Art Eddy and Ryan Hamilton welcome to the show an incomparable dad blogger, David Stanley. David is a teacher, science guy, writer, musician, coach, skier and bike racer. He is a tremendous writer – entertaining, pragmatic, and wise. He blogs about life, death, cancer, sports, nature, science, kids and education…And [...]
A weekly look at father involvement in education through the Watch D.O.G.S. program of the National Center for Fathering. Dads of Great Students is a national program currently operating in 47 states, D.C., Puerto Rico, Mexico and even China. Over 3000 schools utilize the fathers and father figures within their [...]
*If you don’t want to cry, I recommend you don’t read this post right now. I was in rough shape while writing and researching it. *My thoughts and prayers go out to the Trey and Nicole Flynn, their family and friends, and their superhero son Holden who we lost way [...]
If there is only one thing that my father has told me consistently throughout my life is that he wished my brothers and I could have “learned from his mistakes”, which I totally understand. Especially now that I have my own child, I can think of a litany of things [...]
Tim Jordan, author of Sleeping Beauties, Awakened Women. Topic: Understanding and guiding the transformation of adolescent girls Issues: There has been a lot of attention paid to the rising levels of depression, anxiety, cutting, and relationship aggression in girls over the past few decades. But what if those issues aren’t [...]
This week, The Life of Dad Show is dedicating this episode to Holden Flynn. One of Life of Dad’s earliest and greatest supporters, Trey Flynn just lost his son, Holden to Congenital Heart Defects (CHD). Our thoughts and prayers are with this excellent father and his family as we all [...]
I can remember thinking during his third karate class, that this was something that wasn't going to last. He didn't seem overly interested in it and was too scared to do a few of the tasks assigned. They offered 5 free classes and he insisted that he wanted to keep [...]
We had Chris Bernholdt from DadNCharge.com on and discussed bad parenting, stay-at-home dads, Philly Dads Group, and potty training.
Richard Greenberg, author of Raising Children That Other People Like to be Around. Topic: Five common-sense musts from a father’s point of view. Issues: The S-M-A-R-T approach to parenting: Set an example; Make the rules; Apply the rules; Respect Yourself; Teach in all things. Tim Jordan, author of Sleeping Beauties, [...]
Quick holiday show with my son Evan. We talk binging on Siftshow and Netflix, Evan’s remote controlled airplane tragedy, Spelunky, video game presents, my dad’s ‘hacker’ friend, jumping my neighbor’s fence and playing tag as a kid, Evan’s “Jokelopedia” and New Year’s resolutions. Here’s to 2014. Thanks for listening.
