Stan, kids and families' favorite talking canine from Disney Channel's hit comedy series "Dog With A Blog," hosts his very own short-form series "Dogs Rule! Cats…Not So Much” featuring hilarious home videos of cute and cuddly canines and a few clumsy cats. The series of ten shorts, each two [...]
This week for our Art and Crafts segment here at Life of Dad we are celebrating the Olympics. We are going to make gold medals. My kids like to watch a few of the Olympic events like figure skating. So I thought it would be a good idea to make [...]
In this episode, we talk to coder extraordinaire, Ryan E. Hamilton, about his new venture called Daddy Dev, where he teaches his son to code. Inexplicably, we also discuss Olympic Ice Dancing, along with the Dad 2.0 Summit and we fawn over Zach Rosenberg from 8 Bit Dad.
If someone asked you to create the perfect sports weekend, what would some of the key ingredients be to make that experience special? For me, I would say watching the top athletes of that sport compete against each other. You would enjoy great food and even better cocktails. I would [...]
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 [...]
All parents experience messy firsts, whether they are new to being a parent or simply entering a new stage with a child. These adventures—or “bleachable moments”— are those times when all you can do is laugh your way through the mess (and sometimes grab a bottle of Clorox® Regular-Bleach, as [...]
I’ve never thought of myself as a hoarder, yet the other day I found myself staring at the makings of a never to be opened cord museum. Why a cord museum you ask, or why hang onto obsolete stuff? Yes, those are both excellent questions. First lets address the crazy. [...]
Melinda Blau, co-author of Family Whispering. Topic: Communicating and connecting with the people you love and making your whole family stronger. Issues: Shifting from “parent think” to “family think;” the three factors that make each family unique; qualities that inspire cooperation and commitment; sibling rivalry; giving vs. grandstanding; why some [...]
Titus Welliver is starring in one of the first Amazon Studio’s series pilot called “Bosch.” He plays the lead role of a Los Angeles Police Department homicide detective named Harry Bosch. The series is based on Michael Connelly’s best-selling Harry Bosch book series. Welliver is no stranger to being in [...]
If Raymond Chandler wrote books for children, you might mistake Who Pushed Humpty Dumpty? for something penned by him. Instead, David Levinthal and John Nickel, have reinvented Philip Marlowe in the form of a tough talking frog named Officer Binky, who investigates long-running unsolved fairytales and hands out justice. Here’s a small sample: [...]
