the most so we asked our amazing Facebook community. Below is just [...]
Sure, they are cute, cuddly, hilarious and say some flat-out adorable things but kids are also brilliant, observant, truth-telling little people. I’ve heard kids throw shade on nonsense that isn’t playful and say some of the smartest things ever. We asked the dads and moms of our Facebook community to [...]
