The Cast of Dads could not resist getting together to record one last podcast for 2009.  Certainly one of our highlights of the year was [...]

Here’s a list of the most popular posts for 2009. Ironically, even though we’re the number one Daddy Blog with over 80 fathers writing for [...]

My son wants to be a movie director…among other things.  He asked for a green screen setup this year for Christmas, and we got it [...]

As parents we are many things.  At times we are the masters, at times we are the mentors.  We have to be both teacher and [...]

I put this video together yesterday to share with my friend and family. As the Dad-O-matic dads are quickly becoming part of my online family [...]

My son Zane got a tripod for his birthday.  His birthday is actually on Christmas day, but wae celebrate early to keep them separate.  Anyway…he filmed me reading “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” …and we thought we’d share.  Enjoy:
 

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Continuing on my first post here at Dad-O-Matic, I’ve created a blog that will be used for my family to stay in touch with my in-laws during Christmas.

This holiday season, my daughter asked for a plush kitty. My boy asked for anything Thomas. That’s it. Know why? The picture is pretty [...]

WOW! I’m so excited to join the Dad-O-Matic community. I just wanted to introduce myself in my first blog over here. I guess I share [...]

The “Cast of Dads” is back for our last recording before the Christmas Holiday, and it’s a doozy.  Somehow our Holiday chatter leads us from [...]

Distance makes the holidays difficult but technology can help shrink that distance and bring families together.

Are you guilty of buying your spouse or significant other a bad gift?  Over the years I have purchased my wife a salad spinner, stuffed her stocking with Listerine Breath Strips (what the heck was I thinking?) and purchased concert tickets for a show I was much more interested in than she was.
What are your [...]

Have you ever paid close attention to the classic Christmas television program Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer? Rudolph and Hermey are misfits and the misfit toys are marooned on an Arctic island. It seems people with differences are sort of dismissed. But what’s interesting is that the North Pole is actually quite [...]

Disney sent me the above email.  I opened it up and decided to try it out.  I already had registered with their site before (for what I have no idea) then it was just a matter of uploading a recent pic of my daughter and typing in her name.
After you make your own video, there [...]

Thanks to technology, our kids are growing up in an amazing time. Homework assignments that I would have had to use construction paper, crayons and [...]

As Christmas draws near, I thought I’d share some cool, geeky things you might like to share with your children this holiday season. My 4 year old especially likes these. For him as a child that is growing up with on-demand video and the internet, it seems only natural to incorporate some of what Santa does online.

The Cast of Dads got together for our second Podcast and covered a wide range of geeky, fatherly topics.  Daddy Brad was out sick which [...]

I’m in the middle of one of those periods where I look at my daughter, about to turn six, and am amazed. I guess I shouldn’t be. When I was five, I started reading Dr. Seuss books to my grandfather. When Trish was very young, she was reading and speaking two languages. [...]

want to be a full time dad through the thick and thin, through the love and hate, the good times and bad. Don’t mistake me: there will probably be times where I truly will hate my children and question what demon-spawn I have birthed. Sure as I am writing this I have felt that same way for my parents at times. I know that regardless of what issue lies in front of us I will love and adore my children always and hold them above anyone else. That is what my parents do and have done.

You probably have already wondered how a title like this makes any sense. In today’s world it probably doesn’t. Of those five words, there is [...]

I am convinced that all the child development books written by so-called “experts” are designed for the sole purpose of driving you insane.
Even though most [...]

For many years, I’ve seen my two sons only on alternate weekends.  I’ve hated the separation, but somehow that’s the hand life deals; you do [...]

Preface: As a believer in Christ and one who celebrates a traditional American Christmas, this commentary is for readers who also celebrate the traditional American [...]

Movies, bowling, pizza, arcades, museums, concerts, shows, Ice Capades, circuses, Chucky Cheese, Dave & Busters, ice skating, rollerskating, sporting events, shopping, pottery, fairs, carnivals, planetariums, [...]

The movie City Slickers (1991) was a successful comedy starring Billy Crystal but what I loved most about the movie is its many tender moments like the clips I’m sharing here. There are some great life lessons here such as the one thing lesson from Jack Palance or the Best/Worst day stories from Billy and [...]