In a world that moves way too fast, I have intentionally tried to make our home a safe and nurturing space. We have our fair share of chaos, don’t get me wrong. If you homeschool your kids and are a married couple working from home like my wife and [...]
If you have kids, there are some things you are guaranteed to say before they reach Kindergarten and the list is extensive... Things like: Don’t put that in your nose. Why does the food get everywhere BUT in his mouth? I didn’t realize I could love someone this much. How [...]
Potty training sometimes stinks, literally and figuratively. Like most phases of a growing child, we made it through potty training with several triumphs and victories along the way. Goodbye diapers, goodbye fear of leaving the house, things were going to be much easier here on out. Right? Nope, wrong. What [...]
Disclosure: This post is in collaboration with the DIYZ® app. All opinions of apps and companies that help me complete DIY projects are my own. I’ve always kinda felt like the Clark Griswold of home repairs. I’ve never really been that good at fixing things around the house. I [...]
Children tend to have a vivid imagination. They always bubble with new ideas and thoughts; however, at the same time, some of them do have troubles capturing those ideas on paper. It isn’t surprising, actually: while writing can be an interesting subject, it doesn’t always seem like that to [...]
Over the past few days I have attended a couple of professional development workshops through work that dealt with developing resilience and leadership. I’ve recently become interested in questions around resilience as I ponder how to help my kids to be resilient children who grow into even more resilient adults. [...]
There's no right or wrong answer to the question 'how many children are the perfect amount of children' but that didn't stop us from asking the dads and moms of our Facebook community if they want to have more, which kinda turned into a thread about how many is the [...]
Your Lordship, Have you ever been in a relationship where it didn’t work out and thought… ‘I don’t know how it lasted that long’ or ‘I knew it wasn’t going to work’ Maybe you both grew into different people, maybe there was a sudden change in personality or maybe [...]
Hi All! New to LOD online, I've followed the page for a while on Facebook. I've been looking for somewhere where the dad's are at! There's not else much out there, so I'm so grateful that I've across this. Hopefully I can find time (in a very busy day and [...]
Every one of us parents has that one thing we hope our children learns, inherits from us or accomplishes in life. We recently asked the moms and dads of our Facebook community to tell us the one thing they would like to give to their child. No limits, no dream [...]
