A Quick Tip for Expecting Daddies
When your baby is born you will likely be housebound for a while. That means that you’ll be home to help your wife and tend to your wee one. This is awesome, sure you’ll be pretty sleep deprived, but it’s still awesome. There’s nothing better than gently hugging on your son or daughter, and on [...]
Parents.com and Kidzui Form Healthy Alliance for Parents and Kids
Great news today for parents and their children that enjoy playing online. Parents.com and KidZui.com have formed a partnership to enhance the KidZui experience and bring more families to the kid-friendly site.
For those of you that aren’t familiar with KidZui yet, it’s geared for kids ages 3-12 and provides a free browser and online service [...]
Why can’t my Father get farther online?
I was helping my father to get online just a few days ago - I helped him buy a wireless USB adaptor, so that he could share his neighbour’s wireless wi-fi signal (with her full permission, I should say).
However, I’d forgotten just how much of a pain it was to install a new device. [...]
Ward Cleaver Did Us Wrong
I’m going to admit it right here, right now: I am not a Super Dad. You know the guys, the ones that no matter what event you go to, they are there with their kids, only they probably got there a little earlier, and are undoubtedly better prepared. Deep down you wonder how they manage [...]
The Real “L” Word
Calm down fellas, this is not going to be an expose about your favorite Showtime series. This is going to be a quick look at a four letter word that parents and kids should make themselves comfortable with and use much more frequently.
NOT ALL FOUR LETTER WORDS ARE BAD
The late, great George Carlin was a [...]
I Want Benedryl Back
Reading this post about how it’s a Federal offense to buy too much cold medicine has me bummed out. You see, this impacts things like Benedryl, which we’ve been permitted by our doctor to give to my daughter from time to time when she can’t sleep. She often has a racing mind and can’t [...]
Dad’s Life Lessons On The Wall
This is a blogpost about a beautiful way to enrich your child’s life by Dad-o-Matic author Joe Hage.
Find out more about Joe at http://joehageonline.com.
The First Birthday Party
OK…so my daughter is 11.5 months…which means her first birthday party is days away. I don’t remember my first birthday party, but if the pictures of that event tell a story, it is that it was a simple affair. My family and my parent’s neighbors were there. There was a cake and there was candles. And [...]
Halloween Costumes for Kids
It’s that time of year again, when parents have to avoid drug stores and Wal-Mart as often as possible, if only to get away from multiple requests for a second costume, or another set of make-up, or a third pumpkin carving kit. It’s also the time of year when we look at costumes that are [...]
This Woman’s Work (She’s Having a Baby)
She’s Having a Baby is another one of those underrated comedies that touches you in ways that you never forget. John Hughes broke free from his high school brat pack mold (Breakfast Club, 16 Candles, Pretty in Pink, etc.) and totally captures the amazing experiences of marriage and parenthood in this wonderful movie. It includes [...]
Fears Of A New Father
My son was born a little over three years ago now. He surprises me daily with a new word, phrase or expression that makes me laugh. Friday at dinner, I was annoyed we were out of ketchup. He cocked his head to one side and said, “It’s okay, Daddy … you’ll live.”
Fatherhood has grown on [...]
Autism, Recognizing The Signs
Before I get to the point(s) of this post I figure I ought to introduce myself. My name is Dave Brodbeck, I live in Sault Ste. Marie, ON Canada where I work as a professor of psychology at Algoma University (go Thunderbirds!) Much more importantly, I have an awesome family, I am married and I [...]
Father and Son
The song “Father & Son” by Cat Stevens has become increasingly poignant and powerfully meaningful to me as I raise my three children. They continue to grow up faster than I want them to but what can you do about it? All I can do if try to be the best example I can be [...]
Today’s Video Games are Yesterday’s Movies?
Great segment on NPR this morning about how as the U.S. financial system implodes around us, Americans could be turning to video games to take their mind off their troubles, much the same way that we turned to $0.05 movies during the great depression. While movie tickets sold have been flat for about the last [...]
We Love DadLabs
I’m sitting across from Paul Kontonis from For Your Imagination and I wanted to plug Dad-o-Matic, but Paul is cooler than me, so he shows me DadLabs instead. Turns out he’s got over 200 videos already on the site by dads for dads. It’s really great to look at, and I highly recommend checking [...]
Gay Adoptions
Gay parenting is getting a lot of ink this week.
First, new dad Clay Aiken was on the cover of People Magazine with his new son Parker, next to the headline, “Yes, I’m gay.”
Today, the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, a non-partisangroup dedicated to improving adoption practices nationwide, released a study that concluded that gay and [...]
Scrapbooking For Dads
Scrapbooking is one of those hobbies that have been around for decades, but like most niches it has become increasingly popular thanks to desktop publishing, digital cameras and the internet as a whole. My wife Patty and I know of several people who are involved in this hobby, but we are not one of them. [...]
Hey - She’s Not 22!
I spend a lot of time online. Working at an interactive agency, part of my job is staying up on the latest online trends which includes having accounts at several social media, community and networking websites. Recently, I inadvertently came across the profile of someone I knew, my niece, and I was surprised to find [...]
Children’s Television Doesn’t Have To Suck
I can safely say that it’s not easy being forced to watch children’s programming. Many of the programs are too slow and repetitive, like the ones that have long pauses to wait for your kids to do as their told. Or the shows feature grown ups who dance around like they’re all hopped up on, [...]
Sleep, Sleep & NO SLEEP…
There is nothing more shocking in a man’s life then to be slammed into baby reality with a screaming mini you. Since the birth of my little girl (Sylvia June) two weeks ago, I had an idea what I would be getting into when she would be home. I knew it was going to be [...]
The BUXX Stops Here!
In this age of financial crisis and mega billion banking bailouts, it hardly seems worthwhile to be concerned with $ 5, $10 or $20 a week. However, if you are a kid, and that 5, 10 or 20 bucks is your allowance, you are allowed to be concerned. More importantly, if you are the proud [...]
Glubble, a New and Safe Way for Your Kids to Play Online
Recently I came across a site called Glubble. Glubble is a FREE parental control system for the FireFox browser that once installed you can have complete control over your kids online browsing experience.
The system is geared for children up to the age of elementary school and may (in my opinion) be pushing it for 5th [...]
Find a Place to Play
Playspace Finder is a resource that mashes on top of Google Maps and gives parents a place to mark down a playground, notate what’s there, provide pictures, ratings, reviews and more. It’s a really great idea (and by great, I mean “simple”).
I did a quick scan of some areas around my house, and [...]
When Should Kids Have Cell Phones
Saw this post by Julie Bonner, where she talks about her daughter getting a cell phone before the age of 11. Now, some of you just raised an eyebrow. You’re wondering if that’s a bit early for a ten year old to own a cell phone. I’m going to say that it’s not, from [...]
Using technology to communicate with your teen
I have 4 sons. Oldest just got married this summer and is living in Florida with his new wife. They will be coming home next mouth so he can defend his Masters project and be done with that. One of our other sons is in his last year of nursing school and [...]
