Father’s Day ideas from radio’s Ernie D

Usually, I don’t like to copy/paste reasons for doing anything from a manufacturer. However, these reasons just...

It’s almost always a good idea to shop used, especially for kid stuff, since they grow out of it so quickly. However,...

As a family with both a little kid (5) and an older one (10), we’re always looking for Wii games that we can play together. These tend to be physical games that require no reading. Here’s a title that we tried recently and all enjoyed because it kept us moving with music, if you call pop covers sung by chipmunks “music.”   Alvin, the Squeakquel, for Wii delivers what it promises, a fun music game for kids that older players can enjoy, at least for a while. Alvin is a classic music rhythm game. Players just use their WiiMotes to match the required rhythm for Alvin and Chipmunks covers of hit songs like “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” and “Funky...

What to say about this modern reality-show style book that hasn’t been said before. The bookshelves are filled with this type of thing: the guy who lives and dresses like Jesus for a year, the couple who give up the phone, television, and computer, and of course, Julie writing about her adventures with a year full of Julia Child recipes. This is the year (or years?) of the concept book, and we’re all curious to imagine what insights can be pulled from a year of slavish devotion to a book gimmick. The Power of Half is different, of course, because it appeals to our better natures and takes on a cause. It is not a marketing exercise, nor I think, did it start as a...

You gotta laugh at the Psycho Girlfriend episode (4 min) as she gets pregnant and her attitudes toward sex immediately change. Laugh-out-loud funny until you start crying.Note: some not unexpected salty language given the subject matter. Share on Facebook

My little boy, age “almost 6″ heard the sound of Spring rain on our windows this morning and announced, “It sounds like Hell.” Well, maybe it did to a boy who would have to walk four blocks from where we park the car to get to his urban school. We are ending the days of his malapropisms, though, and when they come I want to pick him up and hug all of his little boy-ness, since very shortly, I won’t be able to pick him up at all. Share on Facebook

Our friend, RJ Jamarillo is offering coaching for single dads on subjects ranging from custody to what to make for dinner tonight. He wants to share what he’s learned as a single dad with three kids. Finally, after countless hours of meetings, interviews and test cases; I am proud to announce the world’s first coaching service offered to the Single Parent Community using live “face to face” video conferencing. SingleDad Coaching service is not just about post divorce coaching; it’s about life. All topics are open to discussion; from cooking lessons to co-parenting advice…. What makes it so unique is that each person can customize their coaching sessions, specific to their needs in...

Image via Wikipedia Everyone tells you to raise a reader. Read to them when they are babies, read them stories every night, model reading behavior.  A great, or even good dad, will devote hours in slavish devotion to this idea.  Well, here’s one dad who will tell you what the evil publishing scientists and lobbyists won’t:  reading isn’t fundamental; it’s fundamentally mental. Teach your child to read and you’re in for fifteen years of hardship and maybe even more.  Here’s why: Image via Wikipedia 1. Reading with your kid eats up precious time.  “Lost” is on at 8PM where I live. Enough said. 2. Nightly reading isn’t...

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I lost my identity.  I was born identifying as a middle class white Jew.  I no longer identify religiously nor do I identify as being white.  My own family is “mixed” and, as I have come to understand, race identification is only a consequence of prejudice anyway.  I am part of a human family.  So, I lost the identity I grew up with or rather, I dissociated from it.  Am I worse off?  I don’t think so.  In fact, it is quite the opposite.  I now have an identity that is truly my own rather than pushed onto me by family and society.  Having said that, I do realize others may identify me differently than I do myself and some of the things I am today are also things assigned to me. But,...

It’s hard to believe with all that’s happening in the world, but this story has dominated the TV networks every day. An air traffic controller’s stunt in letting his 9-year-old twins direct planes has landed with a thud – on the kids. The brother and sister are blaming themselves because their father has been suspended for bringing them to work at Kennedy Airport, a relative said Thursday. “The kids are upset,” Glenn Duffy’s brother-in-law, Larry Johnstone, told the Daily News. “They feel it’s their fault … They’re thinking, ‘Daddy’s in trouble because of me.’” [From We cost Dad his job! Kids who took...

Now, this is wild stuff. The changes are amazingly tiny to us; the day is shortened by milliseconds. But it’s still astounding that a quake can have a cosmic effect. The Chile quake is the eight biggest on record. [From Chile Earthquake May Have Shortened Days on Earth - Yahoo! News]