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Wants and Needs: Teach Your Children the Difference with These Tips

October 12, 2020 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

wants needs dog eyes pie

EDITOR'S NOTE: City Dads Group is working with longtime partner Dove Men+Care to create “how to” videos for the grooming products company’s “Dads Care” campaign. We will be featuring the videos and scripts our members appear in. This one features contributor Mike Dorsey and his children, Maxwell and Morgan, talking about the differences between wants and needs.

To start this process, you should have your kids define "needs" and "wants" in their own words. When you allow your children to do this, it helps them understand the concept in their own terms. For … [Read more...]

Filed Under: parenting advice, parenting styles Tagged With: Dove Men+Care, Mike Dorsey, tips, video

Light Still Can Be Found Even Amid Darkness of These Times

September 23, 2020 by Guest Contributor 1 Comment

star light shines on man's face amid darkness

I’m gonna break character here and tell y'all something. Normally, I try to remain positive and affirmative and gentle, bordering on Pollyannaish, but some days I feel different, discordant … broken. The something I want to tell you seems obvious to me. These are dark fucking times. You may quote me. The news, honestly, breaks me often. The pain and suffering. The jingoism and economic imbalance. Pleas for money so our kids can fucking eat. Campaigns that say nothing of weight or promise and only attack with a ferocity that shears my soul. I go on Facebook -- the only social network I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: news, parenting styles Tagged With: Bill Peebles, coping, COVID19, emotions, fears, politics

Meditation Helps Parents, Children Maintain Relaxed State of Mind, Body

September 21, 2020 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

mother does meditation with child in lap

EDITOR’S NOTE: City Dads Group is working with longtime partner Dove Men+Care to create “how to” videos for the grooming products company’s “Dads Care” campaign. We will be featuring the videos and scripts our members appear in. This one features Devon Bandison of our NYC Dads Group, with a little help from his son, talking about how to teach kids to meditate. My son and I have been meditating for about two years. We started doing about five minutes every day or every other day and then we've moved up to 15 minutes each morning. We find meditation is a great way to start our day. It helps … [Read more...]

Filed Under: parenting advice, work-life balance Tagged With: Dove Men+Care, tips, video

Reading Routine a Habit Parents Can Help Children Form

September 8, 2020 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

father reads to child reading routine

EDITOR’S NOTE: City Dads Group is working with longtime partner Dove Men+Care to create “how to” videos for the grooming products company’s “Dads Care” campaign. We will be featuring the videos and scripts our members appear in. This one features Drew Bennett of BenSpark Family Adventures and our Boston Dads Group with a little help from his children talking about how to set up a reading routine. Reading is such an important activity for our family. My wife and I read to our children when they were small every night, and it has paid great dividends. My daughter, Eva, for example, is now a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: education, parenting advice Tagged With: Dove Men+Care, reading, tips, video

Jenga Game an Adapt Metaphor for Handling for Pandemic Schooling

September 2, 2020 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

kids playing jenga

I loved playing video games while growing up, but my dad was never into them. Instead we would usually play board games like checkers or backgammon together . On occasion, when we would visit relatives in Queens, N.Y., we'd break out group  games like Monopoly and Trouble. One fateful evening when I was around 10 or 11 years old, we played a very memorable round of the block tower building game, Jenga. Jenga can be just as riveting to observe as it is to play: Watching others carefully choose the right or wrong block and edge toward a rousing victory or an embarrassing defeat that ends in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: education, play Tagged With: COVID19, games, remote learning, Vernon Gibbs II

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