This week for our Art and Crafts segment here at Life of Dad we are creating heart shape math puzzles. This is a great hands-on math activity that helps your child with basic addition and subtraction equations. It is not only fun, but educational as well. Materials Needed: Construction paper [...]
This week for our Art and Crafts segment here at Life of Dad we have our last Valentine’s Day craft for this year. We are creating flowers made out of hearts. In our house my daughters and I like to draw flowers. So when I saw this craft at Michael’s [...]
In February we celebrate Heart Awareness month. One of those weeks in that month we recognize and raise awareness for the disease known as Congenital Heart Defect (CHD). I didn’t know too much about the disease until my friend told me his daughter had CHD. Now I am trying to [...]
This week for our Art and Crafts segment here at Life of Dad we are getting ready for Valentine’s Day. We are doing a heart handprint. We all have seen the Thanksgiving turkey handprint, but some of you might not have seen this idea for Valentine’s Day. This idea creates [...]
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 [...]
February 14, 1991...a day we will always remember. "Heart Day" My wife Ellen and I were sitting in the old “Clinic ‘C’” at Riley Hospital for Children in downtown Indianapolis. The room was rather dark and outdated. Mickey Mouse sheets adorned the small bed where Ellen was laying. A [...]
"On the first day of CHD Awareness Week, Sisters by Heart told me...there are 35 different forms of CHDs." "On the second day of CHD Awareness Week, Saving Tiny Hearts told me...they are granting $190,000 towards the research of CHDs!" "On the third day of CHD Awareness Week, [...]
On June 30th, I was honored to emcee the 7th Annual Saving Tiny Hearts Gala in Chicago. The event was held at the Chicago Marriott Downtown, on the Magnificent Mile, and raised $100,000 for this important cause. Saving Tiny Hearts is a great organization that raises money for the grossly [...]
On each of the 30 days leading up to Father's Day, Life of Dad will feature a different incredible father from around the world. Today we meet Trey Flynn. Born Joseph C. Flynn III, Trey says that his parents knew he wouldn't be classy enough to be a "III." Trey [...]
My son, Tucker’s, life began very normally, but that all changed very quickly as he was diagnosed with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome at about 36 hours after birth. But this post isn’t as much about Tucker as it is my wife, Dena. Tucker was our first child and [...]
