Karl Urban has had many successful roles in film and on television. Most recently, “Star Trek” fans loved his portrayal of Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy in the J.J. Abrams version of the film. Urban has also been in the second and third installments of Peter Jackson's “The Lord of the [...]
LeRoy Butler played strong safety for his entire career with the Green Bay Packers. Known for creating the famous “Lambeau Leap,” Butler still roots for his old team. If you follow him on Twitter you see that he is always giving his perspective during games. Butler won a Super [...]
A weekly look at father involvement in education through the Watch D.O.G.S. program of the National Center for Fathering. This past week, a letter was posted on the Watch D.O.G.S. Facebook page that went semi-viral. Michael Frye of Taylorsville, Kentucky put into words what so many of us feel about [...]
Welcome to the first week of Movember (the month formerly known as November) , This is our first Monday and we realize that some of you might be coming out of a Halloween candy induced coma that has been exasperated by a sudden shift in the fabric of time itself [...]
Phoenix Suns power forward, Channing Frye couldn’t wait for this year’s NBA season to begin. Last year after a preseason physical, Channing found out that he had an enlarged heart. Frye was told he couldn’t play. It was tough news for him to digest, but he didn’t let that slow [...]
This week for our Art and Crafts segment here at Life of Dad we made our last Halloween craft for the year. My daughters wanted to make another Halloween craft before the 31st. We had made plenty of ghosts, pumpkins, and black cats. We wanted to do something different. They [...]
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 [...]
As part of our #Movember campaign this year I asked for stories from the Dad Bloggers Movember team about why we Mo’. I can’t very well ask for them without being willing to share my own. I like to call it “The Value of One More”. When I first became acquainted with Movember I did it because [...]
This week for our Art and Crafts segment here at Life of Dad we created some masquerade masks. My daughters and I got a bunch of materials from a craft store for this project. Since we are getting closer to Halloween I thought that this would be a fun craft [...]
A weekly look at father involvement in education through the Watch D.O.G.S. program of the National Center for Fathering. Dr. Stephen Sroka is an internationally recognized motivational speaker, trainer, author, teacher, professor and consultant. He often presents about at-risk youth, alternative education, reluctant learners, dropout prevention, brain based education, teaching [...]
