She'll never know that my day doesn't begin until I get a big enthusiastic hug from her in the morning and my day doesn't end until I get big dinosaur hugs from her at night. All the other times I'm just waiting for my hugs. She'll never know that ...

Graphic by Chris @ Daddy DoctrinesLast week we began a new feature here at The Chalkboard, The Father 100. The idea was to have dads and moms who own a blog write a one hundred word piece on a given word. I was psyched to have seventeen awesome da...

Day two of our stay-cation was another action packed day. We started with a family round of mini golf, cooled off at Splashdown Water Park, and finished up at Cold Stone Creamery for ice cream (some of us, more on that soon). One of the byproducts of this stay-cation is ...

Hey folks, First my check in this week is -1. Down to 266 I was expecting/hoping for a -2. I sweat for it, but no go. Accomplishments for August -3 lbs 9 runs for 20.5 miles Kept food diary for 15 days Goals for September Finish at 260 10+ runs for...

Author Darren Ferguson wrote of his former prison life: "We inmates are all from 5 neighborhoods in New York City.  It's like a train that begins on my block.  You get on the train when you're nine or ten years old, and the train ends up at Sing...

Monday was my first parent/teacher meeting, if you can call it that.  It was the orientation for Ella’s three year old pre-school. I had flashbacks of high school as I walked through the locker lined halls. All of the drama that high school entailed came flooding back.  It was such a competition. ...

I'm swearing off DIY car maintenance for awhile. My weekend SUCKED! I spent 6-8 hours under the car fighting a starter install. 90% of that time was spent futzing with ONE MF BOLT! (It was very VERY hard to get to.) I long for an old car where everyth...

The picture below is a scanned copy of the letter that Caleb's preschool teacher gave to parents on the first day of school. It was very moving, and yes, I cried a little the second time I read it. Man enough to admit it! I just wanted to share this ...

Since some folks might find this forum and want to know more about tantrums, here is a dad labs video on the subject. http://www.dadlabs.com/The-Lab/dealing-with-tantrums.html

I suggest two wagers, 1 for the Dadlabs crew and 1 for the rest of us. Whichever Dadlabs daddy loses has to do something embarrassing in an episode, and whichever fan wins gets some kind of Dadlabs prize (perhaps swag and/or some kind of episode mentio...