Ah, that first week. The no sleep, the weird sounds, the jet black poop. Here are real dads talking about what to expect during the first week of fatherhood, straight from the Life of Dad Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/lifeofdad/posts/10155501586576427 Scott Shill: Expect nothing. Just take it as it comes. Everyone's experience [...]
Sometimes it is easy to spot a dad because everyone knows you are officially a dad when you got this or that. Could be a constant stain on your shirt, sand-crusted beach toys in your garage, or a puddle of crumbs on the floor of your car. We asked our [...]
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 [...]
Our Life of Dad Facebook community has been growing by leaps and bounds over the past few years (thank you for that!!), with thousands of actively involved dads joining up and sending us photos of them with their kids; laughing, playing, snuggling and generally being awesome together. Here are seven [...]
My girls were pushed out 12 and 9 years ago. I don’t know if ‘push presents’ were a thing back then but they seem very much like a thing now. Many dads-to-be may be completely lost in the non-existent push present aisle of the imaginary push present store so [...]
Everyone has a story as to how they came to their child’s name. We asked our community how they chose the name for their baby and what we got back was far more than just advice for how to pick a baby name, we heard detailed origin stories that captured [...]
Becoming a dad for the first time is one of the most terrifyingly exciting moments of a man’s life. From the moment a guy announces the news, he starts getting peppered with well-meaning but often atrocious pieces of advice. The real dads in our Facebook community have something way [...]
We dare you not to cry a little bit while reading some of the most tender, heartwarming responses we’ve ever received on the Life of Dad Facebook page. Modern fatherhood has never looked so affectionate! Here are the moments when real dads from our community really knew they were a [...]
There are countless books, pundits and so called experts telling new and expecting parents what they should do, say, plan for and fear but we think hearing from actual parents is the best way to gain insight into the life of dad (see what we did there?). Here’s some nuggets [...]
For nearly a decade now, I’ve been telling anyone who’d listen (which, admittedly, isn’t many) that Bill Harley’s The Town Around The Bend CD is the greatest thing in a parent’s bedtime arsenal once that parent is the parent of a toddler. My oldest daughter fell asleep to that curiously [...]
