We all take different paths to fatherhood. For some it happens early and unexpected, while others it takes effort and maybe some medical assistance, but no matter how we arrived in this place we all know that specific feeling of becoming a dad for the first time. We recently asked [...]
You can read all the pregnancy books at the store and attend all the prenatal classes offered locally but there's so much no one will tell you about becoming a dad. Dad bloggers get a lot closer to the truth and we at Life of Dad try hard to shine [...]
It’s not that we don’t always know it, but when we read your responses to questions like, “what’s one thing that every dad needs”, we really understand just how much we love the moms and dads of our Facebook community. Your answers here make us laugh, think, cry and [...]
Hi there dads. My name is Martin, I'm 26 and I must say I am very happy I have joined the network of active dads. I've been thinking about it for a while now and I finnally got myself around it and did it, so here I am. Soon, I am [...]
The one thing we learned from asking the question "What's the best part of your day as a parent" on the Life of Dad Facebook page is the same thing we learned from a very cheesy song many years ago, "reunited and it feels so good!" I'll be honest, I [...]
A young man might think he's got it all sorted; life, work, happiness, love, but then he becomes a dad and he realizes that there are so many more lessons left to learn. We recently asked the dads of our Facebook community to tell us what fatherhood has taught them. [...]
This was a timely question we posed to our Life of Dad Facebook community because right now, my two kids have managed to lose the remote to the big flatscreen TV which renders it a 2-ton brick stuck to the wall in the family room. Kids are losing stuff all [...]
The soundtrack to fatherhood is far more than just your favorite songs, it’s a collection of tunes that speak to the experience of being a dad, whether through on-the-nose lyrics, a spot-in title, or a deep emotional connection to a child and/or childhood. We recently asked our amazing Life of [...]
While the great Mike Reynolds of EveryGirlDad (pictured above) is our dad tat tattoo hero because of his daughter’s drawings being permanently affixed to his body, he’s far from the only dad getting tattoos to show off his love for his kids. Find the best tattoo supplies San Diego here. [...]
The mainstream media still loves to go full on, exclamation point freakout anytime a dad is photographed doing anything ‘outside the norm’. Combing his daughter’s hair? AAHH, BEST. DAD. EVER! Changing a diaper? HE’S SUPERMAN! Making dinner? HE’S A KEEPER, LADIES! Wearing matches capes out in public? DADS ARE [...]
