Captain’s Log. Daddy Chronicles. Diaper Date 1698. It was standardized test week in the Captain’s neighborhood. In honor of the week the Captain has helped to develop the first ever standardized test for dads. We shall call it the Daddy Aptitude Test Evaluation, or D.A.T.E. for short. Get your pencils [...]
If you follow sports and specifically football you know about the news of Junior Seau committing suicide, by shooting himself in the chest, not before texting his ex-wife and kids saying "I Love You." I've been watching football since I was around 7 or 8 years old, I also [...]
Yesterday I came home from the university around three o’clock in the afternoon. April said she would be home after class around one thirty. I unlocked the door to our apartment with one hand, rolled my bike into the apartment with the other, and after a flutter of helmet, [...]
Tommy Riles and Art Eddy discuss the advent of “Dad-chelor Parties” with Life of Dad co-founder, David Guest. Find out how Tom and David created the concept, shooting the videos, the feature on ABC Nightline, etc. Then join special guest panelists, Dan Kunka and Dan Lazarz.
We sent our son away last week… All he’s been doing is laying around, drinking, and sleeping. He’s been up late every night, and then when he finally passes out, he’s still up every few hours dinking again. If he doesn’t get what he wants, he just starts crying. It [...]
Except for my mother, I grew up in a house full of dudes, even the pets. With two brothers and a steady roster of dogs, that's a lot of sticks and berries. So naturally the younger dudes and I learned only the necessary life skills – meat eating, yard mowing, [...]
Yeah, I know, Hate is a strong word. We are taught as children that it is a word that we are never to use, along with fat, ugly and stupid. Well, I don’t care about all that now because I have to tell you sincerely, from the bottom of [...]
John Fabris is the Deputy Editor of the Orange County (California) Register. His April 6, 2012 article entitled, "Dad's top 20 tips for taking kids to a Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim baseball game" are tips any Dad can use this summer when taking their kids to experience America's pastime, [...]
My daughter is currently a sponge. Anything I can say, she can say worse. She tries, but it just doesn’t always come out right, because she’s only two. However, every now and then, she annunciates a new word perfectly, and today was one of those days. Our family of five [...]
Call it the perfect lining of the solar system. One of those “New Moon” type nights or whatever. My wife and I were lucky enough to score some pretty solid seats to yesterday's Tom Petty show. With that, we encountered a small problem. One of our past babysitters (my mom) [...]
