Disclosure: City Dads Group is proud to partner with Baby Dove.If you've ever been shamed by a partner, friend, relative or complete stranger for parenting "the wrong way," Dove beauty and grooming products has your back in its new ad campaign.To help launch its new Baby Dove line of cleaning and moisturizing products for wee ones, the company takes the stand that every mom and dad parents in his/her own way and none is necessarily right or the best. The concept aims to build the confidence of all new parents by showing a broader picture of modern parenting in response to Dove … [Read more...]
Combat Picky Eaters with Tips Cooked up by Twin Cities Dads
Your kid doesn't like vegetables? Try serving her a medley of colorful, cut up veggies in a martini glass topped with a cookie and a little drink umbrella.Making food fun, and letting children have pride and ownership in what they create in the kitchen are among the tips and tricks members of our Twin Cities Dads Group gave a local Minnesota television station on a special cooking segment in March.Watch the whole thing and learn from Chris Brandenburg, John Francis and Keith Nagel (who brought along his two sons, Logan and Sawyer): … [Read more...]
Upworthy Agrees: Dads Need Changing Tables for Babies, Too!
Our recent report on diaper changing tables now being required in men's and women's rooms in publicly accessible federal buildings caught the eye of the people over at the Upworthy website. They interviewed City Dads Group co-founder Lance Somerfeld on the subject as he changed his daughter on a park bench, and posted the video on Facebook.As of this publication, the video has received more than 430,000 views and 450 comments.Earlier this month, President Obama recently signed into law the Bathrooms Accessible in Every Situation Act, or BABIES Act. The new law requires baby changing … [Read more...]
What Will Our Kids Do Without Newspapers?
The Tampa Tribune, a newspaper that long reflected and enhanced the lives of hundreds of thousands of Central Floridians, landed in driveways for the final time May 3, victim of a competitor buyout. That day also happened to be World Press Freedom Day.In the wake of that depressing news, I asked myself a question I never expected to ask when I became a parent in 2005: What will our children do without newspapers?For 300 years, newspapers informed and connected members of the community. Reporters and editors held civic leaders accountable. They shared stories that made home, home. … [Read more...]
Grassroots Take Hold in Columbus, Ohio
Congratulations to our 200-member strong Columbus Dads Group for an excellent local television appearance!Our Ohio outpost was one of our first ventures when City Dads Group went national two years ago. It was a natural starting point given it's founder is Ryan Gross, who started as a member of our flagship NYC Dads Group before moving back to the Midwest."I started by asking other dads to join. It was kind of a grassroots campaign," Gross told the interviewer for Fox28 in Columbus. "I'd see a dad at the playground, hand him a card."If you have problems viewing the video below, you … [Read more...]