Archive for September 2009

Meet Gwen Thompson: The $95 Homeless American Girl Doll

Sep 28th, 2009 | By adamkeats
Meet Gwen Thompson: The $95 Homeless American Girl Doll

One of the differentiators between the American Girl dolls and others has always been their stories.  The dolls, from Kaya the Native American to Rebecca [...]

Making Media on Vacation

Sep 28th, 2009 | By chrisbrogan

I shot a 5 and a half minute video of my family vacation at Disneyland in California, or rather, just a bit of the vacation. Here’s the clip:

My thought when I did this was, “video should be fun, simple, and not exactly a complete capture of every moment of the vacation.” We had two [...]

From BARBIE to BLACKBERRY!

Sep 27th, 2009 | By Jeff Sass

Image via Wikipedia

(NOTE: The following article first appeared last September on my personal blog, Sassholes! It was this post about my daughter’s 17th birthday that [...]

Shots and Superheroes

Sep 25th, 2009 | By Jason of Kim & Jason

We went to the doctor the other day for my daughter Lucy’s nine-month checkup. It included a smorgasbord of shots.
And I got to hold her [...]

Dolly Parton the BOOK LADY!

Sep 24th, 2009 | By Dave Delaney

When most people think of Dolly Parton they think of her flash Country persona, her anatomy (sorry, but it’s true), her starring in Nine to [...]

A Family Defined (In High Definition)

Sep 20th, 2009 | By Jeff Sass
A Family Defined (In High Definition)

Heritage is a powerful word. In its truest sense it implies all the things we are made of and all the things that make us [...]

Matriarchs, Patriarchs, And The Grandest Of All Parents…

Sep 15th, 2009 | By Jeff Sass
Matriarchs, Patriarchs, And The Grandest Of All Parents…

From everything I have seen and heard, being a grandparent is a special thrill.  I am not there yet myself, but as my own kids [...]

National GrandParents Day!

Sep 14th, 2009 | By Doriano "Paisano" Carta
National GrandParents Day!

Sunday was National GrandParents Day. It was started in 1978 so this little known holiday has been around for over 30 years. Even though we’re [...]

Explaining 9/11 to my son

Sep 11th, 2009 | By Benjamin Strong

I have never written about my experiences on September 11th.  At the time I was working for the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the Urban [...]

7 Secrets to Raising a Happy Child

Sep 9th, 2009 | By writerdad

Nature and nurture are in a never ending battle to claim the disposition of our children. While it’s true that the apple rarely tumbles too far from the tree, it is also true that there are a multitude of things we as parents can do to safeguard the childhoods of our children, limit their exposure [...]

7 Ways Fantasy Football Can Make You a Better Dad

Sep 8th, 2009 | By Jason of Kim & Jason
7 Ways Fantasy Football Can Make You a Better Dad

Summer is winding down, the kids are back in school, and the long, bleak, football hiatus is almost over. If you’re a fantasy football nut, [...]

President Obama’s speech to our children … so what’s the controversy all about?

Sep 7th, 2009 | By Joe Hage
President Obama’s speech to our children … so what’s the controversy all about?

The circumstances of your life … how much money you have, what you’ve got going on at home … That’s no excuse for not trying.

Family Secrets Don’t Have To Embarrass You!

Sep 7th, 2009 | By Jeff Sass

Everyone has family secrets…things that all the relatives know, but are better left unsaid outside the family circle. The worse family secrets are the ones [...]

My Little Girl Builds Rockets…

Sep 3rd, 2009 | By David Niall Wilson
My Little Girl Builds Rockets…

I’ve always held onto my boyhood dreams of rocket jet packs and flying cars.  I read the old pulp magazines when I could, devoured paperbacks [...]

What Blogging Can Teach Us About Parenthood

Sep 2nd, 2009 | By Danny Brown
What Blogging Can Teach Us About Parenthood

Being a parent is no easy trick. There’s no guidebook or instruction manual (okay, there are plenty on sale, but you can bet none are [...]

Winners of the “I’m a Bus” Give-away

Sep 1st, 2009 | By admin
Winners of the “I’m a Bus” Give-away

The winners of the “I’m a Bus” give-away that was announced in the Buck Daddy book review on 8/10/2009 are as follows:

Susan
Mayer

Debbie
Howell

Christina
Smith

Heather
Gude

Susan Mayer is the [...]

Let Them Be Little

Sep 1st, 2009 | By Doriano "Paisano" Carta

As parents, one of our jobs is to prepare our children for the future so we do our best to teach them how to be [...]