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Week in Review

Every Friday, I will be giving my what I learned this week (or I would like to think I learned). This week was an interesting one… We just finished up moving, and my son (who is 2) was, oh, so much help. Moving with a young child is such a huge undertaking at times; and, if you’re not organized, it …

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Tough Dad, Soft Dad

It is hard for us older first-time Dads to try to not be super-tough-guy Dad, like we had. The old-school thinking, of “showing too much affection means a soft kid”. I just have a hard time believing that kind of thinking. I hug and kiss my son as often as I can, but is it too much? Can we make …

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Hello world – a beginning

Well, I am a new Dad (or will perpetually feel that way). Like a lot of you, I feel super unprepared and afraid of messing my child up, in ways that will require years of therapy for them. I have this fear daily, but as of yet I have not lost or injured him in any noticeable way. This site …

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