Being a dad is hard work, being a great dad is even harder work – there is so much juggling going on I feel like I’m in the circus from time to time. Gotta balance the job/family/and your own sanity its a lot to handle. When you think about what dad wants sure he could use a new fancy Kodak Playsport video camera [Amazon] that we can take in the pool with the kids but that’s not enough give him something that he can have on his desk at work like a piece of art work. Give him a TROPHY!
No not one of those silly little league trophies they give to everyone for being a good sport and not quitting the team, when they were benched for the coach’s kid to get some extra playing time. I mean MAN TROPHY! I can already hear the sound of Tim Allen from his home improvement tv show of grrr grrr grrrr 🙂 you know what I’m talking about…
Check out this video – this thing is a beast!
FantasyTrophies.com [Link] was founded by Dave Mitri, nearly 15 years ago, when he sculpted the Armchair Quarterback, for his own fantasy football league, out of his garage in Cleveland, Ohio. He now produces trophies for nearly every fantasy related sport and has moved the operation to a shop in Brooklyn, NY where he continues to produce the highest quality, most original trophies for diehard fantasy sports fanatics.
The giveaway is this incredible trophy!
How to win it… Contest ends 11:59am EST. June 15, 2010.
You get 1 entry for placing a comment what would the plaque say and please use some method for us to contact you in the comment (twitter or email)
You get 1 extra entry for tweeting about this contest (you can do this daily). Must contain the following information:
@FantasyTrphies @dada_rocks – http://bit.ly/cTxUWF and you must also leave a comment with the link to your twitter message.
Example: I want to win a @FantasyTrphies for [person’s first name] from @dada_rocks – http://bit.ly/cTxUWF
You get 1 extra entry for becoming a FAN on facebook –facebook.com/DaDaRocks you must a comment that you’re a fan
Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or in a cave) the world is changing the role of Dad is changing. The Evolution of Dad(www.evolutionofdad.com) explores how fatherhood has evolved over time, what its impact has been on family and society, and how fatherhood will likely continue to change.
A filmmaker and screenwriter by trade, Glazer happily became the primary caregiver for hiskids, but quickly found himself having conflicted feelings about his new role. Realizing there has never been a documentary film to fully explore what it means to be an American dad, Glazer committed himself to the undertaking.
With expert commentary from leading sociologists, psychiatrists, and family law specialists, as well as profiling some of the most unique and heroic dads of the new millennium, The Evolution of Dad digs deep to uncover the challenges many of today’s fathers are facing and reveals how dads can make a stronger and more positive impact on family life and society as a whole.
As a result, the film is poised to challenge and potentially change many of the misconceptions that people have about what it means to be a father. Beyond its educational merit, Glazer believes that watching the film for many people will be both emotional and inspirational, allowing them to openly share their feelings about their own experiences with fatherhood.
How to win it… Contest ends 11:59pm EST. June 13th, 2010.
1 Lucky person will win the DVD of The Evolution of Dad! Tell us your favorite memory of your dad (or someone who was like a dad to you) and please include some method for us to contact you in the comment (twitter or email).
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NO SLEEP TO PARENTS! Sure the original Beastie Boys line was No Sleep to Brooklyn but I live in Manhattan so lets just leave it as No Sleep to Parents!
Marc hasn’t finished a solid night in weeks. He gets up for 5 minutes sips some water and back to bed… here’s the catch its not his bed. He’ll only get back to sleep in between Wifey and me. This is killer, it creates ZOMBIE MAMA & DADA. Sure Zombie DaDa Rocks still rocks but its totally rough…
We have the crib tent setup and that keeps Marc in the crib (so we’ve defeated the ninja) but we are now dealing with a child who when he wakes up, freaks out and wants out of the crib ASAP.
We’re starting to think of a keeping a toddler bed in our room and then slowly moving the bed to his own room. We always try to set good ground rules but when it comes to a screaming/crying kid anytime after midnight till 8am –
I’m the sucker, I just fold like a cheap suit.
I really cant stand to hear/see him cry and when he knows I’m around he wont give up his tantrum like he would if it was just Wifey. What would your suggestion be on the sleeping through the night (in his own room and his own crib/bed)? Whats got you walking around like a zombie?
Living in New York City you quickly become aware of the price of space and just how precious it is… Trust those rumors of 800 square feet apartments for as much as a mortgage payment somewhere else it is completely true. The thing that is almost universal with parents these days is the need for different types of strollers. We have had 3 strollers and currently only use two… a bugaboo that is great for walking around the city and a maclaren which is pure mobile and lightweight (this isnt a stroller review post so I’m just leaving it at the simple facts of how/why we have two strollers). We use the bugaboo daily and maybe the maclaren twice or three times a week, so we had an issue with having two strollers always open in our hallway, once you enter the apartment all the time. In a moment that could only be fate – we received a mailer showing use the great use of the MetroTots Strollaway.
The Strollaway is a beast made out pure metal could support the weight of the bugaboo but we only use it for the maclaren. It works great and doubles as towel or clothes hook if need be. We use it over a bedroom door and collapse the stroller to hide it behind the door. we gain the footprint of a stroller back from the entrance to our apartment, which as you can imagine is a nice bonus in NYC.
The hardest part of the install was removing it from the packaging, since there is no screws or parts to assemble its ready to go out of the package.
For more information about the MetroTots Strollaway check their website [Link]
How to win it… Contest ends 11:59pm EST. June 3rd, 2010.
Win the MetroTots Strollaway! Tell us where you would hang your stroller and please include some method for us to contact you in the comment (twitter or email).
You get 1 extra entry for tweeting about this contest (you can do this daily). Must contain the following information: @dada_rocks – http://bit.ly/acK26S and you must also comment with the link to your twitter message.
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On Saturday night we put Marc to sleep – usually he cries for a moment then lays down and goes to sleep. When someone says usually it means that not what happen and that is the case here too. He cried for a minute or two and then I started hearing the crying getting closer, which I thought was odd. In to the living room walks Marc, no longer crying but still catching his breathe… he waddles around and pulls himself up onto the couch as if we were watching his TV show (Yo Gabba Gabba or Jack’s Big Music show or Dora) and not mine.
He did it again on Sunday and Monday so it wasnt a fluke thing and that gives us a few less options. The options we’ve come up with is to convert his crib into a toddler bed, leave his crib as is and try a crib tent, try to reason with him to stay in the crib (good luck with that one), and try to bribe him into staying in his crib (once again good luck with that one).
My wife and I have been talking it over but we’re not really sure which direction is the right way to go here. If we go with the toddler bed there are chances he’ll up in bed with us (which I hear is a whole horror story in itself). I also read on some Doctors blog that sometime crib tents can make the child fearful of confined spaces (sounds pretty horrible to me too). The discussion is on going and we both know you cant pause time to figure it out. We’ve been letting him get to the point of almost climbing out before we get him. Then he ends up staying a couple of hours with us.
No matter how much we love Marc he’s still a bed hog! Who usually ends up sleeping horizontal when we’re both vertical. I’m not sure which direction we’ll go in but it’ll be a fun ride – right?? What do you think we should do? Do you have another suggestion for us to try?
