In today’s show, we explore the spectrum of our children’s emotions with Julia Simens. As an educator, speaker, author and consultant, Simens has a gold-medal global perspective on children and parenting. Over the last 20 years, she and her family have navigated eight international relocations which has provided her the [...]
My wife and I have never made a big deal about Valentine’s Day. A long time ago we would go out of our way to get each other gifts and romantic cards when we first started dating; but, after 15 years together we decided that we would much rather spend [...]
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 [...]
Some of you parents have experienced this already and others will soon be there. My daughters are now both in school. My oldest is in kindergarten and my youngest is in pre-school. As they make their way through the school year they start to make new friends. They tell me [...]
This week for our Art and Crafts segment here at Life of Dad we continue with our Valentine’s Day theme. We are creating a candy necklace. In our case we bought some Froot Loops to use instead of candy for this craft. This is an easy craft to do with [...]
It had been a while since I had come to terms and wholeheartedly embraced having a daughter and not a son. While I knew that some things would definitely be different, there was no reason why other things couldn’t be the same. I always had high hopes of sitting [...]
February 2nd has always been a very special day for me. The main reason is that my mom was born on that day. She passed away two years ago. Since then not a day has gone by that I have not thought of her. If cancer didn’t take her away [...]
This post might set us dads back a few notches on the ol’ parenting ladder. If it does please forgive me. Some of you dads can relate, while others might chuckle at my incompetence in the area of styling my kids’ hair. As a stay at home dad I feel [...]
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 [...]
Omar Dorsey has been very busy lately. He recently starred in the HBO hit comedy “Eastbound & Down” as the character Dontel Benjamin. You might have also seen Omar in the Quentin Tarantino film “Django Unchained.” Now you can watch Omar on the new FOX show “Rake” alongside Greg Kinnear. [...]
