Wouldn’t it be great if you could just make some of your own problems disappear? One minute it’s there, relentlessly bugging you; consistently hovering on your periphery. And the next moment, POOF - it’s just gone - disintegrated in the ether. It could be something big and heavy. A problem [...]
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 [...]
A bunch of years ago I was a teacher in Brooklyn, NY. I taught Special Education, Science and English to what can universally be seen as the worst age range of kids to have to teach anything... Middle schoolers. Oh man. The noises, smells, awkwardness, hormones and testing of [...]
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 [...]
The Life of Dad Facebook community continues to inspire us as dads and this thread is one of the huge reasons why. When when dad is struggling to come to terms with the fact that his daughter may need medication for her anxiety, hundreds come to offer him words [...]
I lead two lives. One as a dad to two great girls, and the other as some guy. It's a weird time to be a single dad. I went into marriage in the mid-2000s. Sure, there was the Internet, but all you could really do was check sports scores, [...]
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 [...]
Happy? Batman? A wicked combination of the two? Dads have a lot of ideas on what they would like their kids to be when they grow up so we asked 'em! Below is just a sample of the emotional traits and careers dads want their kids to possess. https://www.facebook.com/lifeofdad/posts/10154890353551427 Mark [...]
Because EVERYTHING is controversial and political these days, here's a Valentine's Day post to argue about on the internet! Yay! We kid, kind of, because while we may see this sweet mid-February as a fake holiday and choose not celebrate we should still be able to respect the will [...]
Every dad knows that it can be difficult to get his kid to pay attention so we asked our incredible Life of Dad Facebook community to give us their tips and tricks. Here's the no fail plan to always get your kid's attention! https://www.facebook.com/lifeofdad/posts/10154814394251427 Tristan Welch: My kids are both [...]
