(The following is a sponsored guest post. Some pretty good tips here, so I figured I’d run this post as it was submitted to me. Enjoy). As parents, it’s your job to ensure that your children grow up to be independent and responsible adults. This means teaching them essential life lessons that will help them down the line. Of […]
(Disclaimer: the following is a sponsored post). Stop me if you’ve heard this before: Nobody said being a parent was easy, and there are plenty of challenges that come with this. So, you need to try to make sure that you do the best you can to ensure you improve your role as a parent as much as […]
It was my daughter J’s 9th birthday recently, and, just like last year, we had to kibosh any party plans because of the pandemic. Gatherings still aren’t really allowed, and most fun places to go are closed. She likes puzzles, and mentioned wanting do an escape room before. Replicating the experience of one at our house seemed easy enough. […]
With all the 2020ness in 2020, it seems like everyone is just wishing that this year would end. Today, though, I have a positive story for y’all. It’s about how, after a six month battle, I finally emerged victorious. Score one for the little guy, woo! If you’ve ever wondered how to fight a toll bill, read on…. See, […]
Last week, I went into little KJ’s room, to check on him. Not immediately visible, I soon found him under a blanket, on his floor. He was playing hide and seek, he told me. He was alone, though, so I asked him who he was playing with. He was playing with his iPad, he replied. I tried to explain the […]
It’s almost Father’s Day season! That time of the year where dads everywhere are shown some love. Now, for many of us, that love is in the form of presents. Beautiful, glorious gifts, straight from the hearts of those who appreciate us the most. In our household, the kiddos tend to hook me up nice. They put in work, making […]
We are currently living through extraordinary, catastrophic times, man. Not only that, but one of the worst parts about this COVID-19 novel coronavirus story is that we don’t know the ending. Will it be happy, like the end of the TV show Friends? Or will it be disappointingly infuriating, like the end of the TV show Dexter? Who knows, […]
The first time that I attended a Dad 2.0 Summit, 2017 in San Diego, I wrote about ‘the push’ of going to it. I recently went to my second Dad 2.0 Summit, in Washington, D.C. This time, I would describe the experience as more of a pull, than a push. For the uninformed, the Dad 2.0 Summit, per […]
Mike is a blogger and content creator from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. A married father of three, Daddy Realness is about Mike’s experiences as a parent, which are sometimes good, sometimes bad, but always real, and always entertaining!