Spend more time with your child than you do with your phone. It’s advice I’ve gotten backwards a lot for a long time, despite being a dad-to-be three different times and despite identifying the problem years ago in this recently republished article. Don’t let this be the good advice that you just didn’t take, if …
Blog
How to Recognize an Unvarnished Dad
Right before the subway doors closed last night a dad got on who I thought I recognized as one of us. He lurched through the doorway. One hand holding a folded baby stroller, the other lightly guiding the back of his 2-year-old daughter’s head. The girl didn’t want to sit in a seat offered to …
Family Vacation Ideas and Inspiration from Travel Pros
Recently my friend Daphne (not her real name) told me that her friend Velma (likely not her real name) wanted to know where the travel pros go in winter, because Velma really needed to get away with her kids, so did I have any great family vacation ideas? Daphne is a former travel writer, so …
Family Vacation Ideas and Inspiration from Travel ProsRead More
2019 Rand McNally Road Atlas: The Traveling Dad Review
Rand McNally sent me a giant road atlas and for a while I’ve struggled with what to say about it. It seems like yesterday (it was eight months ago) that I tore open the mailing pouch, asbestos-like fluff deploying skyward like fanfare to reveal my review copy of the 2019 Rand McNally Road Atlas. A …
2019 Rand McNally Road Atlas: The Traveling Dad ReviewRead More
He/She/They/We Doth Hath The Beat on Broadway — A Head Over Heels Broadway Review!
Head Over Heels, a punk rock Shakespearean romp set to the classic 80’s songs of The Go-Go’s. I recently challenged my teenager, who is Broadway musical obsessed, to write her first Broadway review about this show after having seen a Saturday matinee last month, getting a quick tour of the stage and the wings of …
He/She/They/We Doth Hath The Beat on Broadway — A Head Over Heels Broadway Review!Read More
Go Vacation On Vacation with Nintendo Switch and Royal Caribbean
My teenager isn’t really taking a gap year. That said, if you were to hear her describe heading into an online charter high school this fall, that’s exactly what it would sound like. I can only imagine what our fellow back to school shoppers at Target were thinking, as an obviously not-even-close-to college age child …
Go Vacation On Vacation with Nintendo Switch and Royal CaribbeanRead More
Journey to Genoa
Travel is a group decision in my family, so when I mentioned Genoa I was disappointed when no one got excited. The problem was image. We had passed the city a half dozen times on road trips to France but the views from the highway were always uninviting. I persisted though and rested my case …
The Traveling Dad Guide to Pandora: The World of Avatar
The Traveling Dad Guide to Pandora: The World of Avatar was reported by Shawn McAskill, Paul Eisenberg, Tim Jones, Daymon Patterson, Josh Rodriguez, and John C. Vanda at Pandora’s debut in May 2017 and was updated by Paul in July 2018 when a delegation from Traveling Dad and Traveling Mom swarmed the Toy Story Land …
The Traveling Dad Guide to Pandora: The World of AvatarRead More
The Traveling Dad Video Guide to Toy Story Land With Daym Drops
The Traveling Dad Video Guide to Disney Toy Story Land is not the definitive guide to Toy Story Land but it’s certainly among the first — a Traveling Mom/Traveling Dad delegation was embedded at the worldwide media preview of the new land at Walt Disney World’s Disney’s Hollywood Studios the weekend of June 29 — …
The Traveling Dad Video Guide to Toy Story Land With Daym DropsRead More
Sliding Into Summer with the Dr. Seuss Word Challenge on All Carnival Cruise Ships In July
Carnival Cruise Line is known for many things. There’s Grooving for St. Jude outside on the Lido deck, towel animal surprises in your cabin each evening, and, on the newer ships Vista and Horizon, the only IMAX Theaters at sea and a craft brewery on board. For little kids, what they probably love most about …
Sliding Into Summer with the Dr. Seuss Word Challenge on All Carnival Cruise Ships In JulyRead More
The Right Parts for Your Performance Car
Okay so you know I travel a lot. But what you may not know is when I do, I drive to my destinations more than 30% of the time. And when it’s time to hit the road I need my cars …
Celebrate Father’s Day With Dads Who Rock (and Rap)
Being a dad blogger means I get to know about a lot of rad dads doing rad things in the honeymoon glow of fatherhood. There’s my pal Sean Singleton’s Pop Lyfe Shop , the wonderful City Dads Groups all across the country, and Broadway actor-turned-dad-turned-entrepreneur Gavin Lodge’s high end diaper bags for handsome dudes sold …
Celebrate Father’s Day With Dads Who Rock (and Rap)Read More
