By Tom Burns There are a lot of dads in children’s books and far too many of them feel like characters in a children’s book rather than actual living, breathing dads. Because not all dads are evil kings and not all dads are heroic role models. Most dads fall somewhere [...]
Sometimes we think we know our community and the dad life in general, but then we ask a simple question like, “what kid food do you like to eat” and we realize that most Lunchables don’t even make it into kids' school lunch bags and that the Kraft Mac-n-Cheese in [...]
Amazing parent/child moments can happen anywhere from the beach to the grocery store to the local zoo! We wanted to know about some favorite places dads and moms like to take their kids -- so we asked them! Here's the best of what we heard from the real dads and [...]
To be perfectly honest, we didn’t know what we’d get when we posed this question to our Facebook community. After nearly 600 comments in the “What is one important thing you learned from your dad?” thread, what we discovered is that historically, far too many men have not lived up [...]
If you haven’t arrived at this point in your parenting life yet, you will soon: Your animal-loving child wants a pet. Gulp. Maybe you have the living space, disposable income, temperament, lack-of-allergies and shared desire for a new family member, or maybe not. And that can be a tricky [...]
There are countless books, pundits and so called experts telling new and expecting parents what they should do, say, plan for and fear but we think hearing from actual parents is the best way to gain insight into the life of dad (see what we did there?). Here’s some nuggets [...]
Recently, my wife and daughters were away overnight for a Girl Scout camping trip, leaving me alone at home, they enjoy it a lot and even do some bonfire vancouver as these are great when camping. After cleaning my youngest daughter's room (I can't help it, I'm my mother's [...]
Kids and food is a topic at the heart of the daily parenting struggle for so many. I mean, we can’t feed them PB&J every single day at lunch and mac-n-cheese every night, right? So we recently asked our community, what’s a meal you make that your kid loves. Hopefully, [...]
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