Comments on: Connect With Your Child

By: Stop The Criticism, Inspire Your Children | Postcards from the Funny Farm

Stop The Criticism, Inspire Your Children | Postcards from the Funny Farm — Fri, 23 May 2008 22:52:11 +0000

[...] there are many pleasant memories that I could share with you, instead I want to discuss a not-so-fond memory from my youth and how I [...]

By: Stop The Criticism, Inspire Your Children

Stop The Criticism, Inspire Your Children — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:16:51 +0000

[...] there are many pleasant memories that I could share with you, instead I want to discuss a not-so-fond memory from my youth and how I [...]

By: Dad = Play Time :: Mom = Everything Else | Dad Balance

Dad = Play Time :: Mom = Everything Else | Dad Balance — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 05:33:24 +0000

[...] kids. As I mentioned, I do my best to be there to help with homework and we have the tradition of a bedtime story. Tonight I made sure to attend parent-teacher conferences at school. Over the summer, I make sure [...]

By: Derek Semmler

Derek Semmler — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:05:24 +0000

John, that is amazing! Thanks for sharing the link.

My kids are a little too old for that so I will be spared from having to try it. But looking at those pictures reminds me of the Christmas that I tried to build the kids a table for their train set. It would have been much easier, and possibly more cost efficient, to have just bought the pre-made table.

Be sure to post about it if you give this a try!

By: JLow

JLow — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 06:41:35 +0000

Hey Derek,

I came across this & knew I had to share it.

http://fortytworoads.blogspot.com/2007/10/toy-kitchen-is-finished.html

I don’t know about other dads, but I am willing to give this one a try as well with Caitlin; at least it shouldn’t take as long as the air castle fiasco!

By: Dad Balance Digest :: Premier Edition | Dad Balance

Dad Balance Digest :: Premier Edition | Dad Balance — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:57:17 +0000

[...] Rodney McKenzie was a guest author over at On Balance and shared his story about his layoff’s unexpected bonus. This is a great story about how a dad and his son had an opportunity to bond and share special time together. [...]

By: Derek Semmler

Derek Semmler — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:59:33 +0000

JLow :: Bedtime does provide a great chance to spend a little time with your child. In our house, our oldest gets to stay up 30 minutes later than our youngest now and lately we have been taking that time to sit together and talk about a wide variety of topics and I absolutely cherish this time right now.

@ToddlerDaddy :: It is funny how quite a few of the “dad” activities involve risky behavior on the part of the kids. Our kids’ adventurous “stunts” are typically done with me as well. Your breakfast time sounds very nice as well.

@JLow (again) :: Thanks for taking the time to read this blog, it is truly appreciated!

By: JLow

JLow — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 19:59:06 +0000

Time is always an issue, isn’t it? That’s why I read with interest this Dad Balance blog!

Caitlin nags me for activities to do together: swimming, going to the park (for its turtles in the lake & the playground), groceries run.

I am now cultivating the bedtime story like ToddlerDaddy with his kids. So far it seems to be something Caitlin looks forward to; well, at least not mind foregoing her Playhouse Disney channel for..

By: ToddlerDaddy

ToddlerDaddy — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 14:16:41 +0000

While I don’t have a special time as such with our toddler there are certain things that just tend to happen only with me. These are generally the more dangerous activities like jumping off the couch onto her beanbag, or climbing up things. This is because Wife always says to only do these when I am around because at least I can catch Little Miss. This has the effect of whenever I am around Little Miss insists we do these things together.

The other thing we have, which I guess is a little more structured, is when I am home for breakfast on the weekend I always cook a special breakfast (porridge and eggs) and we eat it together.

I am also doing my best to get her interested in the sports I love – but sadly I am losing that battle to Dora and the Wiggles.

By: JLow

JLow — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:06:17 +0000

I’ve talked about putting our Caitlin to bed & chatting with her in the dark almost every night. Sadly this is because Mummee is the workaholic between us & is usually not home yet at Caitlin’s bedtime.

I have see how my older brothers have engaged their kids in showing them things for the first time in their lives. I think being there during the first times creates that bond as the child grows. “My dad showed me how to put petrol in the car”, “My dad taught me the word ‘cocoon’” [check out my post on Pocoyo & you'd know what I mean!]

I think it would be even more interesting with once-a-lifetime events: Who were you with when you saw Haley’s Comet?

We only have one child at the moment, so it’d be interesting to see how we will handle things once our second one comes in January.