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New York City Dads Group

Navigating Fatherhood Together

NYC Dads Group is part of a national organization dedicated to helping fathers socialize and support one another.

Hold Close the Fatherless Children of 9/11

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On this day of remembrance, which is so powerful and painful to all Americans but most especially to those of us in and around NYC, we offer this report ABC World News did two years ago about the children of fathers-to-be who died at the hand of terrorists during the 9/11 attacks of 2001.

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If fathers can have this kind of impact on children they never meet, imagine the difference a father who is alive and present and involved every day in his child’s life can have.

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Parent Wonderings: Explaining the Boston Marathon Tragedy to My Children

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I was leaving my weekly trip to Target, picking up some diapers and other household essentials, the kids were fast asleep in their car seats when I got an alert from the Associated Press about the explosions at the Boston Marathon. I quickly tuned into 1010 Wins news-radio, figuring they would have the most up to date information. As the day's events unfolded, traditional media and social media had a hard time keeping up with the news. Confirmed reports. Unconfirmed reports. It was very hard to decipher what was true. I looked back at Nugget and Thor soundlessly napping and was glad that I … [Read more...]

Remembering My Father-In Law, “Babik”

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When I became a stay at home dad, about a year ago, I had no idea what kind of impact I would have as a dad and as a son. Those first days at home, I drove my father-in-law Nazaret to his radiation treatments. He could still drive at that point, but the chemo treatments were taking their toll so it was better to have someone go with him. By July, he was doing better, seemingly cancer free.
Then in the early fall, he was sick again. This time it was much worse. Instead of having a very treatable cancerous growth near his jaw, his doctors were … [Read more...]