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Learning to Untie Knots
As my wife pulled the hose around from the faucet to the walkway, the coils intertwined in front of me and formed a perfect sheepshank knot. She looked back at the tangle in frustration. Without a word, I calmly reached down and pulled free the one critical loop, releasing the knot and allowing her to continue pulling the hose around.
2May2010 | Jeremy | 4 comments | Continued
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How to Deal with Getting Fired
Life is full of challenges, and parents teach their kids a lot by how they deal with adversity. Here is one Dad’s story about How to Deal with Getting Fired: I work in marketing and advertising. This means I get fired. A lot. Unfortunately, being laid off comes with the territory in this career field. Over the years, I’ve read many books on transitioning, job-seeking, interviewing and networking, but I have yet to come across any literature that deals with how to gracefully deal with getting canned.
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Servant Leadership and Fatherhood
Implementing the 5 Ways of Being to my role as a father has both challenged and enhanced the relationship I have with my kids. At times, it would be easier to abandon these principles in favor of an easier path, perhaps something along the lines of Bill Cosby’s comedic assertion that “parents just want peace!” The problem is peace through pacification or power rarely works, whereas taking the time to apply the 5 Ways of Being through love and accountability always produces a better result in the end.
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What’s Cooking Dad?
While it may seem like more work to have your kids helping to prepare a meal, and it often is – particularly when they’re little – in the end you’ll benefit from having a helper, someone who will be self-sufficient, and who might even cook dinner for you once in awhile.
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5 Ways to Prepare Your Kids for a New Sibling
Last April my wife and I received an unexpected reality check: We were pregnant. Again. I’ll be honest with you, it took us a few weeks to warm up to the idea of a third child. We were happy with the two children, and the even numbers made it easy for my wife and I to divide and conquer when it came to bed time and other parental routines.
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Favorite Summer Pictures
Summer is my absolute favorite time of year. I love the heat and sunshine – it always puts me in a good mood. I even like the humidity, which my wife thinks is crazy! I like doing things outside, especially with the kids. Going to the park, playing ball and watching my son drench himself with the hose while “helping” wash the car.
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Founding Fathers and Their Families
On July 4, 1776, the birth of a great nation was signified by the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The Fourth of July has always been a favorite holiday for me. I remember anxiously anticipating fire works displays and patriotic parades, but most importantly I remember spending time together as a family celebrating life in the greatest country on Earth.
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Making Friends Like a Man
Have you ever noticed how easy it is for many women to make friends of other women? Most seem to be innately tuned into the social steps necessary to establish and maintain relationships. Men on the other hand, not so much.
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Fitness for Dads – The “S” Factors: Three Reasons You May Not Be Burning Fat
Your weight workouts are intense and you’re getting better and better with each passing session. Your interval training sessions leave you dripping with sweat and out of breath. Your diet is tight and you’re eating all the fruit, vegetables, protein & healthy fats that’s allowed. Your a health conscious dad setting a good example for your family. But, when you look in the mirror, you still have that annoying little extra ring around your belly that, no matter what you do, you still can’t lose.
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The Pressure of Being a Good Husband and Dad
I’m almost thirty-seven. I’m a man, and I’m a husband and father. I find myself thinking very frequently what these things mean, not only in my own life but also in life in general. It makes me think about things like pressure, responsibility and duty.
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How to have “The Talk”
It’s getting close to that time. You know the one I’m talking about. It’s the one every parent dreads on some level. One day you wake up and realize your first little baby is grown up and without warning, the impending doom of The Talk is upon you.
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Fitness for Dads: Dad, What’s for Dinner?
It’s 5pm. You’re still at work, but tonight you’re supposed to make dinner. The last thing you want to do is order pizza because that’s what you did last night and you can’t bear to ask your wife to cook again this week because TONIGHT is the only night you’re responsible to feed the family. It also happens to be the day that your meeting ran through lunch so you couldn’t pop down to the gym for your workout.
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Discovering Dad Reflections on 2008
Happy New Year everyone! Sorry it’s been a while since my last post, but my work and family has needed me to focus on them over the past month. I hope you had an awesome holiday season and are looking forward to a great 2009! I’m confident 2009 will be a year of positive change.
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Avoiding Chaotic Meals
By the time I’ve finished working all day and have battled through evening rush hour traffic, the last thing I want to deal with at home is more chaos. It’s taken a long time, but my wife and I have come up with some ways that work well for our family to make dinner time a little bit more relaxed and less anxious.
21Nov2008 | Jeremy | 8 comments | ContinuedOn FriendFeed, this post was liked by 0 people and commented on 0 times show
Fitness for Dads – Fixing Your Posture
We stand in line at the ATM, or while talking to the other dads at our kid’s soccer game or when we’re sitting at our desk in the office. No matter where we are, our posture is terrible!
Posture is one of those things that, if not paid any attention to, can really start to affect our health later on in life. Poor posture can be attributed mainly to what we do everyday and living what I like to call an “anterior dominant” life.
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15 Fun Activities for Dads with Preschoolers
Little kids can get majorly bored. My four-year-old son Michael, when he gets bored (and that’s every night), hops around like a jackrabbit with its tail on fire, bouncing off of this bit of furniture and that, twirling and spinning, knocking over whatever might be in his path. It’s not a pretty sight.
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