Ronald Levant, author of Masculinity Reconstructed and editor of Psychology of Men and Masculinity. Topic: The changing definition and expectations of fatherhood at work, in relationships, and in family life. Issues: How has fatherhood changed over the past 30-40 years? The many “new” types of fathers: single, never married same [...]
Eric Franklin, author of Peanut Butter Principles. Topic: Leadership lessons every parent should teach his or her kids Issues: Building the internal skill set of self-confidence, self-awareness, self-esteem, and self-control; the importance of setting, pursuing, and achieving goals; fundamental wisdom that will smooth out the bumpy journey; learning how to [...]
Fatherhood in America is in crisis. The absence of fathers in America and globally has reached epidemic levels.
Solo show! Just me on the mic all alone this week. I jump all over the place and discuss how I got over my anxiety/panic at speaking in front of people, working the baseball snack stand, my son putting weird things in his mouth, I went to an filthy daycare, [...]
Art Eddy and Ryan Hamilton talk about Ryan’s trip with Life of Dad Co-founder David Guest to the Working Families Summit: A Fatherhood Lead-Up Event at The White House. Ryan tells Art about his amazing experience at the summit. The guys then bring Al Watts and Hogan Hilling to discuss [...]
Blooming onions, beat-up red Jeeps, and baseball lineups are all part of our conversation with father and son Bill and Willie Geist, TV personalities and authors of the new book, Good Talk Dad: The Birds and the Bees…and Other Conversations We Forgot to Have. We also talk about the challenges of [...]
In this episode, Shaun and Josh welcome Cahal Dunne, the famous Irish singer to talk about his book, parenting and to share some great stories. We also talk about the sad Slenderman thing, urban legends in general, a recall and we tackle religion and politics as well as talk about [...]
The Watch D.O.G.S. (Dads of Great Students) Program is the largest school based father engagement program in the nation with over 4000 schools participating. Today’s WatchDOGS Radio Program: Privilege vs Punishment. Greg Strong will discuss the difference between privilege and punishment in the educational environment. There are two ways we [...]
Jennifer Senior, author of All Joy and No Fun. Topic: The paradox of modern parenthood. Issues: How children compromise the autonomy parents have grown accustomed to; how children affect parental decision making, division of labor, and can strain a marriage; the true fun in having children is just sitting back, [...]
This week on the Life of Dad Show Art Eddy has Patrick Quinn come and co-host the show to talk about his work with Sears for the #DestinationDad campaign going on at Life of Dad. They talk summer plans and how IKEA helped him out with his kids. They also [...]