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 Chris on twitter after some very strong recommendations to do so from my wife who said he was a very devoted dad like our guys on here. So I checked …
Continue reading Please Welcome New Addition to the Dad-O-matic Family: Chris CuomoJune 2009
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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 of children in the United States were potty trained prior to blowing to their first birthday. But that all started to shift in the late 1950s and 1960s when …
Continue reading The Straight Truth About American Potty TrainingEver 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.
Continue reading Tweet Your Kids #3The waiter poured the glass of wine for my son and we raised our glasses to toast… Despite my instinctive fatherly discomfort and concerns, it was a ritual we could not avoid. After all, we were celebrating his 21st birthday… IT’S MORE THAN I CAN BEER… Yesterday, my son Zach turned 21. It is nerve …
Continue reading Drinking With Your ChildrenMy 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 …
Continue reading I am a rock star!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 photo taken from my iPhone.
Continue reading Mobile blogging ageSometimes our urges to help our children succeed can get a little out of hand…
Continue reading It's Only a Matter of TimeThis 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.
Continue reading A Poem for my PapÃÂMy 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 …
Continue reading Nothing Bonds Like Baby AnimalsAll 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 …
Continue reading The Living YearsAs a dad myself, Father’s Day is always a double whammy – I get to honor my own dad, and all he has meant to me, and I get to be honored by my own kids and take some special time with them to reflect on what it means to be a father. We learn …
Continue reading Giving And Receiving On Father’s Day!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 …
Continue reading The gift of a BookGetting 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 …
Continue reading A Technique To Quell CryingOver 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 the right syllables strung together can stick with us for our own personal eternity. In celebration of Father’s Day tomorrow, I thought it would be nice to list a small …
Continue reading A Handful of Father's Day QuotesWe 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 …
Continue reading Online Safety Made Simple with LittleyeSunday 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 promise! 😉 First …
Continue reading Father's Day HomeworkA 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 …
Continue reading The V-Word Part Two: Under the KnifeMy 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 …
Continue reading How to combat the "Damien" influenceIt 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 off our butts and focus on something that will make dear old Dad smile. If you are also a Dad (or Mom) yourself, it will be even easier to put …
Continue reading Photographic Father’s Day Gift TipsSpeaking 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 who tweet, moan and complain about kids and babies on planes; please realize you’re riding public transportation-an air compressed tube in the sky with 100/200 other people-one should …
Continue reading Sorry My Kid Disappoints You On This FlightThis week David Letterman brought shame on Fatherhood. This has nothing to do with with politics, whether you are a supporter or detractor of Sarah Palin, whether you believe that as a public figure her family is also fair game for being the brunt of a humorists attention, David Letterman, as a Father should know …
Continue reading Being A Role Model Is More Important Than Being A CelebrityI 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. I …
Continue reading Recharging and Life BalanceThis 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 …
Continue reading 5 Quick Tips for Potty Training“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.”
Continue reading Wisdom from 1881Smile! 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 right, it is an obligation. Actually, for many it is more than a obligation, it is an obsession! From the moment of our child’s birth we are compelled to capture …
Continue reading Parents or Paparazzi???My son’s eyebrows met in the middle as his upper lip disappeared beneath the lower. “The library?†he asked. His tiny nose scrunched the way it always does when he knows the answer is no. I shook my head. My boy is now on his 264th guess, give or take. “Nope,” I said, “try again.†…
Continue reading Great Guesses and Remarkable MemoryFriday was my middle son’s birthday. He turned 19, so “having a party” was not the concern it once was when he and his siblings were younger. At 19, dinner at a restaurant of his choice with family and a couple of friends was more than sufficient for a Happy Birthday. No balloons, clowns or …
Continue reading A Birthday Party For A Dollar (store)!