Dadventure

When I first started blogging I always vowed I would never write a “sorry for the lack of recent activity” post, but here it is.
For those of you who have followed me for a long time (the blog has been going for close to 5 years), you’ll know that the activity has been way down. [...]

My daughter loves to dance. So does my son. Really, what kid doesn’t? And, for that matter, what adult doesn’t love to dance as well? Uh-huh. Wow, that’s a mighty large number of “negatory good buddy” I am seeing out there.
Why is that? At what point do we lost that absolute need to dance as [...]

A fascinating TED talk from Gever Tulley, who runs a school called the Tinkering School where he let’s second graders play with power tools.
His central thesis is that we are too overprotective and that by allowing kids the freedom to explore will make them safer. So, despite the provocative title, this talk is really about [...]

Just got around to reading some back issues of Dads and Daughters newsletter, and came away a bit stunned by the tidbit that, of all the research studies child psychology researchers have done in the past 8 years, only two percent of them studies published were devoted exclusively to fathers while 45 percent of those [...]

In the absence of the ability for many of us Dad’s to be like Mr B Wijeratne, a Sri Lankan Dad who can breastfeed his children, I thought I would list a few tips on how Dad’s can support Mom’s who breastfeed. Short of doing it ourselves (and apparently with the right conditions we can), [...]