It can be so hard to communicate with a teenager. If you have been trying, chances are you have decided it is an exercise in futility. Why is it more like talking to a bear?! Your frustration is natural, but you should keep one thing in mind: your teenager is [...]
Parents have a bit of a bad habit that we can all fall prey to. In our desire to make sure our teenagers succeed and have an incredible life, we can begin to push them a little too hard. When we do, we can fill them with dread, making [...]
Thanks to millions of real dads and moms, the Life of Dad Facebook page has become a haven of humor, support, tips and inspiration for parents the world over. Many dads send us questions looking for help and thankfully, because you guys are so great, they always receive help in [...]
I'm on record as saying, and I'm going to be obnoxious and quite myself now, "if you aren't growing alongside your kid, then you're doing parenting wrong". Being a dad is a learning experience from conception to when they go off to college or move out to get a job, [...]
There's no right or wrong answer to the question 'how many children are the perfect amount of children' but that didn't stop us from asking the dads and moms of our Facebook community if they want to have more, which kinda turned into a thread about how many is the [...]
Life of Dad user Bill Smith needed help. He and his wife were just 6 weeks away from welcoming a son and, well, they didn’t know what to call him. Our tremendous Facebook community came through with hundreds of good, strong boy names, names for boys that could end up [...]
Recently, my oldest daughter informed us that she did not want to change her younger brother's poopy diapers. On the surface, it seemed like a reasonable request. After all, I wanted to avoid changing his diapers too. Then, it hit me. Was she changing his diapers? Who told her that [...]
Oh man, this should be fun! We know that we just become new versions of the people that raised us, looking the same and breaking out the same lines, so we asked the Life of Dad Facebook page, "What is something that your parents said to you that you now [...]
What's the saying, The Devil Is In The Details"? Yeah, that's totally true and the beauty of everyday life, being a dad, and watching your kids grow up is all about the small details too. We dads with older kids know not to overlook the small parts of life, because [...]
What are the dad essentials, those things that every dad needs to be successful at Fatherhood the job? Physical things like baby wipes are nice and so is a metric ton of patience, but we wanted to know what the dads (and moms) of our Facebook community think are the [...]