By Daddy Clay November 28th, 2011

You’ve seen the apps drifting across the cityscape in the most recent commercial from Sprint. The one that ends with a cherubic kiddo, maybe 5 years old, playing with what we assume is his parent’s iPhone 4S as the voice over asks, “Why would anyone want to limit the iPhone?”

Did I hear that right?

What next? Disney touting parent-free cruises to Amsterdam?
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Tags: applications, Apps, at&t, cell, commercial, controls, Droid, Famigo, iphone, kids, limits, mobile, parental, parents, Safety, Sandbox, smartphone, Sprint, texting, tv, Verizon
Posted in Tech, Toys, discipline, eProofing

By Daddy Clay November 22nd, 2011

If you have a tween or a teen, you know what Beats by Dre are. And if this recent, breathless piece in the New York Times business section is right — there are going to be Benetton-hued, obscenely-priced headphones under a lot of trees this Christmas. While there is some debate about whether the sound quality of the Beats is crisp or craptastic, there is no doubt about one thing: Plug those ‘phones into an iPod, crank the volume, and your child can have permanent hearing damage in just two songs.
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Tags: Beats, BeatsByDre, christmas, controls, damage, DrDre, Dre, ears, eproof, eProofing, gifts, guide, hearing, ipod, kids, limiter, loss, Music, Nano, parental, review, Safety, Volume
Posted in Health, Tech, Toys, discipline, eProofing

By Daddy Brad November 15th, 2011

I got together via phone with my good buddies from the Cast of Dads the other night to discuss some modern day Fatherhood topics.  We jawed about Movember, the Occupy Movement and Christmas gifts as well as how to talk to your kids about troubling news they hear on the radio.  Somehow the conversation turned to the sophistication of snail mail junk mail.  Have you seen those postcards lately?

Take a listen:

COD#46

Topics discussed on this episode:

• The importance of Movember
• Goatees are for wimps
• It takes balls to grow a mustache
• Thanksgiving plans
• Penn State Reactions
• ProudToBeAPennStater.com
• The Occupy Movement
• The Daily Show covers Occupy Oakland riot
• Teaching kids about Occupy
• Capers on baked potatoes?
• The comedy of Rick Perry
• Bad Lip Reading
• Herman Cain BLR
• Incognito web surfing
• Christmas Shopping
• Marking up the Sears catalog
• US Post Office
• How smart junk mailers are getting
• The future of libraries

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Cast of Dads is a group of podcasting and blogging dads who gather to gab about fatherhood. The cast of dads includes C.C. Chapman, Jeffrey Sass, Max Kalehoff, Michael Sheehan, and Brad Powell, who collectively represent 13 kids from the youngest of babies to full grown adults. Each of them brings a unique perspective to being a father.

Tags: cast of dads, movember
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By Daddy Brad November 8th, 2011

Every year on the first day of November razors fall silent and men worldwide embrace their God given right to grow a sweet stache.  They do it not because a really big and honking soup strainer residing on an upper lip is the truest expression of power and virility, they do it to raise awareness of that nasty disease that effects so many of us; cancer.
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Tags: Men's Health, movember, prostate cancer
Posted in Fatherhood, Health