A weekly look at father involvement in education through the Watch D.O.G.S. program of the National Center for Fathering. Dads of Great Students is a national program currently operating in 47 states, D.C., Puerto Rico, Mexico and even China. Over 3000 schools utilize the fathers and father figures within their [...]
All parents experience messy firsts, whether they are new to being a parent or simply entering a new stage with a child. These adventures—or “bleachable moments”— are those times when all you can do is laugh your way through the mess (and sometimes grab a bottle of Clorox® Regular-Bleach, as [...]
I’ve never thought of myself as a hoarder, yet the other day I found myself staring at the makings of a never to be opened cord museum. Why a cord museum you ask, or why hang onto obsolete stuff? Yes, those are both excellent questions. First lets address the crazy. [...]
Melinda Blau, co-author of Family Whispering. Topic: Communicating and connecting with the people you love and making your whole family stronger. Issues: Shifting from “parent think” to “family think;” the three factors that make each family unique; qualities that inspire cooperation and commitment; sibling rivalry; giving vs. grandstanding; why some [...]
If Raymond Chandler wrote books for children, you might mistake Who Pushed Humpty Dumpty? for something penned by him. Instead, David Levinthal and John Nickel, have reinvented Philip Marlowe in the form of a tough talking frog named Officer Binky, who investigates long-running unsolved fairytales and hands out justice. Here’s a small sample: [...]
We welcome Scotty Schrier from dadswhochangediapers.com and talk about the changing station maps, being a dad, and Facebook promotion
In today’s show, we explore the spectrum of our children’s emotions with Julia Simens. As an educator, speaker, author and consultant, Simens has a gold-medal global perspective on children and parenting. Over the last 20 years, she and her family have navigated eight international relocations which has provided her the [...]
My wife and I have never made a big deal about Valentine’s Day. A long time ago we would go out of our way to get each other gifts and romantic cards when we first started dating; but, after 15 years together we decided that we would much rather spend [...]
In this DaddyDev lesson, Ryan E. Hamilton teaches the kiddos what exactly HTML tags are and how to view their elemental nature as the "building blocks" of a webpage, but also as "containers" that can hold content. In that sense, most HTML tags are like "stackable containers", which can be [...]
In this DaddyDev lesson, Ryan E. Hamilton teaches the kiddos the elemental building block of HTML — HTML tags! He shows us what HTML tags look like and how to structure most of them by [a] opening them, [b] putting content inside them, and [c] closing them to form HTML [...]