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I’m Back to Blogging Again.

22 Tuesday Jan 2013

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I want to say first of all that I’m back to blogging again as well as

Happy New Year!!!

Yes, I know I’m a few days late and I’m not going to make a list of excuses for why.  I have been a busy dad over the holiday season and everything is getting back to normal of at least as normal as things can get.  I am also changing the content of my blog a little bit.  It will still be about being a busy dad, but it will be more free-flowing and less like a professional post from a newspaper.  Two reasons for the changes are that you can see my emotions in my posts and it is a whole lot easier to write.  I will still edit my posts but I will not try to make it look like something you read out of a newspaper.

I’m going to write on my blog more often than I had in the past.  I even have it as one of my resolutions for this year.  I’ll also keep writing as a secondary since my family and my religion is always first one my list.  This will cause some of my posts on holidays to be before or after the holiday has happen.   Other than that you should be able to see me writing on here.

I have already created my resolutions for the year 2013 as I previously mentioned above and I’m going to try my hardest to keep them this time.  I’ll list them in a different post later on.  This will give me another post for this week.

This has been a bad start of me so far this year.  I lost an uncle this past weekend.  My family was close to each other growing up and I remember going to his house a lot or doing activities with his family.  He will be missed.

On a good note, my family is healthy and not sick for the first time in a couple months.  I believe we finally gotten rid of the sicknesses that we picked up at Thanksgiving time.  Also fantasy football is now over so I don’t have that tying up my time as well.  I poorly manage my time with it and spending my time with my family.  This fall will be a little bit different.  I also started a blog about my fantasy football side at I will start posting to called “Fantasy Football Glory” at http://fantasyfootballglory.wordpress.com/.

I’m also reading the bible with my oldest son since he asked me to this with him this week which is not part of my resolution for this year.  This came out of nowhere and he was not coached to ask either.  It allows me to spend one on one time with him as I try to do for each of my kids and wife.

So I’ll wrap this post up and hope everyone has an awesome and prosperous 2013.

The Importance of Family Dinner | Healthy Eats – Food Network Healthy Living Blog

04 Thursday Oct 2012

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Check out this article on the Food Network blog.

The Importance of Family Dinner | Healthy Eats – Food Network Healthy Living Blog.

Why I Wrote “Be a Courageous Dad”

15 Friday Jun 2012

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I wrote a post a few months ago called “Be a Courageous Dad” and I got the following question in my comments section from nickvanval.

“Great post! What made you write this?”

At that time I gave the following response.

“Children today are getting away with too much and getting into trouble more often. Majority of people that are in prison didn’t have a father or had a father that didn’t really do anything in the family so they got there fathering from someone else.

Having a strong father presence in a family allows kids to be raised and taught values, ethics, and just how to be a father. The bible has taught me as well as a couple other blogs on how to start being a Courageous Dad.”

I want to go a little bit deeper on my response and decided to turn it into a post on my blog. I do believe that kids do get away with too much than when we were kids. It seems we are hearing how kids bully kids and also how they are committing more crime on the television and in the papers more frequently than in the past. This is a trend that is growing more as the economy is still in the toilet. The question is why this is happening.

I read several sources report that they did a survey in prisons to see why inmates commit crimes and got some results that was shocking to me. Majority of the inmates didn’t have a father figure or a father in their lives growing up. This was because they are in a single parent family or their fathers were always way from the house due to work or other issues. Without a father figure in the family, the kids turn to other people to be that father figure and majority of these people don’t have the kid’s best interest in mind.

Having a strong father presence in a family allows kids to be raised and taught values, ethics, and just how to be a leader and father in their families. This is a big problem that some people or groups of people are trying to fix by teaching fathers to be good fathers to their children. Mark Merrill President of Family First, AllProDad with Tony Dungy, fatherhood.org, and Fathers.com are just a small list of people or groups that can help men become great leaders in their families.

I highly recommend reading a book called “All Pro Dad: Seven Essentials to be a Hero to Your Kids” by Mark Merrill to start with. Why this book? Because I’m currently reading this book and getting a lot of good and helpful information from it. I really enjoy reading this book and I’ll let you know more after I finished it.

Here is a link for more information about Mark Merrill’s book.

My New Book – All Pro Dad: Seven Essentials to be a Hero to Your Kids « Mark’s Blog.

Every Parent Should Read This Post

06 Wednesday Jun 2012

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A friend of mine posted this on his Facebook account a few weeks ago and I feel it is important to re-post again.  The original source and origin is unknown.  If anybody knows this, please feel free to let me know so the right person or persons get the credit for writing this amazing poem.

This is so true in so many ways.  Parents take sports way to seriously and not let the kids play to have fun.  This is Little League games and they don’t get paid to play.  They play to have fun and be around a positive atmosphere and around friends they might not seen since school was out.  Think twice before being rude to any kids out there or even to your own child.  Remember, he’s just a little boy.

This goes towards girls as well as boys on the softball diamonds.

Below is the poem written out from above picture just in case you can’t read the sign.

HE IS JUST A LITTLE BOY

He stands at the plate,
with his heart pounding fast.
The bases are loaded,
the die has been cast.

Mom and Dad cannot help him,
he stands all alone.
A hit at this moment,
would send the Team home.

The ball meets the plate,
he swings and he misses.
There’s a groan from the crowd,
with some boos and some hisses.

A thoughtless voice cries,
strike out the bum.
Tears fill his eyes,
the game’s no longer fun.

So open your heart,
and give him a break.
For it’s moments like this,
a man you can make.

Please keep this in mind,
when you hear someone forget.
He is just a little boy,
and not a man yet.
{Source Unknown}

Other sites that talk about this poem are listed below.

Little League Baseball Sites
http://www.bridgetownbaseball.org/baseball.html

http://www.mountaintoparealittleleague.com/Baseball_Poems.html

Other Parent Sites
http://www.lifewithoutpink.com/2012/05/01/hes-just-a-little-boy/

http://www.cafemom.com/group/114201/forums/read/16509115/_Hes_just_a_little_boy_I_think_this_should_be_at_every_baseball_field_where_kids_play

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