Many moons ago, when I was just a mere tike, when my Mom and Dad taught me to “share” they were mostly trying to get me not to explode in a hissy fit when my younger sister or one of my playmates wouldn’t let go of my Legos or give up my G.I. Joe. Life [...]

I don’t talk about my dad too often, actually this is my first post where I’m acknowledging him. Unfortunately he has had sever depression for the last 10 -15 years and he hasn’t dealt with it. Three months ago after my son was born it finally got in the way of our relationship and we are not currently speaking. This hurts me and is not really by my choice but it is what it is and it does not take away from the fact the my father was a great dad while we were growing up. He was a doctor and he was busy, but he was there for us and present when he was with us. I never felt neglected and I loved, and love him very much.

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 [...]

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This is a video interview with Security Expert Ben Halpert. Ben has two daughters and a son [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

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.

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 recently attended a session at PodCamp New Hampshire on “Digital Natives” and realized halfway through the discussion that my children represent the first generation of “Social Natives.” My son Jackson and I thought it would be nice to share an episode of our show “Two Dudes and One Camera” with the Dad-O-Matic community and [...]

As the latest mission for the Sony DigiDad Project, we were loaned a Sony VAIO P Series Lifestyle PC mini laptop and told to go [...]

There is no doubt we live in a digital world. You wouldn’t be reading this blog if we didn’t. As a “Digital Dad” [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Kids of all ages love plans, especially plans made by their parents for them. So, when I told my kids to invite a few friends [...]

In this, Joe Hage’s most important Dad-o-Matic entry to date, Joe introduces you to three young victims of sudden cardiac arrest. Only two lived.

For as long as I can remember, Sony has been a premiere consumer electronics brand.  I can clearly remember getting my hands on the original, [...]

Let me begin by saying I am not Ansel Adams. Most of what I know about photography came from an introductory class I took in [...]

Our children are growing up in an amazing, incredible, awe inspiring age.  It is easy to take for granted the phenomenal, science fiction-esque, fantasy world [...]