DadRevolution – Page 9 – Many Dads, One Goal: Helping Dads Be the Best They Can Be

Haloween and Parenthood

Parenthood is a fairly new show on NBC, that my wife and I have taken to this season. We like the show for a number of reasons including the fact that they do an excellent job of portraying a family dealing with special needs. On the show one of the families has a child with Autism. They show some of the dynamics between the parents and how they deal with issues raising their child. This past episode they dealt w Read More...

The Value of Friendships & Identifying True Friends

My oldest started school this year and on her first day she came home excited and stated “I made a new friend.” As all of us remember, friends were those people who truly carried us through good and bad times. Unfortunately, there also were those pseudo friends that you thought were your friends, but really had other motives. Since we have moved to our new home we have had to deal with these pseudo friends, Read More...

Fall Leaves: Fun, Memories, and Insight

Yesterday was the first time I have been able to take the children outside to play in a few weeks. It’s either been raining, or too cold. They have been sick and I have been sick, but yesterday afternoon we are all well. The rain had not reached our area at that point and the air and the breeze were on the warm side. After my son’s pouty faced plea, “Daddy, I want to go outside and play in the le Read More...

Competing with the kids for attention

5:30 is anticipated in this house like nothing else. There are other important times in the day that have more weight with the boys like lunch and nap time. When we need to leave for school, or to go back and pick Primo up is another closely watched time but 5:30 is when Beautiful comes home. That is the time that it is no longer me against the kids. I have an advocate, a team mate, a colleague, and they do too. W Read More...

Think Pink

I am on the road for work (or on vacation as my wife would say) and I needed my coffee fix so I ducked into a Caribou Coffee (no I did not get a free latte for mentioning them). My mind was elsewhere as I distractedly ordered coffee and settled down at a corner table to hop on the free wifi so I did not notice how pink my coffee cup was until I took a sip. In the back of my mind I knew this was significant and as I Read More...

Labor of Love

Originally published on CuteMonster.com Over this past weekend, my wife and I threw a party for my two children to celebrate their birthdays. A small army of kids were invited with a seemingly even larger contingent of parents in tow. My wife was wise enough to rent a facility with an open space for the kids to run and play including a giant inflated play castle which allowed our tiny guests to jump inside with r Read More...

Dad Emotion

If one were to go by the standard stereotypes of society, men are supposed to be emotionally closed off. We don’t shed tears (unless our football team wins the Super Bowl), we don’t form attachments and we show as little parental caring as possible. The stereotypes say that emotions are for women and we macho men don’t need ‘em. Of course, if you’ve been paying the slightest bit of atten Read More...

The Presidential Interview

Chris Ballew, front man of the popular alternative rock group The Presidents of the United States of America is not only a talented musician and lyricist, he is also a father. And, given the signature quirky style which he employed to make The Presidents such a huge hit, it doesn’t surprise many people I talk to to find out that he is now also making music targeted specifically towards kids. Over on my Read More...

Being more then just a DAD

As of late I’ve been so consumed with my own life I havent been a good friend to many and really a little bit of a bad son. My Father and I have had a great relationship – yes, my dad was one of those pushy – get yourself a job type Dads. I know that it was all just the concept of unsugar coating life – work equals money, nothing is given freely in this life. The points in my life where Read More...

DADvocate Project

We typically don’t promote our own sites here on Dad Revolution and I’m not about to send you off this site to go visit mine. I am however going to tell you about the DADvocate Project, embed the survey and ask our readers that haven’t yet taken the survery to jump on board and take it. The objective of The DADvocate Project is to better understand today’s dads and help push media to represe Read More...

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned

What is the value of teaching your child the value of money and the value of entrepreneurship at an early age? The picture you see here was a few years ago when my daughter (then at age 3 and ¾) took her first venture into being a saleswoman. At a two-day rummage sale she wanted to sell cookies and kool-aid so we put up the money for the supplies and let her have her shot at making some money. During the first d Read More...

Taking a Step Back: The Beauty of Simply Watching

Today? Yes, today was one of those days. We have all had them. Nothing seems to go right, you can’t seem to get motivated, and all you want to do is go home to your family. That was my day today. I’m not going to go any further on that note. Let’s skip to the fun stuff! I finally got home to the family, and I was ready to unwind. The wife had some things to do, I had to wake Caleb up from his nap Read More...

Is this the real life, or is this just fantasy

Five weeks into the NFL season and my Fantasy Football team is already tanking it to get a high draft pick. I don’t know why I do it every year when I am not that big a fan of football but each Fall bring the promise of glory. The sport I really love is Basket ball and with preseason games in full swing for the NBA and I couldn’t be more excited. I am one of a handful of NBA fans still left in the world Read More...

What’s the secret to single parenthood?

The cursor keeps blinking at me. The rest of this clichéd image includes a half eaten bag of Snyder’s pretzels – the stick kind (gotta love market research). I would get the original shape if deli’s still had them, but I guess I’ll just have to wait for retro pretzel shapes to become fashionable again. On the floor next to me – safe and sound on a coaster – is a room temperature Boylan Seltzer (lemon f Read More...

Lying To Your Children

Originally published on CuteMonster.com My entire life I’ve been told to tell the truth. The noble premise imparting “the truth shall set you free” forever ingrained in my mind. The memorable tale of George Washington admitting his complete guilt in the cherry tree massacre resulting in his personal transformational epiphany that truth holds more power than any lie. All wonderful deeply profound Read More...

Surviving a Social Media Wife

I was happy to write a guest post for Adam because it only takes but a quick look around Dada Rocks! to see that he not only relishes being a father, but also is very plugged into the world of social media. This second quality is one that many men today don’t have. Women largely dominate social media – especially social media related to family and child rearing – and many men are confused and even ange Read More...

Ready, Set, Parent!

With this Sunday being October 10th , 2010, or 10/10/10, I had a special post over on TechyDad.com, titled Plus or Minus 10 Years, where I looked back at my life ten years ago and looked forward at my life ten years from now. Looking forward, I realized that, in a decade, NHL and JSL would be teenagers. We will have to deal with hormones, girls, high school and all the other complications that those thi Read More...

Smiling Eyes: They’re Watching You

It often happens subtly. In most cases, they don’t even know that I am witnessing their reaction. But these small, genuine moments take place nearly every day. These moments, as short as they are, serve as a reinforcement to Mrs. LIAYF and I that this period of time is unfortunately all too fleeting in the grand scheme of our lives. And, that we shouldn’t for one moment take it for granted. Whe Read More...

The Write Words

There’s Hallmark. There’s $H!@! My Dad Says. There are countless tees and bumper stickers and books and whatever else you can find with something witty, poignant or just plain asinine to say. If you’re a dad who has a hard time putting together the right words to say to your wife, or your son or daughter, the right words are out there. Let me caution you, that your actions will ALWAYS speak louder Read More...