The Time Equation

Am I, as a father, giving my son the correct combination of my time and resources to present him the best shot at enjoying a happy and successful future? I find myself wondering about this question often these days. There are obviously many trade offs in raising children.  Arguably one of the most important of these involves how you spend your time.  Time is the most valuable of commodities any individual has at Read More...

The tipping point of the balance of being a Dad

Becoming a father introduced dozen of new tasks in to my life.  I’ll admit that being a dad didn’t come to far after we got married. so I was still adjusting to living with my wife, when we quickly became living with my pregnant wife.  I quickly noticed how my life was completely not my own the day my son was born.  That was the moment that just hit me as I held him in my arms.  Now closing in on tw Read More...

Milk, milk and not a drop to drink

This is the closest image I could find that illustrates the actual mess. I’ve been thinking about change. I remember this one time when my daughter, Sage, was a month or so old. She was fussy, crying and unable to settle in to her normal schedule.  Megan was out and I felt a need to get her to calm down, so I had a grand idea: food. I had a bottle ready, so I fed her. I was under the impression that babies ate Read More...

Sounding off -The media’s perspective of Stay at home parents

Okay, I was just reading through an email I received from HAPO  – Help A Reporter Out.  The email lists numerous stories that reporters are writing and need some input on. It appears to be a great resource. Well today I ran across a story that someone was writing on moms who are leaving the work force to stay home with their children.  This is a great topic because there are a lot of families making the de Read More...

Balance; A Concept That Is Not Easy For Most Dads

I ran across an older post over at 21st Century Dad that brought up some good points on what the challenges are for a dad these days. After reading his post I have to agree that though there are many challenges for a mom… yet as a Dad there are also many challenges that one may or may not think of… I especially can relate to the fact that as a working father in a job that has a demanding schedule… Read More...

Dad, Husband And Dude

One of the quintessential goals of man: balancing work and family life. I purposely stated the title as, "Dad, Husband and Dude", because that is the order in which I feel my life is organized since becoming a family man and I think it may be the same for other dads. The Dad With a preschooler always present and accounted for it’s only natural that my world revolves around him. At this age I am resp Read More...

Adventurous eating out in Portland

Where ever you live there are likely no shortage of places to eat out with kids, but often those places don’t exactly serve the best food for the parents. There are the kids menus/coloring books with the same five options you always find (chicken fingers, mac & Cheese, pizza, burger, and PB&J) and booster seats that may or may not have been cleaned in the last week. Don’t get me wrong I dig thes Read More...

Being a stay-at-home dad in Lansing

I’ve been a stay-at-home dad (SAHD) for exactly 13 months (as of today). While I don’t feel that deserves any sort of special recognition or honor, I do think that being a SAHD here in Lansing, MI, should earn me something. And sorry, your pity isn’t nearly enough. Yet despite the five or six-month long winter, (thank God it’s over & who the hell remembers when it starts any more) and th Read More...

Honey, I’m home!

Most people I know do not really understand what is so hard about my day. Indeed, I am thankful, in many ways, that my daily routine does not entail the strains and rigors that others must endure. I go to work and then come home to a home cooked meal and some playtime with my son before he goes to bed and I settle in to watch some television. Sounds like one of those appliance ads from the 50’s and 60’s where t Read More...

Raffle: Win a Delta Children’s Disney Cars Electronic Game Chair

Disney Cars Upholstered Electronic Game Chair Delta Children’s Products The Delta Disney Cars Upholstered Electronic Game Chair provides everything that a modern child expects in entertainment, comfort, and fantasy play. The child can literally wire themselves into this chair and experience hours of entertainment and joy while sitting safely in comfort. Features: RCA wires for use with all games systems, TVR Read More...

The Revolution Begins from Within

For me, the word revolution has always conjured up images of violent epic battles fought for a noble cause.  Revolutionaries would sacrifice nearly everything to ensure a better future for themselves and generations to follow. As for fatherhood, the revolution really begins from within.  The battle waged is fought in the mind between one's independent self and the father to be.  Stress laden thou Read More...

TechyDad Revolutionary or Today Is a Good Day to Di-aper!

Hey everyone, my name is TechyDad. Who is TechyDad, you might ask? Well, me of course. Do you think I'd be writing about him in the first person if I wasn't he? I'm just your average web developer, science fiction and math nerd, cooking enthusiast, amateur photographer, finder of freeware, ardent advocate of alliteration ala Alton (Brown, that is)…. and also a member of the Dad Revolution. Growing Read More...

The Season is Right for Change

  Seattledad in a teaching moment. Good morning, and welcome to the revolution. The DadRevolution. As I sit here writing this post, I am reflecting back on my Sunday morning. It was a morning spent at Seattle’s Alki beach with my wife and son. The weather was beautiful, the air was crisp, and the people we met were generally in good spirits. It is now Spring in my city after all. It is a time when we here in Read More...

Viva La Revolution – Punch and Pie will be served

Hi I’m Adam Cohen aka DaDa Rocks and I’ll be your cruise director.  I’ve always wanted to write it and think that this will be a good time to introduce the humor that will be inline with the posts I publish on DadRevolution.  The revolution is not just a movement but its also a state of mind. This new mindset is so clearly seen in the eyes of tired new dads, its the idea that I’m over my o Read More...

To Be A Father In The Time Of Revolution

In part of my responsibilities as a member of the Dad Revolution, I will be contributing. Our first post is kind of a ‘get to know you’ defining the relationship kind of post. That said, I have no clue what to write. So I sat down and asked myself some questions because it’s only crazy to talk to yourself if you don’t have some kind of agenda. When I was approached on joining, I was surprised. I’ve be Read More...

Not all revolutions are faught with guns

Hello, I am @TheDADvocate better known as Kevin. My story starts slightly differently from my fellow revolutionaries as it should. I started bloging on April 11, 2009 at  MySpellingSucks.com. Only a few weeks into my new blogging hobby I wrote an article on the seventh aniversary of the loss of our first pregnancy. The article was titled Seven Years and one of my wife’s friends read the article and poin Read More...

Fathers Should Have A Voice in Today’s Society

I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself. My name is Chris, better known as Dad of Divas. As a father I am challenged daily and continually am learning about myself, as well as about patience, remaining calm in all situations and staying strong even through challenging situations. About 2.5 years ago I started my blog (Dad of Divas) to talk about the experiences that I was having as a father as well as provide Read More...

Revolutionaries across borders

It is my unique pleasure to be participating in Dad Revolution from the Caribbean, more specifically, the country of Belize.  You may know me as Squirt’s Dad on Twitter.  I grew up in Southern California but am now living in my home country—where life moves at a slower pace and the people are friendly.  I believe I am the only dad in the roster that is not in the U.S. and perhaps that wil Read More...

The Revolution will not be televised, but it will be tweeted

I remember the first job I ever had mowing the neighbors lawn and cleaning out stables where they kept two horses. I was 10 and the work was hard but the money was great, I was living large getting all the candy and soda I wanted. From about that age on I have worked in one field or another from working the counter at the local Baseball Card shop to working off shore pressure testing welds on oil derricks in the P Read More...

Dad Revolution: A fatherhood manifesto

April 4 of 2009 was all at once the happiest, most exciting and anxiety-producing day of my life. It was the happiest because I got to fall in love instantly with my beautiful daughter Tessa. It was the most exciting because I waited nine months to finally meet her, hold her and tell her how much I love her. It was the most anxiety-producing because now that Tessa was here, I was a father for real now. I was a firs Read More...