LIAR.  It is a four letter word that can be far more hurtful than other familiar expletives. This is especially true when the liar in [...]

“…You can’t be too careful.”
These were the words of a somewhat strident middle-aged lady at Dungeekin Minor’s ‘football’ training session on Saturday, as she vocally [...]

An apple a day… gives the media lots to talk about.  This week both the tech news and so called “mainstream media” was all abuzz [...]

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, [...]

I wrote here a while back about how my two boys, Zach and Zane, came to live with us permanently at the end of November. [...]

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 [...]

My favorite show on TV these days is without question MAD MEN which has won best drama Emmy for its first two seasons. I love [...]

Well, we did it. My wife and I made it to the one-year mark. (Oh, and so did Lucy.) The first two weeks seemed like [...]

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 [...]

Over the holidays I was watching ESPN while helping my wife clean the house and two stories came on back to back the first was [...]

“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 [...]

Another year is over and a new one is beginning. This is often a time for setting goals and many people sit down to do [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]