We are proud to announce a new member of the Dad-O-matic team, none other than Good Morning, America’s anchorman, Chris Cuomo! I first ran across [...]
The Straight Truth About American Potty Training
Before parents were able to easily acquire disposable diapers in any warehouse store across the country, the vast majority [...]
Ever think ‘I should write that down’ when your child says something funny? Joe Hage uses Twitter for that. Click here for his third installment.
I use Twitter for that. Here’re some Tweet-worthy comments from my boys.
The waiter poured the glass of wine for my son and we raised our glasses to toast… Despite my instinctive fatherly discomfort and concerns, [...]
My wife and I work somewhat separate schedules. I work a typical 9-5 schedule while she works part time at a hospital. That means I spend some time watching our three boys by myself. When the kids get all spun up and I start to get frustrated we need to find something to calm us [...]
Ciao! I’m just testing the WordPress app for the iPhone to see how it publishes blog posts from here.
I’m also going to attach a [...]
Sometimes our urges to help our children succeed can get a little out of hand…
This week marks the one year anniversary of my grandfather’s death. At 99 years old he lived the most remarkable life of anyone I’ve ever known.
My daughter Katie and I recently discovered a website I thought worth sharing. Heck, you don’t even NEED kids for this site, it’s cute and guaranteed to make you smile. ZOOBORNS is a site where they post pictures of baby animals born in zoos and wildlife preserves around the world. There are some oddball critters [...]
All of us dads at Dad-O-matic (over 80 strong and growing!) want to wish everyone a Happy Father’s Day! Obviously, this is an important day for us because we strive to be the ultimate voice for dads and their families.
This day always makes me think of my dad who passed away rather young while I [...]
As a dad myself, Father’s Day is always a double whammy – I get to honor my own dad, and all he has meant to [...]
As advertisers climb over one another to suggest Father’s Day gifts, it is wise to consider Emily Dickenson’s poem, A Book.
There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a page
Of prancing poetry.
This traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of toll;
How frugal is the chariot
That bears a human soul!
The gift [...]
Getting Distracted
Earlier tonight, I set out to write a blog here for Dad-O-Matic with a suggestion for how to handle a crying child and found myself writing about distractions in the context of life. Ironic how that happened, being distracted by my own inspiration to write! Anyway, upon finishing that up and posting on my [...]
Over at my primary online home, I have the tagline that “Life’s better when you have the right words.” I truly believe this. I think [...]
We all worry about our kids and how they use the Internet. Thanks to a safety filter application called littleye, however, a lot of our worries and fears are now taken care of.
Put together by a community of parents and teachers, littleye takes the concept of existing online safety filters on step further.
The very fact [...]
Sunday is Father’s Day. It may seem a bit rude for me, a mommy, to ask you guys to self-reflect (god forbid), but I know you can handle it. Dad-o-Matic Dads aren’t afraid of a little reality check now-and-then, right?
Don’t worry, the self-reflection homework doesn’t come until the end. Painless, I [...]
A few weeks ago I pulled into the shady, almost cozy looking parking lot of a building that would forever change my life. From the outside it was a charming, cottage-like building, but inside was a well prepared surgery, perfect for a vasectomy!
I walked in and, like at all Doctor’s offices, I had to fill [...]
My son lives with his mother, and every weekend I take the two-hour-roundtrip train ride to pick him up and drop him off. I don’t own a car since I live around public transit, so the commuter rail it is.
The ride is a good time to catch up with E when I first pick him [...]
It is one week from Father’s Day! Do you know where your gift is? It’s time for procrastinating sons and daughters to unite and get [...]
Speaking for those who have children and have to deal with this, you’re not alone…
The Commercial Airline Industry is a Public Industry
Hey arrogant business folk [...]
This week David Letterman brought shame on Fatherhood. This has nothing to do with with politics, whether you are a supporter or detractor of Sarah [...]
I travel a lot lately, and one thing I’m asked quite often is how I recharge or how I maintain my life balance. Let me start by saying that I haven’t really figured out a great balance for my life, but I can say that I am doing lots to keep it all juggled. [...]
This post is for all those parents still swimming through the tar of toilet training. Here are 5 quick tips to help your hurdle the pitfalls of potty training.
1) Make toilet training as comfortable for your toddler as possible. Getting them their own potty chair can be a messy, scary experience for them. Try getting [...]
“If wisdom’s ways you wisely seek, five things observe with care: To whom you speak; of whom you speak; and how, and when and where.”
Smile! You’re on not-so-candid camera! As parents it is our god given right to document the lives of our children. It is more than a [...]
