It’s hard for me to believe but I just went back through my posts on DAD-o-Matic and saw that I hadn’t talked much about my number one topic and how and why I got into blogging consistently. My oldest daughter.
My oldest daughter Haley has CP, Cerebral Palsy. When I finally decided to start my own [...]

Shortly after the iPad was released Jeff Sass wrote a great blog about iDad. iDad is a great parody on the value of a dad over an iPad and a fun little read. There is another great DAD moment that was captured in a post last night Who Dad published by Doriano “Paisano” Carta. Last [...]

Here’s just a quick comedy break… hilarious stuff

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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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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 [...]

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 [...]

Here’s the next post in my journey – it is in part a response to Jeff Sass’ post
Upfront disclaimer: In this post I compare child raising to dog training.
Also, there is an appearance by the star of the show, Miles!
Here’s the video:

For those parents too busy to watch, here’s the summary:
The other day I was [...]

As an astronaut of consciousness I had to raise my son Miles as a lucid dreamer. I started with no particular agenda or expectations when he was about three and a half. That was three years ago.
Today Miles is a natural. He thinks about and experiences dreaming in a way I’ve never experienced before. For [...]

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 [...]

It is November 15.  Two weeks ago I introduced you to my hairy situation, having decided to grow a moustache this month in support of [...]

Today is November 1, and I just had a close shave.  No, I didn’t avoid an accident.  I actually had a close shave… with a [...]

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 [...]

“Words, words, words.”
- William Shakespeare (HAMLET)

I love words. I love to read and write. I was an English Major in college. Thus, [...]

I shot a 5 and a half minute video of my family vacation at Disneyland in California, or rather, just a bit of the vacation. Here’s the clip:

My thought when I did this was, “video should be fun, simple, and not exactly a complete capture of every moment of the vacation.” We had two [...]

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 [...]

My entire family was blown away by Nelson Mandela’s Favorite African Folktales. I got a copy from the folks at Hachette, and my kids stole it. They wouldn’t let me listen to it by myself. But little did I know, I was going to get to hear it for the next several weeks, every day, [...]

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, [...]

I was sick and I didn’t want to get up. In fact, all I wanted was a little love and a lot of sleep. But the love wasn’t coming. Mary had been self-raised in the school of, “I don’t believe in being sick, so I don’t get sick”. To her, my fever was a choice [...]

Remember Patty Hearst? She was a socialite heiress, captured by the Symbionese Liberation Army, and rapidly brainwashed into becoming a bank robber. What was rarely, if ever, mentioned, is that the techniques used to affect that radical transformation began with her captors establishing themselves in parental roles.
The most important question any of us can ask [...]

This post is for all those parents still swimming through the tar of toilet training. Here are 5 quick tips to help your hurdle the pitfalls of potty training.
1) Make toilet training as comfortable for your toddler as possible. Getting them their own potty chair can be a messy, scary experience for them. Try getting [...]