Wow that's a heavy title. I should say up front that I make no claim to wisdom. Or street smarts, common sense, book learnin', or even being a good guesser. This is not a How To. Merely a hope to....

Did it really take a study to prove that TV is bad for young children? Apparently so. Researchers at Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Centre in Seattle found that for each hour of TV a child watches, there is a 10% increase in the risk of att...

Deciding on the ways you should teach your son how to be a man can inspire a great deal of soul searching for any father. Back in the olden days, when a man was seen as the head of the household, sole bread winner and a pillar of physical and ...

I had planned to put a video together about "choosing a school for your children" to test out TED-Ed. However, my eight-year-old daughter caught wind of what I was doing and wanted to get in on the act. To cut a long story short my highly intellectual video-lesson turned into ...

Many resources for new parents treat moms and dads in the same way - they speak of a generic "parent" which is essentially dealing with the same challenges of adjusting to a new life style once the baby is hear. Reality is very different of course - de...

Fresh off of watching the season finale of "Fringe" last Friday, I happened upon an amazing discovery: FOX and the Science Olympiad have teamed up to create lesson plans to help students explore the real science behind some of the show's plot devices. Magnetism, combustion, electromagnetism, protein modeling, and more ...

What can you do to make sure your child doesn't get bullied at school? Find out about "bully proof courses" in your area! Bullying is a major issue for all school children and parents these days and it seems schools or government initiatives are relati...

When it comes to apps and education there is still a lot of work to be done to make sure that the way children engage with the digital world is purposeful and beneficial to learning and development outcomes. As GeekDads we have a big investment in our children's education and ...

The whole concept of apps on tablets that teach children handwriting is completely beyond me. Even more so, there are so many of them? I propose we just ban any further creation of apps that teach children to form letters with their forefinger for the following reasons.

I heard his voice as Trooper 4 while playing Halo: Reach. I've seen him as the charismatic host of Spike TV’s Video Game Awards in 2011. And my son and I are both huge fans of his tech-savvy super-agent character Chuck Bartowski from the NBC series Chuck. But I quickly ...