Welcome to Normal Dad. All I do here is share thoughts on my life as a dad, everything from parenting experiences, cooking recipes, and our various health journeys. But mostly, it’s just a place to park the little tid-bits that I wish I could have read when starting out or before I ran into certain …
I mean, unless it’s absolutely necessary, try not to kick your dad. What happens when you make things fun and turn power on its head? TLDR: Putting your child in the driver’s seat while tackling a teaching moment can make it fun and memorable. Teaching your kid to use a swing shouldn’t be this much …
Don’t worry, this section is not about the demands placed on you or your kids by family, school, work, society or anything like that… it’s about the expectations we can and should place on our kids. TLDR: Set high standards. “If you shoot for the moon you’ll still land among the stars” can work great …
