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Inside Fatherhood

Archive for July 2008

July 31st, 2008

Your Baby Can Read! Bloggy Giveaway Winner

Hi folks! I’s time to announce the winner of the Your Baby Can Read starter edition DVD and words cards Bloggy Giveaway!
There were tons of great responses, so I used a random number generator to pick the winner from those who left an appropriate comment. For those of you who didn’t win, I still have […]

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July 28th, 2008

Fatherhoodmatters.com

In the coming days I will be transitioning from writing on Inside Fatherhood to Fatherhoodmatters.com. This site will be discontinued in its current format for the time being so I hope that you will all join me on my new blog for similar content and a fresh approach.
Please sign up for the Fatherhood Matters RSS […]

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July 28th, 2008

Goodnight Moon Giveaway at FatherhoodMatters.com

The Bloggy Giveaway Carnival is live and there is a Goodnight Moon giveaway going on over at FatherhoodMatters.com. Check it out and good luck!

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July 28th, 2008

Your Baby Can Read! Bloggy Giveaway

* UPDATE - This contest has closed. Please visit FatherhoodMatters.com  for another bloggy giveaway contest. *
In the spirit of the Bloggy Giveaway Carnival I’m giving away a copy of Your Baby Can Read starter edition DVD and words cards.
To enter to win, leave a comment on this post telling me why you think it’s important […]

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July 27th, 2008

The Week In Recalls 7/21/08 - 7/27/08

 Hello parents and consumers. This week there were five child-related products recalled by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). If the names of any of these products sound familiar or you think you might own them, visit the link with each listing below to find pictures and/or part numbers of the items in question. If […]

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July 26th, 2008

Father’s Day in the Dominican Republic

Tomorrow, July 27 is the day on which Father’s Day is celebrated in the Dominican Republic. So happy Father’s Day to all you dads in the DR.
Other recent international celebrations of Father’s Day were:
Uruguay - July 13
Haiti - June 29
Nicaragua, Poland, Uganda - June 23
Leabanon - June 21
El Salvador, Guatemala  - June 17

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July 26th, 2008

A rant about baby gate vendors and online experience

I’m in the middle of the painfully annoying task of finding the right baby gates to fit our home. We have several irregular width archways that are not the size of standard door openings. I can’t imaging mine is the only home out there like this, but several baby gate manufacturers seem to assume that […]

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July 25th, 2008

A Practical Approach to Dealing With Monsters

This video brings a few things to mind.
1. Your children pay more attention to the words and content of movies than you do.
2. Laughing at something your kid does and them telling them no probably won’t change what they do.
3. Do not mess with this little girl.

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July 25th, 2008

Family meals reduce risky teen sex

You never knew dining together was so important, did you? A recent analysis of data by a group at Boston College found a very strong link between the amount of family interaction in which teens partake and the amount and riskiness of sexual activity
The more times a week that an adolescent reported having dinner with […]

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July 23rd, 2008

August is National Children’s Vision & Learning Month

In case you didn’t know, August is National Children’s Vision and Learning Month. The focus of this month (no pun intended) is to stress the correlation between a child’s vision and learning.
August was declared National Children’s Vision & Learning Month in 1995.  The goal of  this national observance is to help educate parents and educators […]

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