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Our Favorite Book for Fathering Boys
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Making Kindness King
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Fatherhood is too significant to wing it. Dadcraft is a guide to help you refine and develop your most important craft—how you father.
Activities
You like to do stuff. Your kids like to do stuff. Here are some ideas for stuff that you can do together.
The [noun] that Dad Told was [adjective]: Mad Lib Storytelling
Board Game Afternoon
Flipping Father’s Day on Its Head
Top Five, High Five
Reading+ — 4 Things Your Kids Will Love to do While You Read to Them
Toward a More Enjoyable Meal Time: Conversation Starters #1
A dadcraft Favorite: Building a Soda Can Robug
Maintaining Your Sanity in the Car: Joke Party
One Origami Trick for the Tool Box
Yahtzee: An Oldie, but a Goodie
A Simple Valentine’s Day Gift Idea for Mom
Free Night? Make a Quick “Lava Lamp”
So You’ve Only Got Paper, Pencils, and Time…
Spicing Up Meal Time: Burp Lunch
At-Home Science — To Float a Paperclip
Memory: The Great (Board Game) Equalizer
A New Bedtime Routine: The Face Smoosh
In Praise of Camping
Snail’s Pace Race: Basic Board Gaming
Just Add Paper: Fold ‘N Fly, The Site for Making Paper Airplanes
How to Jelly-Fill Your Saturday Morning Errands
Knock ‘Em Down: Indoor, At-Home Bowling
Kung Fu Night
Make Memories: Create a Harry Potter Night
It’s Mom’s Birthday … a Simple, Meaningful Gift Idea
A Game for Tonight: Smartphone Find and Seek
At-Home Science – Gone (Ice) Fishin’
You Can Make It: a (PVC) Field Goal
3 Reasons to Break Out Home Movies and Pictures
At-Home Science: Penny Cleaning
Woodworking for Fun and (no) Profit
Beyond King Candy’s Land: Board & Card Games
At-Home Science Experiments
Coloring in Someone Else’s Lines: Finding Coloring Sheets Online
dadcraft in the Kitchen: Making Cupcakes
Not Going Anywhere? The 8 Best Youtube Videos for 4-Year-Olds
dadcraft in the Kitchen: Making Pizza
Maintaining Your Sanity in the Car: The Rainbow Game
The Traditional Scavenger Hunt to the Rescue
Scavenging Fun
Supercharged Coloring (for when you’re stuck without a coloring book)
dadcrafting the (at home) Car Wash
You Can Make It: (Simple) Books
The Passing of the Pigs
Obstacle Courses
When Normal Roughhousing Isn’t Enough
A dadcraft Favorite: LCR … Basic Rolling Fun
A dadcraft Favorite: GoNoodle
A dadcraft Favorite: Art for Kids Hub
Three Reasons Dads Love Chick-fil-A
A dadcraft Favorite: Hot Wheels Tracks
The Story of My Storytelling
Mother’s Day Fill-in-the-Blank
Guides
Wisdom learned along the way ... from successes and mistakes.
Making Kindness King
Two (unexpected) dadcraft Ideas in The MVP Machine
On Growing Independence
Know Your Kids
The Dad’s Guide to the Delivery Room
Five Important Reasons to Pay Attention
Welcome to Dad’s Barbershop
Two Tips for Watching Sports on TV with Your Kids
March Madness – Nontraditional Bracket Picking, 2019 Edition
Why We Love Traditions & Routines (and 3 Keys for Making Them for Your Family)
Telling Stories on Yourself
Dad’s Guide to Pets: The Four Categories You Need to Know
3 Great Untruths and How to Counter Them
A Fathering Resolution for New Years
Solo Time – Making the Most of One-on-One with Your Kids
The Dad’s Guide to Sleds
The Family Pep Talk Huddle
3 Things for the Brand New (and Not Brand New) dadcraftsman
Multi-Level dadcraft: Nonessential Oils
5 Dads on Their Backyard Games
4 Thoughts from Inflatable Pumpkins (on Kids & Consumerism)
3 Tips on Picking Your Battles
Be a Guide: 6 Things I Learned on the River
5 Dads on Their Go-To Meals
Back to School – 3 Tips to Help You be a Student of Your Kids
A Dad’s Guide to Teaching Basic Money Management
3 Parenting Alternatives to the Bad Advice of “Find Your Passion”
Power of Play
Salute to Single Dads
Three Keys to Rethinking Chores
Athlete Dads — 3 Examplars
When dadcraft Doesn’t Go As Planned
Keep This In Mind: They’re Watching
The Dad’s Guide to Explaining Rube Goldberg Machines
In Defense of (Temporary) Confusion
dadcraft Don’ts: Say You’re “Not a Baby Guy”
Where Are We Going?
dadcraft: The Six Ideals
March Madness – Nontraditional Bracket Picking, 2018 Edition
4 Tips to Watching Sports with Kids
Top 5 Posts of 2017
About Screaming Children on Airplanes
The Dad’s Guide to Modern-Day Foraging
6 Things I Learned from the Dad in “Swiss Family Robinson”
For Memorable Moments with Your Kids, Break the Script
On the Stupidity of “Less Kids is Green” Arguments
Reflecting on Summer
Five Dads on Roughhousing
There Are No Fathering Experts
Tennis Anyone? Teaching Your Kids the Sport of Conversation
A Parenting Tip I Just Learned: Find a Substitute
Dads-For-Rent (Seriously)
It’s Not Easy…but It’s Worth It
3 Ideas for Better Family Dinners
2 (Initial) Tips to Reading “Chapter Books” with Your Kids
Journey Towards Vulnerability
The Dad’s Guide to the Middle of the Night
5 Dads on Playing Princesses
3 Ways You Can Help Curb the Absentee Dad Crisis
Whisker Burn is the Lipstick of Dads
3 Ways to (carefully) dadcraft Your Grilling
The Turd Scoop (or: You Can Do It)
Two Dad Ads & What Fatherhood Means
The Dad’s Guide to Reading with Toddlers
4 Things to Remember When Your Kid Loses
5 Dads on Diaper Changing
The Dad’s (Second) Guide to Cooking with Young Kids
The Dad’s Guide to Teaching Your Kid to Ride a Bike
Your Boys Need to Move (and So Do You)
Bathtime Reflections
Fathering Out of Fatherlessness
The Dad’s (Initial) Guide to Cooking with Young Kids
The Dad’s Guide to the End of the School Year
Dad Joy
The Little Things Matter
A Dad’s Guide to Introducing Kids to Baseball
Taking One on the Chin: Because Dads Can’t Always Protect
The Dad’s Guide to Feeding Your Toddler
The Dad’s Guide to Dealing with Nightmares
What “I’m Sorry” Needs to Mean
Telling Bedtime Stories, a dadcraft Skill
How to Jelly-Fill Your Saturday Morning Errands
Notes to (and from) the Tooth Fairy
It’s Hard: Fatherhood and Realistic Expectations
The Dad’s Guide to Errands
You’re Not Homer: Raising the Bar for Fatherhood
Don’t Miss It: The Importance of Slowing Down
The Evening Hours: Finding ‘The Zone’ with Your Kids
Fathers: Not Jedis, but Irreplaceable
The Dad’s Guide to the Sidelines
The Dad’s Guide to the Doctor’s Office
When Kids Meltdown
5 Dads on Being Married to a Pregnant Woman
The Dad’s Guide to Home Repair
Intentional Parenting & Pierced Ears
5 Sharp Takes on Fathering
Being Present Is More Than Simply Being There
Making Your Dinner Table the Best Place in the House
The Long Goodbye: Telling Your Kids Your Story
Help in Unlikely Places: The Unpack
Developing Grit
The Dad’s Guide to Nicknaming
On Hiking Slowly
What My Commute Taught Me About Bedtime
dadcraft Don’ts: What Not to Text Your Wife
When I Fall Short
The Dad’s Guide to Flying with Children
Nontraditional Ways to Pick Your Brackets
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4 Dad-Tested Christmas Gift Ideas
The Dad’s Guide to Mother’s Day
5 Dads on Father’s Day
The Perfect, Timeless Father’s Day Gift
Christmas Gifts We Love To Give (and Love To Own)
The Dad’s Guide to Avoiding a Veruca Salt Christmas
Interviews
Interviews with some of the sharpest dadcraftsmen we know.
The dadcraft Life: Ray Chung & the Delight of Fatherhood
The dadcraft Life: Angel Maldonado & the Prioritizing Connecting with Our Kids
The dadcraft Life: Josh Beck & the Entrepreneur/Super-Athlete Balancing Act
The dadcraft Life: Mark Foreman & Raising Renaissance Children
The dadcraft Life: Bini Ewnetu & Bridging Two Cultures
The dadcraft Life: Nathan Hoag, Foster Care, & Self Care
The dadcraft Life: Adam Thomason & Endurance as a Father
The dadcraft Life: Patton Dodd and Cross-Country Trips with Young Children
The dadcraft Life: Andrew Bryant & Adoption
The dadcraft Life: How Michael Morgan Rethought His Career
The dadcraft Life: Obed Daphnis & Fathering in the Caribbean
The dadcraft Life: Andy Wood & a “Forced Sabbatical”
The dadcraft Life: Kevin Heldt and Being Open to Life (and a Big Family)
The dadcraft Life: How Carlos Moran rocked his paternity leave.
The dadcraft Life: John Paasonen on Launching a Family and a Startup
The dadcraft Life: Grant Clinton & (American) Ninja-enhanced Fatherhood
The dadcraft Life: Darius Wise & Navigating Sports and Hard Conversations
The dadcraft Life: Matt Breen & Being a Husband and Father First
The dadcraft Life: Tim Ellsworth & Taking Advantage of Today
The dadcraft Life: Andy Crouch and The Tech-Wise Family
The dadcraft Life: Ben Hamilton
“Fathers are …” — Notes on Fatherhood from Sho Baraka
The dadcraft Life: Xianyi Wu and a Messy, Crazy, Lifelong Experiment
The dadcraft Life: Cory Martin and the Forced Selflessness of Fatherhood
The dadcraft Life: Robert Gelinas & Changing What You’re Good At
Favorites
Items in the toolbox of the dadcraftsmen.
Our Favorite Book for Fathering Boys
A dadcraft Favorite: The Pea Pod
Salutes to Three Dads We Love
A dadcraft Favorite: GoNoodle
Just Add Paper: Fold ‘N Fly, The Site for Making Paper Airplanes
A dadcraft Favorite: OurPact App
A dadcraft Favorite: Art for Kids Hub
A dadcraft Favorite: Building a Soda Can Robug
Top 5 Posts of 2018
Top 5 Posts of 2017
The Best of 2016: 3 Top Posts
3 Things We Like This Week…and You Might Too
A dadcraft Favorite: Hot Wheels Tracks
A dadcraft Favorite: Author and Artist Oliver Jeffers
A dadcraft Favorite: Ben Hatke’s Zita the Spacegirl
3 Things We Like This Week…and You Might Too
Fatherhood in Film: Two Notable Documentaries
3 Things We Like This Week…and You Might Too
dadcraft Favorites: 3 Audiobook Series
dadcraft Favorites – Pool Toys
A dadcraft Favorite: HeyDad Subscription Boxes
Snail’s Pace Race: Basic Board Gaming
A dadcraft Favorite: LCR … Basic Rolling Fun
dadcraft: 3 Innovative Dad Tools
A dadcraft Favorite: The Pancake Pen
dadcraft Favorites: Blue Orange Games
A dadcraft Favorite: Lego
Four Card Games We Love
A dadcraft Favorite: Otrio Board Game
Three Reasons Dads Love Chick-fil-A
A dadcraft Favorite: The Whirley Pop
A dadcraft Favorite: Mamoko Picture Books
A dadcraft Favorite: Author and Artist Mo Willems
A dadcraft Favorite: The Chronicles of Narnia
A dadcraft Favorite: Wow in the World (a podcast for your kids and You)
A dadcraft Favorite: Circle with Disney
Inaugural dadcraft Retreat
A dadcraft Favorite: (Free) Building Workshops
Media
What we love, what we learned, and what we talked about with our kids about movies, books, and music.
What E.T. and Where the Red Fern Grows Can Teach Us
dadcraft Favorites: 3 Audiobook Series
In Defense of TV
A Few Thoughts on “Incredibles 2”
dadcrafting Movies
4 Albums You and Your Kids Must Put on Repeat
Fathering in A Quiet Place
Four Books to Put on Your Reading List with Your Kids
3 BBC Shows You Should Watch with Your Kids
A Few Thoughts on “Monsters, Inc.”
A dadcraft Favorite: Ben Hatke’s Zita the Spacegirl
A dadcraft Favorite: The Chronicles of Narnia
A dadcraft Favorite: Wow in the World (a podcast for your kids and You)
Five Reasons Moana > Elsa
A Few Thoughts on “Big Hero 6”
A Few Thoughts on “Inside Out”
A dadcraft Favorite: Mamoko Picture Books
A Few Thoughts on Pixar’s “Up”
A dadcraft Favorite: Author and Artist Mo Willems
A dadcraft Favorite: Author and Artist Oliver Jeffers