Like Riding a Bike
When I was a kid I rode my bike everywhere. I rode to parks, I rode to stores, I rode to church, and sometimes I simply rode my bike for fun. I never measured it, but I put a lot of miles on my bike - before I could drive, [...]
Email in the News: Teaching Your Kids about Online Privacy
“Don’t write it down if you don’t want anyone to find out about it.” It was advice well-meaning adults gave to this writer in junior high, back before SnapChat when the notes we passed were intercepted by our teachers. Sometimes these were innocent, others included inappropriate sketches of teacher's [...]
How Fathers can be a role model for their kids in sports activities
Father’s important role: Fathers play an important part in the upbringing of a child. Their sheer presence in the life of the kids is a blessing. If they take out their time to teach their kids about life and its activities the work is doubled but it could change [...]
8 Life Lessons I Taught My Son and Relearned Myself
Fatherhood has recharged my emotional batteries and made me human again. Something I didn't know I needed until it happened. I've been so obsessed with working hard, counting dollars, being logical and professional---losing sight of the important healthy things we should be doing every day. Lessons I learned as a [...]
FDA Warning: The Side Effects of Parenting
We all know the positive, absolute joyful side of being a parent. But what if parenting came with an FDA Approved warning label, similar for pills, with all the possible side effects you could experience? What would it say? Here's how mine would read... Warning, may cause: silly dancing and [...]
Top 5 reasons to wait that extra year to start your child into kindergarten……………….
Waiting to put your kids into kindergarten could really help them later in life. You don't have to rush them in their preschool education. You are their parent, you know them best. Even if you have to argue with the preschool board, like we did. Or you have reasons [...]
3 easy & teachable parts of an apology………..
Apologies are meant to be sincere, believable, and a way to tell someone you're going to TRY not to do it again. Apologies are also meant to be personal and said from the heart. When you're teaching your children what/when to apologize, teach them my three parts of an apology. [...]
Meconium – what the hell is that?
From the Blog - Holy Meconium - the story of a man who never thought he'd ever be a Dad. Part 1 - Meconium - What the hell is that shit? Meconium is the earliest stool of a mammalian infant. (Wikipedia) Meconium. I hear the word for the first time on waking from a micro [...]
The things this Dad remembers
Bringing you home at 2 days old and sleeping with my hand inside of your cradle for fear that you might stop breathing in the night Changing your diapers, warming bottles and baby food (sorry about that jar of prunes I fed you in one sitting) lessons learned! Watching [...]
No Man’s Sky – An Open Universe to Explore
I can clearly remember being a child, lying in my front yard with my arms crossed behind my head, legs crossed at my ankles, looking up into the sky. The smell of freshly cut grass and the honeysuckle bushes would remind me that it's June. I would do this [...]