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Speedlinking – January 23, 2007

gayla — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:56:56 +0000

Dadventure after spending almost 2 years as a Stay at Home Dad is back to work full time.

Blogging Baby features four Stay at Home Dads as part of the Tuesday routine of tidbits from daddy blogging.

Doug Neal from Christian Dads tells us what the meaning of a father is. “As strange as it may sound, just having a child doesn’t make you a father. Fatherhood is something much deeper and more profound than an adult male hanging around the house doing whatever.”

Dennis understands the ups and downs of naptime. Read his article called The ABC’s of a Toddler’s Nap Schedule…

Elizabeth over at Career and Kids touches on the supposed bill that would require employers to provide their employees with four hours of paid leave every month to go and spend time in their child’s classroom.

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Speedlinking – January 23, 2007

7 Tips for Potential Stay at Home Dads Provided by Dadventure

gayla — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 14:06:11 +0000

Sometimes I spend time in the evening browsing through the archives of other dad blogs. If you look around and spend some time reading through older posts you can find some real good content. Well I did just that over at Dadventure. Some of the posts really hit home for me and I found that some of my older posts are quite similar.

Dadventure, back in October, gave 7 tips for potential Stay at Home Dads. It sort of reminds me of my own attempt at educating those who are seeking out the position. I have 2 articles called 5 Things I Learned Since Staying Home With My Kids and the Top 5 Hardest Things to Deal With as a Stay at Home Dad.

Even though Dadventure and I have similar suggestions and epiphanies, there are some things in his list that are unique, and rightly so, as each situation varies.

So the 7 tips he covers are:

1) Lower Expectations
2) Let Dirty Dishes Lie
3) Routine, Routine, Routine
4) Plan Events for Outside the House
5) Build a Support System
6) Feed Me!
7) Slow Down and Live in the Moment

Click here to go there and read

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7 Tips for Potential Stay at Home Dads Provided by Dadventure

But Dad There Are Monsters Under My Bed

gayla — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 14:33:30 +0000

I remember shortly after we watched (several times) Monsters, Inc. my kids had a surge in fear that monsters were in their closet, under their bed, or in some dark corner of the house. I reassured them that there were no such things as monsters and that it was just a movie. It was the straight forward approach. They seemed to calm down a bit but there were times that we had to take a different approach. We made up silly responses like, humans taste awful to them.

What reminded me of this is over at Dadventure, he lists out a bunch of things he tells his daughter to assure her there aren’t any monsters.

Here are a few he listed out:

- That’s why we painted your bedroom pink. Monsters hate pink.
- Monsters don’t want to eat us. We taste awful.
- When we bought the new house, we told the realtor we wanted to live in a no-monster neighbourhood.
- Monsters won’t come into your bedroom. Monsters are lazy and don’t like climbing stairs.
- Monsters can’t come down chimneys because the people who make chimneys know how to make them to keep monsters out, but let Santa in.

Have your kids expressed any fear for monsters? I know around Halloween time my kids show some fear in ghosts.

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But Dad There Are Monsters Under My Bed