I was going to post a story here to share with your kids, but I posted the only kid’s story II have had published that is scary last year…in case you missed that you can find Cat Candles Here: CAT CANDLES If you are in the mood to have someone tell you a story… I …
Continue reading This One is for the Dads … Two storiesOctober 2009
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Since tomorrow is Halloween, and it’s a Saturday, a lot of you will be carving your pumpkins. Please, don’t carve a boring one. We’re Dad-o-matic dads. We don’t carve boring pumpkins. You may think it is difficult to carve a cool pumpkin, but it’s not. Like most things, all you need are the right set …
Continue reading Stop Carving Boring PumpkinsThis is my daughter’s third Halloween. Every year, she is a tiger. She is a tiger because we live in Memphis, TN and the mascot for the University of Memphis is a tiger. You might ask yourself what that has to do with my daughter’s Halloween. We recycle, reuse, and re-purpose the costume for multiple …
Continue reading Recycle, Reuse, and Re-purpose Halloween CostumesOne of the best perks of being a parent is raiding your kids’ Halloween candy when they are asleep. Of course, my daughter is only eleven months old, so I am still in the unenviable position of actually having to buy candy. What a drag. The only thing worse than having to buy your own …
Continue reading The Top 5 Worst Halloween Treats EverLife’s Third Rule by Dad-o-Matic author Joe Hage.
Continue reading Dad’s Life Lessons: Rule #3Kids’ costumes in modern times have gone from sickly sweet to just plain sick. A walk down the dripping, splattered, fake-blood-soaked Halloween aisle of your favorite drugstore proves a point last heard in 2000: Gore wins the popular vote.
When I went online to find my kids costumes, I found life-like swords and machetes, clear masks that filled up with blood, and a variety of disembodied heads and severed limbs. I saw a “zombie doctor” costume with “PVC rotting chest, pants with rotted knee, zombie mask, surgical mask, surgical cap and latex gloves” that came in size 4-6!
Continue reading Why Are So Many Kids Halloween Costumes So Inappropriate?I’ve been traveling a lot. It’s not easy on my family, but they all know that the goal is good enough to support. Today, I had 20 minutes with my boy before jumping in the car to go to yet another event. Here’s what I did with the time: If you can’t see the video …
Continue reading Finding Daddy TimeTimes have certainly changed. My wife and I struggle with how to give our kids the same kind of Halloween we experienced as kids. The Halloween of our childhood has sadly passed us by. Instead, the mall offers trick or treating, we cart the kids around to relatives houses, and we keep some candy in …
Continue reading Trick or Trunk?Image via Wikipedia The adventures of Max and his wild, woolly friends has always been a favorite of mine. The unique visual style of Maurice Sendak‘s images mesmerized me as a child, and again as I frequently read WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE to my own kids, living vicariously through them my own fond memories …
Continue reading Where The Wild Things Are (Or Aren’t)photo credit: mahalie via flickr Hi, my name is Buck and I don’t have parent guilt. I probably should start from the beginning. I travel for my work rarely. I have started going to conferences for blogging and social media. I want to be a better blogger. I have attended a couple locally. I have …
Continue reading Traveling Dad Doesn’t Have Guilt“Words, words, words.” – William Shakespeare (HAMLET) I love words. I love to read and write. I was an English Major in college. Thus, as a word loving self proclaimed gadget geek it should be no surprise that I have been an eBook aficionado for nearly a decade. I started buying and reading eBooks on …
Continue reading The Sony Reader: Black and White and Shades of Dorian GrayThanks to the pandemic spread of Swine Flu, we’re dealing with an especially scary flu season at home and at work. While we’re all familiar with the basics of how to reduce our risks of exposure to germs that lead to getting sick, there are still plenty of things we can do to help make …
Continue reading How to Protect Yourself from Germs at Home and at WorkHalloween is one of the greatest holidays. Like most holidays, it has its share of commercialism, but it doesn’t come with the obligations, guilt, and travel headaches of Christmas. Dressing up. Getting candy. Having fun. What more could a kid ask for? Unfortunately, a small segment of Adultitis-ridden do-gooders continue their assault on Halloween. It’s …
Continue reading The Scariest Part of Halloween: The Grown-Ups!They say a picture is worth a thousand words, yet as my task for this latest installment in the Sony DigiDad Project I am asked to write about a bunch of pictures.  Such is the life of a SonyDad.  They (who the heck are “they” anyway???) also say that the best camera is the camera …
Continue reading 100 Faces of Fall: A CyberShot In The ArmJoe Hage uses Twitter to capture gems like “I don’t like getting punished and I hate it!”
Continue reading Tweet your kids #4Food, glorious food!  To this day that is one of my favorite songs from the musical “OLIVER.” (Ok, that may be “too much information,” but bear with me, please…)  If you watched the video of my parents in a recent post here as part of the Sony DigiDad Project you may have gleaned that food …
Continue reading Spaghetti Pie & Making Dinner Memorable For Your Kids