Dad 2 Summit Returns to Washington, D. C.! Yay! That’s me on the upper left! Speaking again at the Dad 2.0 Summit Conference! I am excited to be headed back to my favorite conference of the year, my sixth in a row, and back in my neck of the woods, our nation’s capital! I still […]
Parenting Stories
Stop Kids From Smoking By Stopping Easy Access To Cigarettes! @TobaccoFreeNYS #SeenEnoughTobacco #IC #AD
Stop Kids From Smoking: This post was sponsored by Tobacco Free New York State as part of an Influencer Activation for Influence Central and all opinions expressed in my post are my own. My whole childhood I received messages about the negative affects of smoking. Blackened lungs, increased risk of cancer, and general bad health […]
Happy Birthday Son! Celebrating Our Son’s Birth Story on His 16th Birthday! #adoption #parenting #family #gayparents
Happy Birthday Son! May 28, 2003 we got the phone call. Something was happening. Be ready she said, I do not think I will make it to my scheduled C-section! We changed our flight and flew to Arizona and drove to the hospital. We met our birth mom for the first time. The next morning […]
Easter & Passover Family Holiday Photos w/Linky!
Easter & Passover
Table Manners: The Social Skills That Get You Through Life! Guest Post From Grace Of @Blessed_Element! #parenting
Table Manners: Table etiquette may include: Which utensil to use. Your bread plate is on your left. Food is passed to the right The proper way to eat soup Behaving with manners at the table includes knowing how to interact with the others eating with you. It is at the table where my children were […]
Happy Birthday! Today I am 60! See My Adult Years in Pictures! w/Linky!
Happy Birthday!
Parenting Playlist: Curated To Help Us All Raise Our Teens! #ParentingPlaylist @parentandteen #Ad
Parenting Playlist They grow up so fast! That infant I adopted at birth is now in 10th grade! A high schooler! And also a teenager. Remember the terrible twos? Now I see those were the easy days! These years are much tougher. Our poor kids have so much more to deal with then we ever […]
School Buses in NYC Will Be Getting GPS This Year! Parents Can Track Their Kids in Realtime! @HereComesTheBus #HereComesTheBus
This is a compensated post on behalf of Here Comes The Bus. The NYC City Council passed a law in January that requires school buses to be equipped with GPS for parents to be able to track their children’s progress, to and from school. The solution needs to be in place by the next school […]
Dove Men+Care is Not Just The Title Sponsor at the #Dad2Summit, They Are Also Incredible Advocates For Dads! @DoveMenCare #PaternityLeavePledge
Dove Men+Care This is the seventh year that Dove Men+Care has been the title sponsor at the Dad 2.0 Summit conference, and they are a huge help to the dad community and this way, and many others. Firstly, they sponsor a full barber shop at the conference where us dads can get pampered! It is […]
College Savings That You Manage Seamlessly With The U-Nest App! @u_nest_future #Ad
College Savings With The U-Nest App! My son was born in 2003 and as new parents, we were not thinking about his future, but instead just about how many diapers we were going to need for the next week! I accidentally stumbled upon information regarding college savings plans the next year, when talking to an […]
Having The Marriage & Fidelity Conversation With Your Kids!
This big gay man believes marriage is a sacred institution. Therefore, I believe it is a subject that must be discussed with our son, as I believe everyone should discuss this with their children. I met Peter on April 12. Four months later, my “friend” did not move in, I did not just get a […]
Pregnant Families Alert! @BigCityMoms Throws The #BiggestBabyShower, And You Need To Attend!
Pregnant Families Alert! I attend the NY edition of the Biggest Baby Shower presented by Big City Moms, as often as possible. This is the premiere event for expecting parents, this is your pregnant families alert! This event is a must for everyone who is pregnant, thinking of having a baby, or a parent. All […]
