Before I go any further, let me just say that I would never actually let my teenage stepkid float away to Cuba on a boogie board. Ok, now that that’s out of the way, it’s no great secret in our house that my teenage stepkid, Brandon and I don’t [...]
This week for our Art and Crafts segment here at Life of Dad we creating an igloo from cotton balls and construction paper. This is a great craft to do with your toddler. The igloo is simple enough for them to create by themselves. They will feel a sense of [...]
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Originally posted May 6, 2013 on The New American Dad: This past weekend, I had the great pleasure of attending the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) New England conference in Springfield. There were so many great lectures, panels, and workshops that inspired and motivated me as a writer. [...]
The picture of my daughter from the Pediatricians office So if you want to get technical about it, our first trip with Emma to the emergency room was the day she was born. But that was a trip we took for a good reason and neither of [...]
My very first blog post... originally posted March 25, 2013. Thankfully, most of my expectations have come true thus far: This is a question I have been asked a lot lately, ever since I began to share my stay-at-home plans with friends and colleagues. Along with the voices of support, [...]
This is my first blog post here at Life of Dad, and I gotta say, I’m both honored and privileged to be in the company of such awesome and inspiring writers, but more importantly, great Dads. Such an amazing site this is, giving a voice to Dads all over! That [...]
A weekly look at father involvement in education through the Watch D.O.G.S. program of the National Center for Fathering. Hustle University is a self-help organization that focuses on the areas of : Entrepreneurship, Education and Personal Development. We help people “make a way” through life by applying a Hustler’s Mindset [...]
Another baby that looks exactly like me. My wife is pregnant! Yes, we’re excited, and last week we went Facebook official with the pregnancy. Now there is no turning back. This will be our third kid, and if you do some quick math on your fingers, you’ll realize [...]
I took my girls to an early morning storytime at our local library. The storytime was for kids ages two-three. That, in itself makes the journey perilous; that the terrible twos and threes all gathered in one room for twenty minutes of reading, dancing, and playing musical instruments is [...]