Parents have a bit of a bad habit that we can all fall prey to. In our desire to make sure our teenagers succeed and have an incredible life, we can begin to push them a little too hard. When we do, we can fill them with dread, making [...]
Thanks to millions of real dads and moms, the Life of Dad Facebook page has become a haven of humor, support, tips and inspiration for parents the world over. Many dads send us questions looking for help and thankfully, because you guys are so great, they always receive help in [...]
Ever notice how your child (or in my case, little girl) runs to mommy every chance they get? It hurts and trust me, I know. I use to get so upset that she only wanted mom that I started to be kind of rude to my wife. It started to [...]
One of our goals here at Life of Dad is to be a safe place for dads to get help, advice, a laugh, support, ideas, and/or aspirations, and it's times like this, when a single dad asked for tips on introducing the new woman in his life to his child, [...]
I could post pictures of all the expensive presents and all the crap I own but the most precious thing I had this Christmas was time with this little beaut.
It’s almost that time of year, when we each decide what we need to quit; smoking, cursing, farting in public, hookers (wait, what?). That’s what most New Year’s resolutions are, right? Things we gotta stop doing? But if you really can't quit smoking, you can try out the Medical [...]
I'm on record as saying, and I'm going to be obnoxious and quite myself now, "if you aren't growing alongside your kid, then you're doing parenting wrong". Being a dad is a learning experience from conception to when they go off to college or move out to get a job, [...]
Matt Stillwell grew up in North Carolina. During college, Stillwell played baseball at Western Carolina University where he was an All-Conference player on the Catamount’s Southern Conference Championship Baseball teams. Baseball turned into music and Stillwell has since been traveling across the country in his custom wrapped Budweiser bus headlining [...]
As a parent, one of the most common concerns that I struggle with on a daily basis is making sure that my children are safe on the road. Although my kids are now teenagers, they are prone to making mistakes or getting distracted when they spend time behind the wheel. [...]
There's no right or wrong answer to the question 'how many children are the perfect amount of children' but that didn't stop us from asking the dads and moms of our Facebook community if they want to have more, which kinda turned into a thread about how many is the [...]