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Articles for dads that celebrate the dadding experience with funny stories, lessons learned, dad hacks, and frameworks to help in your adventures.
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What to Expect When Your Kid Breaks a Bone – Part 4
This is Part 4 in a Series of articles documenting our experience with the first broken bone in our family. In Part 1 my son broke his arm, in Part 2 we had the bone reset at the hospital, and in Part 3 we covered the changes to our daily routine. In this article, I…
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What to Expect When Your Kid Breaks a Bone – Part 3
This is Part 3 in a Series of articles documenting our experience with the first broken bone in our family. In Part 1 my son broke his arm, in Part 2 we had the bone reset at the hospital, and this part we will cover pain management and the changes to our daily routines. Arriving…
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What to Expect When Your Kid Breaks a Bone – Part 2
This is part of a series of articles documenting the experience of how we handled the first broken bone in our family. In part 1 (which you can read here) my son broke his arm at a trampoline park, my wife went to one hospital, then another, and then we waited for the x-ray machine…
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What to Expect When Your Kid Breaks a Bone – Part 1
My son recently broke his arm. The entire experience was surreal. I needed to write about it to capture my observations and lessons learned so I can handle even better in the future. And I’m posting it as a series of articles here so you can benefit from my experience too! My son broke his…
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How to Play the Lizard Tails Game
We invented this game over the summer and it was a hit! The kids love it because it’s a fun, silly game. And the parents love it because it’s a cheap, easy way to get the kids out of the house and burn some energy. Overview: Summary: Lizard Tails is a game like tag. The…
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Our Approach to Video Games in 2026
My wife and I are constantly iterating on our approach to video games for the family. We are always looking for improvement and responding to changes in our life situation. In general, we treat video games like sugar…it’s a fun treat but too much of it can make our kids unhealthy. Here’s our strategy for…
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Have an Ace Up Your Sleeve
Yesterday was a hard day. I was wiped from an event the day before. Work had been rough. School had been busy. My wife was swamped with a hundred little things she was planning. In short, the family was overwhelmed. As it approached dinner time, the kids began asking what we were going to do…
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Golden Bridges
Intro One of the many fascinating discoveries about human nature that I have made while dadding is that kids have a need to keep a little dignity in defeat. We often think about dignity and pride as “adult characteristics”, but it turns out they are “human characteristics” present in all ages. I made this discovery…
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It won’t be perfect, but it will be fun
We have a mantra in our family. It is proclaimed at least once a week in response to busy days. And at the end of every year, it is repeated daily (hourly?) to combat the stress of the frenzied holiday calendar. It gives us strength. It calms us down. It puts everything in perspective. And…
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