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Here’s What No One Tells You About Being a Dad
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 [...]
Cool Concerts in Exotic Places
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, [...]
The Best Way To Celebrate Halloween With Kids
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 [...]
Dads Get Real About Teen Dating
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, [...]
The Challenges Dads Are Facing Right 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 [...]
There’s Never Enough Of…
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 [...]
This is What Scares Dads The Most
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 [...]
Kids Say The Smartest Things
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 [...]
If You Could Give Your Child Anything What Would It Be
Every one of us parents has that one thing we hope our children learns, inherits from us or accomplishes in life. We recently asked the moms and dads of our Facebook community to tell us the one thing they would like to give to their child. No limits, no dream [...]