You know them. They hover like the Seal Team 6, swooping in for the swift run, shoving their progeny out of way and go in guns blazing to rectify whatever issue tweaks them. They must protect the poor fragile children, who…
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Show 52: Helicopter Parents, how to not get caught in the rotor wash
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Posted in Beer, Dad, Dating, Daughters, Discipline, Emotions, Family, Fatherhood, Parents, Social Behavior, Sons
Posted in Beer, Dad, Dating, Daughters, Discipline, Emotions, Family, Fatherhood, Parents, Social Behavior, Sons
Show 51: Leave ’em alone. When adults flee!
There comes a time when your wee offspring are too old for a babysitter. You as parents agonize over leaving the kids unattended, even for a 30 minute trip to the store or for takeout. You take the risk, it…
Tagged with: alone, babysitters, communication, Dating, daughter, daugthers, discipline, education, fatherhood, friends, Fun, hanging out, kids, learning, Life, mom, Money, motivation, overworked, parents, parties, Podcasts, responsibility, small batch brewery, Social Media, son, teen drivers, teenager, teens, trust
Posted in Beer, Daughters, Discipline, Family, Fatherhood, Friends, Holidays, Motivation, Neighborhood, Parents, Sex, Social Behavior, Sons, Teen Driver, Travel, Wives
Posted in Beer, Daughters, Discipline, Family, Fatherhood, Friends, Holidays, Motivation, Neighborhood, Parents, Sex, Social Behavior, Sons, Teen Driver, Travel, Wives
Show 49: The Storm, She’s-a-comin’
Tweenhood. That time when the first hormonal bubbles start rising up and infecting our dear children. Michael Driver joins us to discuss his life with a 10-year-old daughter and how dad is now Super Hero, but as his dear Pilot…
Tagged with: beer, communication, dad, daugthers, fatherhood, friends, hormones, Michael Driver, music, peer pressure, puberty, radio, School, Ska, Super Hero, tweens, wives
Posted in Beer, Dad, Dating, Daughters, Education, Emotions, Family, Fatherhood, Parents, Social Behavior
Posted in Beer, Dad, Dating, Daughters, Education, Emotions, Family, Fatherhood, Parents, Social Behavior
Show 44: A beautiful day in the neighborhood
**Confession** I screwed up. I forgot to post. The dog ate my reminder. There was a rip in space-time continuum. Life got in the way. Here is the post that was supposed to run last week, but now runs this…
Tagged with: boys, consensus, dad, daugthers, disagreement, education, fatherhood, free range kids, friends, Fun, Games, girls, hanging out, kids, learning, Life, Neighbors, old days, parents, Play, Podcasts, Social Media, sons, teens
Posted in Family, Friends, Neighborhood
Posted in Family, Friends, Neighborhood
Show 42: The Pilots Part 1. Meet the women who keep us straight.
Meet the Pilots. Our better halves. The beautiful ladies who did not run out of the wedding ceremony screaming. The women who serve as our concience, our partners, and our loves. Stephanie, Celeste, and Susan come for a 2 part…
Tagged with: beer, communication, dad, daugthers, discipline, emotion, fatherhood, Life, mom, parents, Pilots, Podcasts, Social Media, sons, teen drivers, teenager, teens, Wife, wives
Posted in Bride, Dating, Family, Wives
Posted in Bride, Dating, Family, Wives
Show 39: Leverage, What to use when all the discipline runs out?
We all get to that point. No amount of punishment, threats or actual, gets through to our progeny. They continue on a path that we may not agree with, whether it is not performing well in school, or not following…
Tagged with: choice, communication, dad, daugthers, disagreement, discipline, education, emotion, Facebook, fatherhood, hanging out, Homework, learning, Leverage, motivation, overworked, parents, School, Social Media, sons, teenager, teens
Posted in Discipline, Fatherhood, Parents
Posted in Discipline, Fatherhood, Parents
Show 38: The Old Man and The Cargo Shorts
Cargo shorts. Ugly perhaps, but quite functional. Better than carrying a murse I say! The Beer Dads were subjected to Paul ranting about cargo shorts/pants this week. There were compelling arguments for all sorts of styles, cargo and plain, but…
Show 35: 1, 2, 3, 4! Plus Marrying one off with Bo Gray IV
This week we have a special guest, known to many around our fair city of Winston Salem! By day, he is in the stock brokerage business, but it is his free time that we wanted to hear about! Our…
Tagged with: Advice, Bride, Daughters, daugthers, emotion, family dynamics, Father, FOB, kids, Marriage, MOB, photograph, photographer, wedding, Winston Salem, wives
Posted in Bride, Dad, Daughters, Emotions, Fatherhood, Wedding
Posted in Bride, Dad, Daughters, Emotions, Fatherhood, Wedding
Show 34: The Crazy, Perfect Life with Dara Kurtz
This week Dara Kurtz of the blog Crazy Perfect Life joins Tim, Jon, and Paul to discuss her successful battle against breast cancer, how she and her husband handled the most horrible year, and how through it all, they kept parenting.…
Tagged with: breast cancer, cancer, chemotherapy, communication, crazy, dad, Dara, daugthers, fatherhood, friends, health, Kurtz, Life, mastectomy, mom, parents, perfect, perserverance, radiation, reconstruction, sickness
Posted in Daughters, Motivation, Parents
Posted in Daughters, Motivation, Parents
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