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Allan Shedlin
Mar 2, 2023
The Importance of Parents Being There – REALLY Being There
DCG Founder Allan Shedlin addresses how parents can help children during the mental health crisis that's hitting teenagers especially hard.
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Allan Shedlin
Oct 19, 2022
Our Chaotic Parenting Times Have Given Birth to a New Syndrome – HPS
DCG Founder Allan Shedlin describes a new parenting affliction that seems to exist wherever and whenever parents and children are together.
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Allan Shedlin
Jun 8, 2022
Being A Dad Gave Me The Best Creative Fuel To Launch A "Space Cadet"
Four-time Grammy Award-nominated musician Justin Roberts shares how his creative process has changed since becoming a dad.
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Allan Shedlin
Mar 23, 2022
Our World Opens Up When We Let Our Kids Lead the Way
In his new book, Anthony Fleg shares what he's learned as his kids challenge and inspire him to see pandemic life from a fresh perspective.
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Allan Shedlin
Dec 30, 2021
2022: No Grinches Allowed
DADvocacy Consulting Group founder Allan Shedlin urges dads to focus on what matters most in the New Year: kids and kindness.
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Allan Shedlin
Nov 3, 2021
Spoiler: “Learning Loss” Is A COVIDious Myth
DCG Founder Allan Shedlin explains how "learning loss" is a COVIDious myth & teachers/parents should focus on kids' pandemic learning gains.
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Allan Shedlin
Oct 27, 2021
Annie's Poem: A Child Copes With Pandemic Anxiety
9-year-old Annie has turned to poetry during the COVID pandemic to help express and cope with the difficult things she's been feeling.
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Allan Shedlin
Aug 25, 2021
Zoom to Classroom: How to Prepare Your Child For Returning to School In the New Normal
Author and youth rights advocate Anna Gilchrist provides parents with tips on how to help children adjust to returning to school in person.
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Allan Shedlin
Aug 10, 2021
How To Wrangle Those End-of-Summer Butterflies In COVIDious Times
DCG's Allan Shedlin helps parents talk to kids about why it's normal to feel anxious at start of a school year, especially during a pandemic
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Allan Shedlin
Jul 14, 2021
How Work-At-Home Dads are Reinventing Fatherhood and Reaping the Benefits
ThirdPath Institute founder Jessica DeGroot shares findings from Father's Day webinar showing how at-home dads are reinventing fatherhood.
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Allan Shedlin
Jun 30, 2021
Welcome Home to Being A Dad
U.S. Marine Corps veteran and podcaster Ben Killoy finally found his comfort zone as a dad by asking himself one simple question.
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Allan Shedlin
Dec 31, 2020
May 2020 Silver Linings Energize Daddying Hope for 2021
For our final Daddying blog of the year, we offered each member of our DADvisory Team an opportunity and invitation.
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Allan Shedlin
Dec 10, 2020
Give and Receive the Gift Of Reading Together This Holiday Season
I remember my mom reading to me almost every day as a kid. I remember hearing her voice, warm, energetic, and song-like...
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Allan Shedlin
Nov 23, 2020
Have A Thankful Thoughtsgiving 2020: Through the River and Over the Woods
Despite the sadness and disappointment being magnified as our holiday plans are rethought, I battle to have my positive nature prevail.
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Allan Shedlin
Oct 14, 2020
Our COVIDious Crescendo
My basically-optimistic nature continues to prevail and believe that we are fitfully inching toward a decrescendo, a COVID convalescence...
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Allan Shedlin
Sep 30, 2020
The Superpower of Being Present
Think of the children in your life. Their superpower is living in the moment. COVID-19 implores us to be more like our children.
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Allan Shedlin
Sep 2, 2020
Nurturing the New End-of-Summer Butterflies
When the cocoon of childhood summers past opened into a more predictable fall, the emergent butterfly was able to unfurl its new wings & fly
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Allan Shedlin
Jul 29, 2020
Mommying Helps Me Cope with COVID-19 Isolation and Dad Grief
My own personal grief has been set aside while we mourn so many things before COVID19. The pandemic made me be the mother I dreamed of being
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Allan Shedlin
Jul 22, 2020
A Pandemic May Be the Best Time to Discover the Freedom of Limits
When limits are consistently and clearly in place, they provide a sense of freedom that doesn’t exist when boundaries are unclear...
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Allan Shedlin
Jul 8, 2020
Finding Zen in the Art of Creative COVID-19 Lockdown Projects
Facing long-term confinement with kids/family got me thinking about best ways to pass time at home during COVID-19 lockdown. We chose art.
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