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May 2020 Silver Linings Energize Daddying Hope for 2021

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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Give and Receive the Gift Of Reading Together This Holiday Season

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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Have A Thankful Thoughtsgiving 2020: Through the River and Over the Woods

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 15, 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

Oct 1, 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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Nurturing the New End-of-Summer Butterflies

Allan Shedlin

Sep 3, 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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Mommying Helps Me Cope with COVID-19 Isolation and Dad Grief

Allan Shedlin

Jul 30, 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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A Pandemic May Be the Best Time to Discover the Freedom of Limits

Allan Shedlin

Jul 23, 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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Finding Zen in the Art of Creative COVID-19 Lockdown Projects

Allan Shedlin

Jul 9, 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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Allan Shedlin

Jun 25, 2020

An Ode To Baseball Dads

One of the best parts of being in this baseball family community is that I’ve had many chances to witness father-son relationships.

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Fathering The Sickness (AKA Ministering to the Sick)

Allan Shedlin

Apr 8, 2020

Fathering The Sickness (AKA Ministering to the Sick)

Dad wouldn’t have done anything different in a pandemic. He was always stockpiling essentials.

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Allan Shedlin

Apr 1, 2020

COVID-19 and The New Abnormal

Life in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak is neither a “new normal” nor an “old normal.” No, we are living in abnormal times.

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A Kid's View on Coronavirus: It's A Powerful Lesson in Gratitude

Allan Shedlin

Mar 17, 2020

A Kid's View on Coronavirus: It's A Powerful Lesson in Gratitude

Guest post from U. of New Mexico physician & Dadvisor Dr. Anthony Fleg who considers parenting lessons learned from the coronavirus crisis.

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May 2020 Silver Linings Energize Daddying Hope for 2021

Give and Receive the Gift Of Reading Together This Holiday Season

Have A Thankful Thoughtsgiving 2020: Through the River and Over the Woods

Our COVIDious Crescendo

The Superpower of Being Present

Nurturing the New End-of-Summer Butterflies

Mommying Helps Me Cope with COVID-19 Isolation and Dad Grief

A Pandemic May Be the Best Time to Discover the Freedom of Limits

Finding Zen in the Art of Creative COVID-19 Lockdown Projects

An Ode To Baseball Dads

Fathering The Sickness (AKA Ministering to the Sick)

COVID-19 and The New Abnormal

A Kid's View on Coronavirus: It's A Powerful Lesson in Gratitude

AJ Jacobs Braved the Internet to Bolster His Daddy Wisdom

Was 2020 Real or Just Virtual?

May 2020 Silver Linings Energize Daddying Hope for 2021