Since I went back to working in the corporate world and am no longer working at home raising my daughter, I feel like my mental workload has quadrupled. It seems that I never have enough time and brain power to make a well thought out decision. My regular work day [...]
"I feel some kind of way about Dad's never getting any love on TV or in books. Why is that?" -Me My wife and I were talking the other day and she was sharing some insights from one of the 8,000 books she's reading in preparation for our kid coming. [...]
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 [...]
New songs from Rainbow Beast, Jazzy Ash and Caspar Babypants plus a punk rock goodie from The Boogers and a musical number from Dear Edwina. The Golden Age of Family Music all up in your ears.
With the new year I have decided to launch a new feature called Dadventure2G0. These are posts with a downloadable pdf to serve as a guide/aide to the adventure. If you use them I'd love both feedback and examples of how you used them. So with no further ado I [...]
Since I started blogging a month ago, I have enjoyed minor successes and personal triumphs. I’m sure it’s nothing compared to the more experienced and veteran writers out there, but they are mine and they keep me writing. For the past month I have attempted to immerse myself in [...]
This week I read a blog post written by a mom who is frustrated because she can't bring home-made baked goods into the classroom for her child's birthday. She can't do that because of the school's policy that all party treats of this nature need to be commercially packaged and in [...]
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 [...]
I think it is incredible how the human mind works. Things that happened 24 hours ago I can not recall however I can vividly remember the day my wife and I went to the doctor’s office to find out the gender of our child. It was one of the [...]
