Almighty Dad | A stay at home dad blog

   Christie Sims, Emergency Services Dispatcher for Tompkins County New York, has been kind enough to answer some of my questions regarding 911.  Since this blog is dedicated to parenting I think there is nothing more relevant to parenting than teaching kids how to handle an emergency.  911 is a number with which every American child should be familiar.  But, more than simply having [...]

     We went to Kitty Hawk yesterday to see the field where the Wright brothers made their historic first flights.  It’s a national monument.  The visitor center contains a 200 seat auditorium with a replica Flyer where a park ranger gives a speech about the Wright brothers.  The auditorium wasn’t full during our presentation, but [...]

  Research conducted 10 years ago at the University of Queensland, Australia, found circumstantial evidence to indicate that vitamin D deficiency could be to blame for some cases of schizophrenia.   People who are born at higher latitudes in the winter or spring have higher instances of schizophrenia.  It was suspected that pregnant women’s’ lack of [...]

Of course there are lots of cheap alternatives to expensive cleaning products, but a lot of these solutions are unknown to people.  We tend to assume that professional products would naturally be better than ones costing a few cents and mixed by ourselves.  But, in the interest of saving money, I’ve collected a few tips [...]

    Oh, I’m not talking about that warm fuzzy feeling you supposedly get when you do a good deed.  I’m talking about volunteering and actually getting something in return.  We went to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science yesterday where I met a lady who was wearing a volunteer’s vest and who was patrolling the [...]

Stefan Lanfer is a Boston-based dad of two, playwright, and foundation strategy guy.  He blogs about “the big mysteries revealed in the small moments” of fatherhood at dadtoday.com, and about finding time and ways to hang in there with the work you are most passionate about, even when there is no time, and when there [...]

    Over the last few weeks a big fire burned 7,000 acres, and 170 houses in the foothills near Boulder.  It wasn’t the biggest fire Colorado has ever seen, but it was one of the most worrisome as it was close to a city, and it threatened so many residences.  Firefighters were called from surrounding states, the [...]

Agenor Limón works at University of California at Irvine (UCI).  He did his Masters and PhD in Physiologic Sciences at the Physiology Institute of Puebla, Mexico (BUAP).  He is currently in his post PhD at UCI working on the properties of Neurotransmission Receptors in Neurological illnesses.     Agenor is a good family friend.  His story [...]

I‘ve only made this recipe once, but since we’re approaching apple season and it was so awesome the first time, I thought I’d share it with you.  I’m going to go look for good apple cider and make some this afternoon.  Next week I’m going to make Egg Nog!  I’ll report on that when I [...]

        What to Expect The First Year sorts of books have their place, but I prefer psychology textbooks for more complete advice about human behavior.  Curiosity led me, this morning, to insight on speech development and the stages we go though to achieve full mastery of our language.  It turns out, logically, that language development is [...]

     Let me begin this by simply saying I find the following two movies interesting for the fact that they are personal stories of autism from people who, instead of accepting a diagnosis, have publicly asked uncommon questions about a disease that is still misunderstood by professionals who admit they don’t have all the answers yet [...]