Posted in Books, father first, parenthacks, pride on Jun 2nd, 2008 Comments Off
I’ve written about the importance of reading dynamically to kids , and about recording their voices for posterity, amusement, and a good old fashioned cry now and then. We read together every night, without fail. Sometimes it feels like it’s taking forever and I want to go veg on American Idol. Sometimes I just want [...]
Posted in adolescence, Bad Dad Chronicles, dancing, Movies, parenthacks on Feb 20th, 2008 No Comments »
Dear children, I love you. I’m proud of you. You bring me joy every single day. But one day, you will become adolescents. There is no way of stopping this process, it is part of life. Knowing this truth to be self-evident and inexorable, I want to make a promise to you here today: If [...]
Posted in father first, ideas, parenthacks, Superheroes on Feb 12th, 2008 No Comments »
That’s right, kids: it’s another amazing installment in the big list of brilliant brainstorms and sensational strategies inspired by the philosophical fuel that keeps the DaddyFactory up and running: Father First. I’ve been lying to my kids. I can’t help it. It started when the WB Network, in all its inglorious wisdom, took Krypto the [...]
Posted in ideas, parenthacks, photography on Feb 11th, 2008 No Comments »
Times Square, 34 stories below, as seen through the eyes (and the lens) of a six-year-old. It never ceases to amaze me, the kinds of images that end up on my hard-drive after Sam has commandeered the digital camera for a while. Sure, he’s racked up the megapixels, but storage is cheap, relative to old [...]
Posted in Family, Fatherhood, moments, parenthacks, showing up on Feb 4th, 2008 1 Comment »
If I can make a kid feel this way, then I’ve done my job. For all the sleeplessness, the heartache and the worry, there are moments when you do something to evoke this look of wonder on your child’s face. Take them on a ride at Disney (as I did here). Treat them to a [...]
Posted in Family, Fatherhood, parenthacks on Jan 20th, 2008 1 Comment »
Just remember how colorful your life has become since the little people came to stay.
Posted in father first, Fatherhood, ideas, parenthacks on Jan 6th, 2008 1 Comment »
Part of the ongoing, online quest for fantastic fatherhood as described through a growing list of (hopefully) clever ideas called: Father First. It doesn’t take much to entertain. And sometimes the simpler ideas and materials yield the better results. Case in point: Look what happens when a six-year-old boy is handed a scarf and a [...]
Posted in Family, Fatherhood, moments, parenthacks, Parenting, sibling rivalry on Dec 22nd, 2007 2 Comments »
They say that necessity is the mother of invention and this photograph proves it. I was going to write a loving post about how my son is learning to read and write — and I still plan to — but before I had a chance he immediately applied his newfound skills to one of his [...]
Posted in Family, father first, Fatherhood, ideas, parenthacks, Parenting on Dec 18th, 2007 3 Comments »
Click this… [audio:http://www.daddyfactory.com/audio/phonemessage1.mp3] If you have kids, you probably find yourself telling humorous or profound stories about what your child said that day or that week. I’ve done it here a hundred times, because even the grandparents are tired of my tales at this point. But the resounding response to most of them is: “You’ve [...]
Posted in Books, Family, Fatherhood, parenthacks, showing up on Dec 15th, 2007 1 Comment »
I recently heard an interview with Dr. Jerome Groopman of Harvard Medical School whose new book, How Doctors Think, attempts to explain, among other things, why doctors misdiagnose patients somewhere between 15 and 25 percent of the time. Part of the reason? Doctors interrupt their patients, on average, within the first 18 seconds of a [...]
