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.

Father Knows Best?

I'll  begin this story with the end. The cop, while shaking his head, told me, “Now that you’ve brought a child into this world, you have to start acting responsibly.” What did I do you ask?  Why was a cop in Anaheim lecturing me?  Did I punch Mickey [...]

By |2010-08-04T14:28:55-07:00August 4th, 2010|Blog|6 Comments

Dinner for Schnooks

"So you're telling me her middle and last name are the same as mine?" Babs’ grandfather calls her Schnooks.  Babs had dinner with her great-grandmother this weekend.  Steve Carell’s new movie, “Dinner for Schmucks” had a nice opening at the box office, so I had not choice but [...]

By |2021-11-22T12:12:08-08:00August 2nd, 2010|Blog|4 Comments

Play Ball

Baseball has been my favorite sport and hobby since the age of six, when my New York Mets won the World Series.  As I started to grow older, I thought about how cool it would be to take my kid to a baseball game someday.  This happened last Friday.  New [...]

By |2010-07-29T14:07:03-07:00July 29th, 2010|Blog|6 Comments

Drool it Forward

                                                                                                             I drool.  I don’t drool¹ an extreme amount, but after waking up in the morning, there may be some drool on my pillow.  Unless I hook up a dentist saliva vacuum² to me at night (not in the plans), I think I’ll always drool a little bit. Most babies [...]

By |2010-07-27T13:58:58-07:00July 27th, 2010|Blog|2 Comments

Saving Tiny Hearts Fundraiser

Hello Friends! Let me introduce myself...My name is Tom Riles, and my wife Lucy and I have a beautiful 5 month old daughter, Barbara Anne. Barbara had open heart surgery at three days old, at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. As the video below shows, I am starting a monthly fundraiser here [...]

By |2026-04-15T15:10:49-07:00July 25th, 2010|Blog|2 Comments

Male Breastfeeding Part I

As you all know, the third week in July is always Male Breastfeeding Awareness week.  In honor of this week, I will be posting three different videos over the week featuring male breastfeeding.  It can be a controversial topic...where do you stand on male breastfeeding? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uBgBm5-nFo]

By |2010-07-20T13:30:30-07:00July 20th, 2010|Video|0 Comments

Scoot

Our baby can scoot.  What is scooting you ask?  Combine elbow and knee power, add a little momentum, and you have a scoot.  Babs is a scooter.  Why is this a big deal?  Well, it is now a fact that our baby may not be in the same place where we [...]

By |2010-07-14T16:05:55-07:00July 14th, 2010|Blog|2 Comments
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