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What Age Should Your Kids Start Hearing Your Taste in Music? Immediately

What Age Should Your Kids Start Hearing Your Taste in Music? Immediately

It is quite the feeling when you play one of your all-time favorite songs for your kid and they love it. When this happens — no matter their age (or yours) — you and your child add another layer to your ongoing bond.

Traditionally speaking, the “acceptable” songs many parents share, recite, and make a big deal about with their 0 to 3 year-old’s are nursery rhymes. This has always seemed…

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Enjoying The Finer Things of 2020: a Q&A with My 3 Year-Old Girl & a Soft Rock Classic

Enjoying The Finer Things of 2020: a Q&A with My 3 Year-Old Girl & a Soft Rock Classic

Recently, I was driving around town with my daughter, jamming out to the pleasing sounds of Steve Winwood’s “The Finer Things.” This musical gem officially became the Summer’s most requested song from my backseat. It also helped spark the inspiration I needed to begin writing this post — one that proudly ends a three month blogging hiatus for me at The DadaDADiest.

Working through uncertain…

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A Visit to the Pulse Nightclub Memorial with My Daughter

A Visit to the Pulse Nightclub Memorial with My Daughter

Roughly six months before my daughter was born — on the early morning of June 12th, 2016 — the unfortunate events of the Pulse Nightclub Shooting took place in Orlando, Florida. 49 innocent people were slain. 58 others were injured. Hundreds of lives were changed forever.

Fast-forward to almost four years later. I was driving through downtown Orlando with my daughter, brainstorming about a…

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SMELLS LIKE covidnineTEEN SPIRIT

Nirvana’s song “Smells like Teen Spirit” has touched generations of people. Rolling Stone magazine has even ranked it as the ninth greatest song of all-time.

Kurt Cobain’s song lyrics to all of Nirvana’s songs are open for interpretation, as they are all non-linear jumbles of thoughts and words that rhyme, rather than filled with specific statements or stories.

With that said, the…

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My Wonderful & Illiterate 3 Year-old Read a Story to Me: A Showcase of her Imagination & Memories

— Friday, March 20th, 2020 —

It’s not her fault that she can’t read — she’s three. I’m not even sure she comprehends that she actually doesn’t know how to read, and that’s OK.

I asked my little girl to read to me.

I wanted to see what she had to say and how she said it.

I gave her my full attention, to assist her with gaining confidence in her narration skills.

Perhaps…

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A Trip Down Memory Lane -- Looking Back on that one Time my Daughter Became a Bubble Guppy for a Day

A Trip Down Memory Lane — Looking Back on that one Time my Daughter Became a Bubble Guppy for a Day

— Sunday, April 7th, 2019 —

My 2 year-old’s current obsession is the Bubble Guppies. She will watch this show for hours if I let her. Since 2 year-old’s don’t comprehend what having an idol is quite yet, I concluded my girl idolizes Molly, Gil, and the rest of the Guppies due to her severe case of BubbleGupGup Fever.

Today, as my little girl and I sat on the couch watching these…

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How to Interrogate a Toddler: a Sit-down Interview with my Daughter

How to Interrogate a Toddler: a Sit-down Interview with my Daughter

Anyone who has a child knows that young kids say some really funny and impressive things. Young children have a lovely innocence about the way they see our world. My kiddo is no different. Chatting with my daughter is always unique, and her unintended humor is refreshing.

She’s three years-old. Like all toddlers, my daughter has a lack of experience in every area of life and an…

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Eli Manning Retires & I Keep Dreaming -- A Reflectional Piece

Eli Manning Retires & I Keep Dreaming — A Reflectional Piece

— January 24, 2020 —

Meeting Eli

Yesterday evening, I came across the news that Eli Manning is calling it quits as a quarterback in the NFL — the 39 year-old is retiring after 16 seasons. Hearing this triggered an abundance of nostalgic feelings inside of me, most likely because a little less than 16 years ago, I met Eli Manning. It was June of 2004 and roughly two months earlier, the…

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Rosanna the Elf: Wild Nights, Hidden Days, & Selfies on Shelfies

Rosanna the Elf: Wild Nights, Hidden Days, & Selfies on Shelfies

This year, an unnamed Elf began paying my daughter a visit every morning. On the first morning, the elf whispered to me that she was very sad because her rotten elf parents never gave her a name.

Wanting to help, I asked my little girl: “what should we name this elf?!?… THE ELF?!?… ELFVIS?!?!… ELFVIRA?!?!” Without even giving my dadjoke-names a courtesy fake-laugh, she replied: “mmmm, how…

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A Dad, a Daughter, and a Deadline: The Diary of a Potty-Training Power-Couple

A Dad, a Daughter, and a Deadline: The Diary of a Potty-Training Power-Couple

Introduction

I’m 37 and I’m a dude. I have a two year-old daughter named Mallory — she’s not a dude. A few months back, I decided I was tired of her droppin’ bombs and wizzin’ all over herself like a big diaper wearing baby. I did a little research to formulate a potty-training plan, and concluded I would have my daughter out of diapers within 48 hours.

Once it was game time, I coached and…

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