Tommy Riles and Art Eddy talk about what they learned from their dads, the birds and bees talks, and they welcome Bill and Willie Geist onto the show. On May 20th Bill and Willie Geist shared their story on fatherhood and family in an outstanding read called “Good Talk Dad: [...]
Art Eddy and Ryan Hamilton bring on dad blogger and stay at home dad extraordinaire Chris Bernholdt. You can check him out at his blog called DadNCharge. He is also the blog editor for the National At-Home Dad Network. His writing has appeared on The Good Men Project, CNN iReport, [...]
Dads (and friends) Al Watts, Jason Greene, and Lorne Jaffe join us to talk about the upcoming book, Dads Behaving Dadly – 67 Truths, Tears and Triumphs of Modern Fatherhood, featuring stories from dads of all stripes candidly describing their successes and failures as parents. We also check in on [...]
The Watch D.O.G.S. (Dads of Great Students) Program is the largest school based father engagement program in the nation with nearly 4000 schools participating. Each week, WatchDOGS Radio host Keith Schumacher and co-host Chris Danenhauer discuss how this program is impacting families and schools across our nation and in three [...]
Shimi Kang, author of The Dolphin Way. Topic: Raising healthy, happy, motivated kids without turning into a tiger. Issues: What happens to kids raised by Tiger parents? the skills required to succeed in the 21st Century–and how Dolphin parenting encourages their development; The importance of play and downtime; what happens [...]
Quanyu Huang, author of The Hybrid Tiger. Topic: Secrets of the extraordinary success of Asian-American Kids. Issues: The differences between Chinese and American education; the advantages and disadvantages of both approaches; is it possible to say that one is better than the other> developing kids’ ambitions before discovering their interests. [...]
The job vs. life conflict we all face seems overwhelming and never ending. It doesn’t have to be that way.
This is episode thirteen and a half because apparently 13 is an unlucky number. Today we talk to screenwriter, blogger at thedaddycomplex.com and soon to be author of the CTFD Parenting Method book, David Vienna. We get in to his thoughts on creativity, why he thought puppets would be a [...]
My lovely mom, Diane, joins the show for a belated Mother’s Day special. We talk about her and my dad being intimate, me seeing her naked as a teenager, the awful way she dressed me as a kid, getting drunk on vacation, my mom’s crazy union job, when I got [...]
Take a close look at your child’s class picture. If there’s 25 cute, smiling faces in that group, statistically about seven of those kids are being raised by single parents. Maybe more depending on where you live. Of the 30-40 million homes in the United States with children under the age of [...]