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Jim Carrey + Dr. Seuss is a math problem that most people have no problem solving. In the case of the live action The Grinch Who Stole Christmas it equaled a steaming pile of green eggs and suck. Now with Horton Hears a Who, Carrey has a second chance to charm our tiny hearts that have atrophied three-sizes-too-small from the various Hollywood Seuss debacles (did anyone see Cat in the Hat?), and by golly, this time it better be good.
I only caught the last few minutes of this interview on NPR today, but it sounds like a great interview of Greg! Go to the website and I think you can download a podcast/replay of it.
Direct Link: http://thestory.org/archive/the_story_273_Stay_At_Home_Dad.mp3/view
This article is from the Washington Post today.
Didn't know how many folks had heard about it. Wasn't in the Chicago Tribune as of yet (10/11/07, 1:15 CDT).
Kenny Curtis had a farm, e-i-e-i-o. On this farm he had a radio show....
Athomedad.org speaks with Kenny Curtis, DJ for “The Animal Farm” on XM Radio.
From Elmo, to Pigeon, to Knuffle Bunny with some stops with sheep and spying kids Mo Willems sits down (at his computer) with Athomedad.org to talk about his life in animation and children's books.
Philip Lerman is a middle-aged Bronx-native jewish "hippie", who co-produced the long-running fugitive series "America's Most Wanted". This subjective memoir is written proof that he is a big soft-hearted weak-willed lug of a guy. He loves his kid to near worship levels of emotional exxageration, and he seems to think that these sappy emotional anecdotes would be interesting to anybody other than his own immeidate family.
One of our regulars, Greg Barbera, was recently featured on American Public Media's "The Story" radio show. Greg and host Dick Gordon do a great job of discussing the experiences of a stay at home dad. Listen to the story here:
http://www.thestory.org/archive/the_story_273_Stay_At_Home_Dad.mp3/view
Grammy Award nominee Ralph's World gets on the phone for a chat with AtHomeDad.org. We cover a broad range of topics including the Wiggles, Rice Krispies, babysitting, righ tfield, Mozart, Purple Termites, and the Fillmore. See the full interview here.
I was excited to see that my local museum had invited a parenting author to give a dinner lecture for an audience of fathers. It seemed like something I should attend since it's my job, although the $40 price tag was way out of my budget. But then my soccer team coincidentally gave me $40 pre-paid credit card as a gift, and what better way to spend that money than to attend something that will help me to be a better parent?
The NE-WI-Dads had a record "catch" this week. Our 3rd annual "froggin!" trip to a local park in Green Bay, Wisconsin "netted" 11 frogs, one tadpole and one snapping turtle! This smashes the 2005 record of 6 frogs and 2 tadpoles and some gunk that looked like a frog until we put it in the bucket. The bottom of our bucket was nearly full when the 7 kids assisted the frogs back into the water with much sorrow on the part of the frog-loving kids. We even got our squeamish dad to actually hold a frog because his daughter flat-out refused. Way to go, whay to grow!
Jim Trelease, author of The Read Aloud Handbook (2006, Penguin), published the first version of this book on his own in 1979. Three years, and 20,000 copies, later Penguin Books offered to publish the Handbook. Trelease received his biggest boost, though, from a mention in a Dear Abby in 1983 which helped launch his book onto the New York Times Bestseller list where is stayed for seventeen weeks. The Handbook is in its sixth, and final, edition. Trelease will retire in 2008. His website is http://www.trelease-on-reading.com
Here are some highlights from my recent interview:
My Father Before Me, How Fathers and Sons Influence Each Other Through Their Lives, By Michael J. Diamond,
Non-Fiction/Self-Help
First of all let me say if you are in, thinking about, or have been in therapy and it has worked for you, GOOD FOR YOU, I think it is all about what works for you! Now that being said it was obvious that this book was written by a psychoanalyst, which is a profession that I think (and my Dad thinks this too) can be a lot of navel gazing, I think that self-examination is a good thing but it can also be overdone. There were some parts of the book that seemed so basic that I had trouble getting motivated to keep reading, but I think overall it had some pieces of insight that I had not thought about, which I think was the books main goal.
It was Friday, mid-November and the weather was unseasonably warm and balmy for this time of year. I was holed up at Dulles International Airport on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., waiting for a connecting flight to Kansas City.
It was two and a half hours into a delay before the flight attendant finally called for passengers to board.
After boarding the plane I introduced myself to the young woman sitting next to me and asked her about her travel plans. She was going to meet her boyfriend in Kansas City who was coming from Texas.
“And what about you?†she asked.
“I’m going to a convention for At Home Dads,†I told her.
“What?†she asked.
The Sunday Chicago Tribune featured dad-friendly websites including our beloved athomedad.org. Here's the article link:
Congratulations to our webmaster Mike.
Josh