Celebrating Dads
This blog is dedicated to celebrating guys who choose to be a Really Cool Dad, while exposing the stereotypes and silliness from those who promote the outdated notion of fatherhood, the Neanderthal Dad. I want to know what you think. Share your thoughts and comments with me.Dad
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- Unsolicited Advice
- Wake Up Call for Aspiring Athletes
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- Father’s Day Twitter Chat, #MomsOfBoysChat
- One step forward.
- What’s your family worth?
- 8 Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Became a Dad.
- A moment or more of silence.
- Plays well with others.
- Parenting Wisdom for Lance Armstrong
- No do-over.
- How can you be so poor with so much money?
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Author Archives: Stephen Abbott
Teachable Mmmm..moments.
I love food. Food is energy and nutrition, but it’s also a celebration of tastes and traditions and experiments and seasons. Food is love. So it’s no surprise that I like cooking, even with kids. Now, normally I reject the … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Cooking, Education, Food, Inspirations
Tagged Cooking, culture, education, food, teachers
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This teacher excites me.
I just had the most inspiring conversation with a teacher at my son’s school. Not his current teacher; just one that I have come to know over the years. Today we started talking about technology in the classroom, but the … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Education, Inspirations
Tagged education, inspiration, school, teachers
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Cool dads can sell.
A commercial from Huggies™ got a pretty severe lashing from a number of men’s groups recently. I didn’t see the ad, but apparently they ran a campaign insinuating that dads were clumsy or rough with diapers. You can read about … Continue reading
Posted in Cool dad in action, Current News, Marketing
Tagged Advertising, culture, Families, marketing
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Boys and Girls
I was really dismayed and frustrated to read the transcript of this week’s #DadChat, a weekly Twitter chat about being a dad. I’ve followed the chat for a while, yet almost never take part, but it’s one of the hash … Continue reading
Posted in That's Not Right, Thinking Differently
Tagged boys, cliche, culture, friends, girls, marriage, neanderthal myth, play, relationships, teasing, trust
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Adventures of a Really Cool Dad 