Thursday June 15, 2017, Life of Dad is presenting a Twitter Chat with @Cheerios! We are big fans of stacking Cheerios on our children (and sometimes our significant others) while they sleep. Last year we got so good at it that even the President of the United States got in on the action [...]
I like Adam Carolla because I have low self-esteem. No, wait. Shit. That came out wrong. I relate to Adam Carolla because I see myself in him: white-trash childhood, two kids via in vitro fertilization, slinging jokes to cover insecurities… you know, shared traits. I like Adam Carolla because he’s hilarious, and fearless. He’s [...]
A kid who bites when she doesn't get junk food?! Yikes! One of our fellow dads has a problem and he came to the Life of Dad Facebook community for guidance. As usual, you guys didn't disappoint. https://www.facebook.com/lifeofdad/posts/10155181987366427 Jonathan Neal: Remove the junk food from your home and it will [...]
This Friday Nintendo is coming out with a really new and innovative game for the Switch called Arms. Parents you might see that it looks like a futuristic fighting game, but it is way more than that. My daughters and I had the very cool opportunity to preview the game. [...]
My teen and tween daughters are just about to put a bow on ten months of early morning instrument rehearsals, after school honor society meetings, cumbersome class projects and nightly homework assignments. It's been a good year, one that bore witness to tremendous growth inside and out of school, but [...]
As fathers we want to leave our children with a legacy that they can be proud of. A dad looks to pass on what he as learned in life and share it with his kids. We hope that our kids take what we have taught them and be positive examples [...]
I work from home which is simultaneously amazing and mind numbingly claustrophobic. Obviously the benefits outweigh the downsides by a landslide. I have an 18’ commute to my office. Showers are absurdly optional and I conduct (probably?) too many conference calls in my underwear. Just kidding. There can never [...]
There are a lot of big budget, well-reviewed movies for dads to take their kids to see this summer, including Wonder Woman but my teen and tween can't stop talking about the November release of Wonder, starring, among other bigger Hollywood names, Daveed Diggs from the original Hamilton Broadway cast. [...]
People will know Dan Haseltine as the singer and songwriter in the band Jars of Clay, but Dan has being doing work with another “band.” He and is bandmates alongside activist Jena Lee Nardella created an organization called Blood:Water. Blood:Water is an equipping agency that partners with African grassroots [...]
In Descendants 2 the villain kids are back and the stakes are even higher in the highly anticipated sequel to the Disney Channel Original Movie “Descendants”! The story deepens in the music-driven sequel to the global smash hit "Descendants," as the teenage sons and daughters of Disney's most infamous villains try to find their [...]