Words are powerful. Words spoken by a parent to a child are very powerful and often can carry far more weight and impact than we realize, so as parents we should choose our words carefully.  With that in mind, here are:
5 Things You Should Never Say To Your Kids
1) F#&*! – You need only watch prime [...]

It’s a rough life. You need to relax. Massage therapy turns out to be the perfect thing. Now how do you explain it to the children before they overhear about it, talk to their friends, and think you’re doing something dirty.
Farfetched? No. My own late teens son didn’t understand what massage therapy was. My wife [...]

When I was a kid, there was a series of commercials for “Chiffon” margarine that had the tag line, “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature!”  Lately it seems that perhaps we must have been trying to fool her and now Mother Nature is seeking her revenge and proving her prowess with a daunting display [...]

Here’s an excerpt from Katrina Kenison’s wonderful book “The Gift of an Ordinary Day” that totally captures the beauty and power of being a parent, for both moms and dads. I loved what she shared here because it’s something that I realized a long time ago. It isn’t really all the big important events in [...]

It is Valentine’s Day!  Time for everyone to get their heart on!  For us Dads it is one of those days (like birthdays, anniversaries, the day you and your significant other met, etc.) that is best not forgotten.  There are many ways to recognize the day and reveal your romantic side, and like most things [...]

We bought our daughter one of those little primary-colored push car toys for her first birthday. It gets great gas mileage and holds up amazingly well in crashes, of which there have been many so far.
The other day, she got herself caught in a traffic jam. The legs of our counter-height kitchen table and its [...]

I just watched this 88-second spot and it really got thru to me…loud and clear. Thanks to Zane Aveton (aka @zaneology on Twitter) for sharing this tonight. I hope it impacts all of you the same way it has for me. What a powerful reminder.

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Got any tricks to help your kids with homework and test-taking? Joe shares one here.

DADvocate – Internet Discussions from Kevin Metzger on Vimeo.
This is a video interview with Security Expert Ben Halpert. Ben has two daughters and a son [...]

Screaming, shrieking, whining, crying, banging, bumping, laughing, sneezing, coughing, belching. farting, yelling, slapping, hitting, pushing, shoving, snapping, breaking, kicking, throwing up, falling down, dancing, running, [...]

Nesting behavior has always baffled me. So I was more than a little frightened when I returned home from a business trip to find my wife had recovered her car seats and the den furniture in blue fleece and installed matching carpet in both.
“Honey,” I asked cautiously, “do you know something I don’t?”
“We’re having a [...]

No, we didn’t take to the road this week, but we did get our first e-mail question from a listener who happens to be a [...]

When something like the recent horrific earthquake in Haiti occurs, parents of young kids are left with deciding how to talk to them about it.  [...]

Sex… is not what this post is about.  No birds and bees here.  Instead I want to talk about the “other” conversation to have with [...]

We dads know that we’re teaching our children by what we do, not just by what we say. This video brings home that message loud and clear.
Even if our children aren’t around, we should try to stay true to our code of conduct and behave in a way that would make them proud.
Remember this the [...]

Joe Hage writes, “Parents and children, don’t worry if Junior’s grades aren’t up to snuff. His or her success in life won’t depend on them.”

The Cast of Dads are at it again.  Last week I was in Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).  For a few busy [...]

“It’s ten o’clock… do you know where your children are?”  In the days before mobile phones and text messaging, that was a line in a [...]

Little loving reminders can mean a lot to your child. What little extra can you do today?

As one year winds down and another begins it is always a time to look back and look forward, to reflect on the year that [...]

 
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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]