About Tommy Riles

Tom Riles is a husband, father, and original founder of Life of Dad, the largest community of dads in the world. Riles is also the long-time audience warm-up comedian for “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” in addition to hundreds of other TV shows in Los Angeles. Riles started the Life of Dad community from a hospital room as his daughter was awaiting open-heart surgery at only three days old. His daughter is now a healthy nine-year old, while Riles and his wife, Lucy (who also started Life of Mom), have helped to raise over $1 Million for congenital heart defect awareness and research.

The Construction of a Mini-Me

Today, I can finally say what I have been waiting to say for over thirty years.   My son has a pancreas!  That’s right, this week, his pancreas starting developing steadily.  Sweet! You see, about twenty-two weeks ago, my wife and I began construction on a son.  The entire project should [...]

By |2011-08-09T06:29:32-07:00August 9th, 2011|Blog|0 Comments

Trees.

Trees. Trees are pretty awesome.  I don’t think adults realize this often enough. Whenever Babs and I go for a walk, she can stare at the trees for hours.  Adults are usually pretty rushed, and don’t have a chance to take in the beauty of trees. Yesterday I tried. Babs [...]

By |2011-08-04T06:55:56-07:00August 4th, 2011|Blog|0 Comments

Press Release: ‘Baby or Daddy’ with Jerry Springer

INFANTS AND FATHERS WORLDWIDE WILL BE COMPARED ON BABY OR DADDY, PREMIERING WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3rd at WWW.LIFEOFDAD.COM Hosted by Tom Riles, and featuring ‘Celebrity Clue Master’ Jerry Springer, Baby or Daddy, answers the universal question... “Who is a bigger baby…A Baby or a Daddy?” LOS ANGELES, August 2nd 2011 -  [...]

By |2011-08-02T07:52:18-07:00August 2nd, 2011|Blog|0 Comments

The Baby Speaks: Two Words at a Time

Babs is really learning how to talk. She can say a handful of words, and even though her "b's" sound like "m's," we still love her. Just this past week, she started putting two words together, as a phrase. This is my dad as a baby. He said "I [...]

By |2011-07-29T14:43:04-07:00July 29th, 2011|Blog|0 Comments

Dude Knocked Up – The Angry Cat

DUDE KNOCKED UP is my attempt to live the life of a pregnant woman until our daughter arrives in December.  Why?  Because I want to prove to men worldwide how difficult it is on their women to build a baby. Women are restricted with the exercises they can do [...]

By |2022-03-29T18:23:50-07:00July 26th, 2011|Blog|0 Comments

Dude Knocked Up – Week 20 – Day 1

Second Trimester - Week 20 - Day 1 Allright, if you haven’t checked out LIFE OF DAD in a while, thanks for coming back.  As you can see, we have gone through some pretty big changes, and much more to come. Here is the biggest change… My wife is pregnant [...]

By |2011-07-25T12:54:37-07:00July 25th, 2011|Blog|0 Comments
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