The mainstream media still loves to go full on, exclamation point freakout anytime a dad is photographed doing anything ‘outside the norm’. Combing his daughter’s hair? AAHH, BEST. DAD. EVER! Changing a diaper? HE’S SUPERMAN! Making dinner? HE’S A KEEPER, LADIES! Wearing matches capes out in public? DADS ARE [...]
I was in Minnesota when it happened. I don’t remember the joke I told, I just remember the response. In a sold out room of 200, 199 people laughed and applauded. When the din receded, however, one lone woman shouted out her disapproval: “That wasn’t funny!” I rolled my eyes. You can’t [...]
Refrigerators were always there for me and I like it though I sometimes took the preservation of refrigerated perishables for granted. I never really had to think about their functionality, and never cared to learn much about freon (it’s a registered trademark, by the way). That changed when I [...]
Ysa Penarejo is a gifted actress best known for starring in the Netflix hit show Project Mc2. The Emmy-nominated show follows a group of four extremely intelligent girls who join a secret spy organization called NOV8. Renewed for a second and third season, Ysa will reprise her role as Camryn Coyle, [...]
Real things our kids said…we just wrote them out as texts. What is the funniest thing your kid has ever said?
Being a parent means always being ready for a new surprise. Sometimes those surprises are found in your baby's diaper but other times they comes when your child mows the lawn or tells you how much they love you at bedtime. We recently asked our Life of Dad community what [...]
Hello, and welcome to a (so far) untitled blog! I am new to blogging, but not as new to being a dad. Websites like Life of Dad have given me a way to connect with other dads from around the world and that has been a lot of fun. [...]
Driving home from church yesterday, my wife asked me if I had heard of the Pokémon Go game. Um . . . no. I really had no clue what she was walking about, except that there was a Pokémon cartoon at one time. You see, I’m not a gamer, not [...]
Dads know how to balance many things.
Inspiration comes in many forms. Maybe it was your grandfather or maybe a chapter of a memoir you read, but for many of the dads in our Facebook community fatherly inspiration can be found on the big and small screen. Here are just some of the TV and movie dads [...]
