Monday was our seventh birthday, so we celebrated as any seven-year-old would, with a bounce house and lots of pizza and melted ice cream. And, since seven years is enough time for most of our … Read More
FoF: Dad Bloggers Are Social Media Singers And Stingers
There’s a sweet spot, somewhere between the selfie stick and a gearshift, where silliness and social media savvy meet. In this rarefied space, wonderful things happen. Earlier this week, our good friends at Kia hosted … Read More
FoF: Celebrating San Antonio with Our Weekend-Only Final Fourtitude Sale
This Friday, of all Fridays, is a remarkable confluence of events that are routinely celebrated with religious fervor: Good Friday, Passover, and Final Four’s Eve. If you’re celebrating Easter on Sunday, He is risen! If … Read More
FoF: Walking Out With the Future
This past Wednesday, students across America participated in walkouts to honor the victims of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, as well as raise their collective voices for new gun laws. The Internet was full … Read More
FoF: Everyone Is Going Through Something
The Dad 2.0 community often emphasizes the importance of men’s mental health, both in this weekly column and at the conference, in the hope that more discussion will permeate where men aren’t supposed to be … Read More
FoF: So Long, and Thanks For All the Crawfish
Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans? Oh, yes we do. Dad 2.018 has come and gone, but the memories and friendships we made in the city that care forgot are still … Read More
FoF: How To Get To New Orleans In 20 Days
For the rest of the year, we fill this Fatherhood On Friday space with current events or interesting topics that invite thoughtful conversation, but this week—and each of the remaining three weeks until Dad 2.018—we’re … Read More
FoF: This year, IT will be the thing AFTER which you will GET.
The new year, for the most part, is a symbolic thing. It heralds another orbit around the sun, complete with wrongly dated checks and frozen everything; the kids are out of school, and your trash … Read More
FoF: Sign of the Times
There are two kinds of people in this sentence: those who want to flee the constant barrage of internet opinion, and those who choose to engage in it (either by cooling off the rhetoric or … Read More
FoF: Every Day Is A Thing
The week after Thanksgiving is the new spirit week: Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday and Wacky Wednesday. We made that last one up. As an added bonus, every day offers opportunities to share (or learn) a new lesson.