Guys need many things to not only survive fatherhood but to succeed in their new as dad. Every dad could probably answer this question differently so we asked our community to list their three essentials for dads. Here’s what we heard (spoiler alert: beer came up...a lot) Douglas Lee [...]
This wasn’t your typical planned vacation. Instead, we were invited to come hang out with some friends at their rental in Boca Grande over Memorial Day weekend. They are avid boaters and fishers, and we’ve failed at getting out on the boat with them for the past couple years [...]
We’ve all heard about Bucket Lists: a catalogue of things we would like to do before we arrive at our Sell-By date. However, I have found that parenting comes with its own unique list… a list I call theUn-bucket List. This list includes things we never thought we would do, [...]
When The Donald announced he was running for president, I laughed. Hell, I think everyone did. The media, late night talk show hosts, foreign leaders… it was a joke. Who would ever vote for a reality TV show host? A male Sarah Palin? A failed businessman who leases his name because [...]
My son turned six in February. He gave me a Christmas present this past Christmas, something he had picked out at the “Santa’s Workshop” at his school. It was wrapped in a pre-printed holiday themed plastic baggie and stapled shut. He had then taken a black Sharpie and written to: [...]
We dare you not to cry a little bit while reading some of the most tender, heartwarming responses we’ve ever received on the Life of Dad Facebook page. Modern fatherhood has never looked so affectionate! Here are the moments when real dads from our community really knew they were a [...]
People say that Dads are hard to please but if you give a deeper thought they need nothing more than family time. So plan something around this concept wherein you can have good family time while maintaining the festivity of the occasion too. Something extravagant or complicated is not what [...]
All it took was one Life of Dad user to ask for help on dealing with a picky-eating toddler, and our community came out in droves to offer tips, tricks and words of encouragement. While there’s always that one parent who’s like, “I dunno man, my kid had loved quinoa, [...]
Great photos that dads didn’t know were being taken.
Millions of words on tens of thousands of blog posts by earnest and frustrated and sentimental and hilarious bloggers have already been spilled about parenting but our community is able to describe the curiously maddening yet glorious job of parenthood in just three words. We are kind of fond of [...]
