Friday, September 3rd, 2010

If you’ve been wanting to work on creating your family tree but were turned off by the monthly fee genealogy leader Ancestry.com charges and underwhelmed by the free options available I have good news. There is a free Web-based tool and site, Geni.com, that’s an impressive and powerful application and very easy for even non-technical [...]

A great read and recommended for any dad and especially for you dads that wouldn’t buy a book about fatherhood if it was the only reading material left on earth. Here are what some others are saying about ‘Daddy How Do You Know‘ by Step Jones: “Written in a style that is part personal journal [...]

Procrastinating at Christmas time is one of my favorite pastimes. But, last minute shopping is one of my least favorite duties. What is a dad to do? Delegate to mom! Merry Christmas everyone!

Of course not, but according to research dinosaurs not only didn’t eat their offspring… they may have been stay at home dad dinosaurs. A team of paleontologists has concluded that at least three types of dinosaur males did the brooding and incubating after using statistical comparisons with birds and an analysis of leg bones found [...]

Sequenom has developed a non-invasive prenatal test that may replace the amniocentesis tests that are performed 450,000 times a year in the US. Both of these tests are done to detect chromosomal defects, such as Downs Syndrome and Trisomy, while an unborn baby is still in the womb. The main difference being that an amniocentesis [...]

The Wall Street Journal reported that the number of stay at homes dads increased by over 60% from 2003 to 2006 according to the census. In addition, Census data reported in 2008 shows that 25% of children (2.8 million out of 11.3 million) under five whose mothers are employed, are cared for by their fathers. [...]

Want to give dad a simple and inexpensive gift for Christmas that he will appreciate? Any one of the movies below will fit the bill: 300 – A movie that has no trouble getting the heart pounding and a reminder that even though our day jobs have changed considerably, fatherhood has not changed all that [...]

The Stand Up Guys nonprofit organization is working to end violence against women and they need our help. Their overarching mission is to raise awareness about men’s violence against women and girls and to promote gender equality in our communities. They accomplish this mission through education, community projects and by holding events and activities that [...]

If you have kids into LEGOs they are going to love this video. Their imagination will never be the same after they watch this European fashion show inspired animation. Even Grandma and cousin John enjoyed watching this colorful show.