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Helicopter Shutterbugs

April 21, 2012

Don’t get me wrong. I don’t want to forget or lose any important memories in life — especially with my kids. That’s why people capture memories with pictures — including me. But with a high-end camera embedded inside every smart phone, parents have become addicted to capturing every single moment of their kids’ lives. They’ve [...]

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Turning 50

April 21, 2012

I’m not 50. I’m not even 40. But this week we — the Cast of Dads — published our 50th episode (Draining The Snowblower). This milestone makes CoD one of the longest running parenting podcasts.

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Spring Break Ghost Town

April 12, 2012

Each morning, I push my son and daughter in a double-stroller to their preschool, before hopping on the train to Manhattan. We usually dodge dozens, sometimes hundreds of kids, along with parents and dogs accompanying them to school. Our fast-moving chariot often forces them off the sidewalk (sorry about that). But this week was different. [...]

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Talking Online Safety With Your Kids

April 3, 2012

What is a website, Daddy? That was the response from my five-year old when I asked him to name his favorite website. (For the record, the accompanying picture is not my son.) I found his response insightful. While he doesn’t know what the words “website” and “Internet” mean, he and his three-year-old sister absolutely know [...]

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MediaPost OnlineSpin – The Return

March 31, 2012

I just returned to my weekly OnlineSpin column at MediaPost, following a year-and-a-half break. Why the pause? First, I needed to invest more of myself into my late-stage startup. Second, I have young children between the ages of three and five. We’d been transitioning from a full-time nanny to full-day preschool, and I needed to [...]

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Driveway Chalk Drawing

March 25, 2012

My five-year-old son Julian did this driveway chalk drawing in about five minutes. I took the picture from our deck for a perpendicular, top-down view. In case you can’t tell, it’s a house with a steeple, sun shining, a pink “box tree”, an underground house and a water pipe traveling through the tree to the [...]

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Lose The Training Wheels

March 18, 2012

Time to lose the training wheels! My dad (aka “Grandeddy”) recently gave Julian, my oldest child, his first bike with training wheels. We’ve been riding every weekend for three months. Julian’s been building strength in pedaling. Julian and I discussed his bicycling progress and agreed today was the day to remove the training wheels and [...]

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