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As fathers, there are times when we have to think about what we say to our kids. Without context, things can get crazy. This week I wanted to talk about how a recent health scare had me dodging questions from the family. We all do it for dif
Health is one of those things many of us don't pay mind to until we have a big scare! A big scare got me focused and although it sucks to have happened that way, I'm grateful for it. This week I needed a FRIEND to lean on to talk about he
How do you build a connection with your child?There are millions of ways and for some of us, the connection comes via the love of sneakers. This week I wanted to explore that with my friend Kian Miller, aka Mr. Miller or Miller's Corner.
When you hear the word deadbeat, you associate it with a deadbeat mother or father but others can be deadbeats as well!This week Mike Dorsey and I talked about dealing with people that show deadbeat tendencies whether they have kids or not!
Where I'm from the streets taught many of us about guns at an early age! As a father, I'm trying to minimize what my kids learn from the streets and decided that it was up to me to teach them how to PROPERLY handle a gun. Off we went!This we
Around here, real child support isn't just a check we write to the court system. Instead, child support is being there for your child's ups and downs as they grow in life. This week, Mike Dorsey and I talked about the definition society emph
When social workers came around, kids in my neighborhood worried and so did some of the parents! Come to find our Social Workers aren't the boogie man or woman, they actually want you and your KIDS to WIN!This week we sat down with my fr
Were traditions huge in your family? I didn't know they were until I had my own kids and started forming our own traditions with them!This week we covered why traditions matter and how they can be huge or small but the real sauce is being th
Conversations help us grow and when we grow our kids grow with us!This week I wanted to jump on a call with my friend Mike Dorsey of the Black Fathers Now community to share some of our conversation in a new series called: We Do It For Our K
Ever thought about taking your kids to a trade show? We took our oldest to the Got Sole Sneaker Trade Show to watch him work and man did he kill it! The most important lesson here was to remember that our kids know way more than they sometimes
Resolutions, are they holding you down, or are your actions doing so?Around here we focus on our actions, not on our plans!This week we focused on 3 things I feel can help you and me as we continue to make our presence felt! Self-care:
Who's going to take care of your child's most valuable asset, YOU? Self-Care isn't something we dads focus on but should. For this episode, we talk about how the At Home Dads Conference made me realize how important self-care truly is. Hop
We parents are great at acknowledging when our kids do bad, it's time to keep that same ENERGY when they do GOOD! This week we talked about rewarding your kids for doing good and why it's ok to do so! #FatherhoodIsLit To follow us on soci
How do you teach your kids to defend themselves? That's a question we all have to really think about as our world and issues change! This week, I got my homie Mike Roman, founder of Rumble In The Bronx, to come through to drop gems! We covered
"Dad, I'm built different!" My son hit me with that line and at 1st I couldn't stop laughing. Then I realized he was right and damn I'm proud to have been part of that. Tune in to find out why our kids ARE BUILT DIFFERENT and why we need to kee
You always hear that kids need to learn how to love themselves first but how the hell do we teach that without turning them into cocky monsters? Oh #dadlife, you got to love it! This week we had the homie Vernon Gibbs II come through and drop s
Sometimes we do things for our kids that we think are little or small in comparison to other things but in reality, are huge for our kids. This week we cover how little things turned into big things on our side of fatherhood as we celebrated Fa
Father's Day is always a special day! This week we talked about 3 things that we sometimes overlook that make this life the best life!When they know it allWhen they get excited and we have no clue whyOur values & traditions pop up later
How does a father deal with Clubfoot or any other birth defect his child might have? It starts with faith and research! This week we had our friend Christian Penn of nonprofit Projectivity come through to talk to us about overcoming Clubfoot wi
Taking chances means you will run into boring events. It's part of #dadlife but we can do something about the events we choose to attend. Listen to how we survive and sometimes even avoid boring events by researching them, batching events, and
Mario Armstrong believes we should never settle for less, but how do we teach our kids that? This week Mario came through and blessed us with gems on how we can teach our kids all about it. From a $2 bank account to 2 time Emmy Award recipient
Ever held the door for someone and have them walk right on by without saying thank you? Yeah about that! This week we covered why dope Fathers like YOURSELF, need to teach kids about manners and how to uphold them! Remember one day your kids
Can a busy dad start a successful business? Of course, he can, he's a superhero! This week we had serial entrepreneur and founder of the ParentPrenuer Foundation James Oliver come through. He dropped gems on starting a business, running it whil
Sometimes the lesson we want to teach our kids backfires and that's ok! This week we covered not knowing it all, how our kids know more than us sometimes, and falling back on your life experiences when our lessons backfire. Our kids will be bet
How important are you, THE FATHER, to your child's education? More important than you know! This week we have Derek Phillips, CEO of the Real Dads Network and retired Assistant Principal dropping gems on the education side and why our PRESENCE
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