Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
- Claude Monet
Dad Suggests was created to share with others the many different things that we have loved sharing with our own children.
Our hope is that - by reading or visiting our children’s bookstore - you will find something special to enjoy with your own family.
- Ryan
All tagged dad advice
Talking about the books you read together with your kids can be vitally important. Sometimes major lessons can be lost without a nice followup conversation, and sometimes the wrong lessons entirely can be extracted.
Have you ever stopped to consider how often you say no to your child’s requests to play - whether you have a good reason or not. Take the Say-Yes Challenge and spend more quality time playing with your kids for your benefit and theirs.
Gone are the days where kids will see other kids and adults reading for fun all around them. Nowadays it honestly feels like even well-meaning, book-loving dads like me need to be even more intentional about reading in front of our kids than we ever thought.
There’s a very good chance you’ve said this line to your own kids at one time or another: “You need to apologize right this instant!” Apologizing, after all, is important in our relationships. But did you know that not everybody believes forced apologies are good for kids? And if forced apologies aren’t effective, how are we supposed to pass on the empathy we want to teach?
Get kids to actually want to brush their teeth. Believe it or not, sometimes our kids don’t do what we’d like them to do. Occasionally, brushing teeth is one of those things we’d prefer that they did. This is how we change their mind.
This is a positive way to calm down an angry child. What do you do when your child is so upset that their anger leads to bad decisions - like saying hurtful things or even hitting? Check out our special trick for calming down our kids in a fun way.
