Archive for the ‘Advice’ Category

Instant Popsicles

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Zoku Quick Pop MakerI’ve long been a fan of homemade ice cream.  Not homemade in the store…homemade in my home.  It’s really one of the easiest recipes to make…as long as you keep the ice cream maker in your freezer, you’re always ready to go.

But what about something a bit lower in fat?  Say a popsicle?  Every kid loves to make popsicles…but as every kid also knows, it JUST TAKES SOOOO LONG.

Enter the Zoku Quick Pop Maker.

Now I’ll admit that in comparison to  the plastic molds available for just a few bucks at any grocery store (and sometimes less than that at any garage sale), at $50, this is a pretty hefty investment, but the thing works like a charm and you cannot put a price on instant gratification for your children.

It has a base that you keep frozen, just like an ice cream maker.  You put the sticks in, pour in your flavor of choice and voila, in 10 minutes, you have 3 popsicles.  Do it again and in a bit longer than 10 minutes, you have 3 more (you can buy more sticks if you need more than six at a time).  For kids, they can sit there and actually watch the popsicles freeze, something you can’t of course do the conventional way unless your kids enjoy sitting in a walk-in freezer in a parka.  And as they start to freeze, you can use a straw to suck out the middle (which freezes last) and then fill the center with a different flavor juice (we’ve found great success with lemonade and limeade).

They’re for sale at Williams-Sonoma if you want to keep summer going for a few more months!

Disclosure: I bought this product without incentive using my own dollars, no freebie, no gift.  The review above is my own.

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Degrees Of Fatherhood

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

It is back to school time, and today my youngest child, my daughter, started at a new school.  This time, however, I didn’t have to pack her lunch, or walk her to the bus stop. I won’t be looking forward to any more parent teacher conferences or notes sent home about missed homework assignments. Nope.  Those days are officially over as today my daughter started college.  Daddy’s little girl has entered the land of higher education, as her older brothers have done before her, and as such, the proverbial ball is now in her court. I can encourage and inspire and advise, but in the end her school career, and her career thereafter, is now officially up to her.

Fatherhood Is An Education

Parenting is a series of never-ending milestones, and for many years we gauge our children’s growth and progress by their progression through school. From their first day at Pre-K to the day they don their caps and gowns for High School Graduation, through their schooling we see them grow from toddlers to teens, from mischief to maturity, from youngsters to young adults.  As they pass from grade to grade, we mark off yet another year in our quest to be the best parent we can.  Every graduation is filled with enormous pride, and just a little touch of sadness as we realize a teeny bit more of our work here is done.  Of course, the good news is that being a dad is forever, and as our kids grow older and move on to new phases of their lives, we are right by their side, entering a new degree of parenthood.

My daughter called me after her first day on “campus.”  She loved her first classes and was thrilled and excited.  But not as thrilled and excited as I am for her!

Jeff Sass is the proud dad of ZEO (Zach, 22, Ethan, 20 and Olivia, 18).  He is also a seasoned entertainment and technology exec and active social media enthusiast.  You can see more of Jeff’s writing at Sassholes! and Social Networking Rehab and you can listen to Jeff on the Cast of Dads podcast.

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Your Life: How to Be – Body Language Basics Part III– How To Read Someone’s Body Language

Friday, August 20th, 2010

So there you are, talking with a customer or a date, and you’re going on and on about whatever it is you’re talking about and making no note whatsoever that the person with whom you’re talking has his or her arms folded, is hunched over, is not making eye contact, and is generally fidgety.  You just keep on plowing ahead with your presentation or regaling her with stories of hijacking a busload of sorority girls (oh, right, that was me).

Stop.  You can’t establish a quality connection with someone if you don’t know how to read what they’re saying.  People can telegraph their thoughts and intentions only if you know how to interpret the message they’re sending.  In another installment of the Be Better Guys Body Language Basics, we’ll give a quick and dirty primer on how to tell what’s working and what’s not.

Positive Body Language Signals:  Say you’re meeting a customer for the first time and you’re a little nervous about it.  Or you’re meeting a woman for a date that you’ve only gone out with once before and you’re not sure how she feels about you.  If you see the following body language signs, keep on, soldier, you’re winning the battle:

  • Squarely focused eye contact with you.  No looking just past you for a better offer in the room or averting your gaze entirely.
  • Hands are open or clasped in front of the person.
  • A comfortable, relaxed posture in the chair.  Not tight, ramrod straight or anxiously jumpy.
  • Leaning forward into you when talking.
  • The other person’s body is squarely facing you.
  • Of course – plenty of smiling.

Negative Body Language Signals:  Take the scenarios from above but let’s say you’re sensing the following body language messages.  If you do get some negative signals you’ll want to change your plan of attack because what you’re doing currently ain’t flyin’:

  • Won’t look at you; won’t really even acknowledge you (you’re in risk of being irrelevant!)
  • Arms and hands are folded and locked down tight. 
  • Legs are crossed in a non-relaxed manner and looking totally closed down.
  • The other person’s body is hunched over and schlumpy OR is stiff, straight and uncomfortable.
  • Body is partially turned away from you.
  • Anxious repetitive leg bouncing or finger tapping on table.
  • Sitting way back in the chair.   As in, trying to keep further distance from you.
  • Of course – not much smiling at all.

The key is to know what the good and bad body language signs are and then have your antennae up to read them in every situation you encounter.  People frequently don’t even know they’re sending messages of disinterest or disapproval or anxiety.  They’re not consciously making the decision to be jumpy when they want to get the hell out of the room and away from you.  Conversely folks don’t consciously know they’re giving you the green light to move forward. But you know.  Because you know what to look for and now you know how to read!

Your Body: Fitness Tips for Summer 2010

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

I was in a hotel gym recently at 6 am, a time I’m normally just rolling over for another half-hour of sleep when I’m home but it was West Coast time so I was up way early, and I was noticing how most of the men, in their 30s and 40s, were just lollygagging on the cardio equipment.  You could see both men and women clearly just passing time jogging lightly or disinterestedly spinning the pedals.  And I thought, “Well, why would you even bother to show up to the gym if you’re not going to put any gusto behind it.”

Sure it was 6 am in Portland, Oregon and most folks should be still in their cushy beds instead of on the stair climber.  But still, folks, if you’re gonna bother to go to the gym, step on the pedal a little.  Here are some fitness tips that I’m working on to get ready for our family’s big beach outing in August:

Cardio intervals:   I don’t have an hour to hang-out  and dawdle on a treadmill.  You don’t either.  Instead warm up for 5 minutes at a moderate pace and right when you hit 5:00 on the timer, crank it up and go at 80-90% of your max effort for 30 seconds.  Then gear it back down for 60 seconds of cool-down.  Then gas it back up for another 30 seconds.  And throttle it back for another 60.  Do this 5 to 8 times of 90 seconds each.  Then cool down and get off the equipment.   You’re done.  Total time:  About 20 minutes.

Jump rope:  Jumping rope is a good alternative to mindlessly banging out intervals on cardio equipment.  Why?  ‘Cause it’s hard to sustain and it’s a full-body workout.  Try grabbing a rope and jumping for a minute or two straight.  It’s hard.  You’ll be sucking wind after 90 seconds straight.  Vary the pace.  Start out at an even tempo and then go faster by alternating lifting you knee up to hip height – like you’re running in place except with a jump rope.  Alternate skipping on one leg.  Go 10 minutes only stopping when you mess up.  Great leg workout , plus shoulders, arms and core benefit, too.  Oh, and your heart.

Flexibility:  Guys in their 30s start getting stiffer.  I don’t mean THAT kind of “stiffer.”  I mean you sit all day and your body starts to settle.  Keep limber so you don’t throw out your back lifting three sacks of groceries or picking up your 4-year-old.  Or your woman.   Whatever stretching you do, focus on your hamstrings and hips.  That’s where most back pain and knee pain can be alleviated, with loose legs.

A strong butt:  Your butt is more than your center of gravity.  It’s also more than something you work on so women will check you out.  A strong butt is your core.  It is the key to reducing lower back pain and knee pain by shouldering much of the “heavy lifting” you do in your day-to-day. Focus on deadlifts (both straight-leg and bent-leg), half-squats and variations on lunges.  The key is to focus your mind on what your butt’s doing so it’s fully-engaged in the movement.  Give it a month and it will look good in trunks.

More core, but crunch-less:  Lately I’ve been reading that the key to building core strength is NOT by doing crunches for 20 minutes.  In fact, doing much movement at all is not as beneficial as holding a plank for 30-60 seconds.  Planks are simple:  get in push-up position with your core tight.  Lower yourself on to your elbows. Then hold it.  Don’t move.  30-60 seconds.  Then rotate 90 degrees on to one elbow and do a side plank.  30-60 seconds.  Then over to the other side. Try that for 5 minutes – you’ll be schvitzin’!

Bonus Tip:  Stronger forearms.  All the typing we do all day weakens our forearm muscles, which means your grip when you to go shake hands or grab a heavy rock in your yard gets weaker.  Don’t neglect ‘em.  Do a few sets of forearm curls each week to keep your strength up.  Also when you grip a barbell, grip it tight.  That engages your forearm muscles more so you get multiple benefits from your usual bench press.

Infant Stool Illustrations By The Inestimable Mrs J.D.Z. Chase

Monday, August 16th, 2010

infant stool of 1907

Sure, she produced, for the purposes of diagnosis and education, the hand-drawn illustrations of the contents of various infant diapers included in Dr. Harry Lowenburg's 1916 A practical treatise on infant feeding and allied topics, for physicians and students. This much we know from flickr, where artist Martin Bromirski posted a selection of her work almost four years ago.

And we know from the credits in Dr. Otto Hensel's 1905 text, The Urine and Feces in Diagnosis, of Mrs Chase's specialty in deft depictions of dung.

But her illustration career seems highly circumscribed. Of her eight current citations on Google Books, six date from between 1900 and 1907. One is from 1916. The last, which garnered the greatest praise ["There are thirty-one full-page illustrations covering vaginal hysterectomy, beautifully drawn by JDZ Chase."] was published in The Therapeutic Gazette in 1927. Alas, it is unavailable online.

Aha, in the preface to Dr. Charles Prevost Grayson's The diseases of the nose, throat, and ear (1906), we find she executed her drawings at "the Pepper Laboratory of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania," the nation's first institution of microbiology to combine research and clinical work. Grayson was a leading laryngologist with Penn, but not within the Pepper Lab, so perhaps he sought Mrs. Chase's work out.

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Not so fast. Though the illustrations are clearly signed by J.D.Z. Chase, Dr. William G Spiller thanks one "Mrs P.P. Chase" for the illustrations accompanying his analysis of a brain edema published in Brain: a journal of neurology Vol. 22 (1899).

And look, a Google Books search for Mrs. P.P. Chase not only fills the gaps in her resume, but it overflows with praise for her work and process. From the preface to Dr. Barton Cooke Hirst's Atlas of operative gynecology (1919), which, 1927 hysterectomies notwithstanding, sounds like Mrs. Chase's opus:

These illustrations have been made, after repeated observation of the operations as they were performed, by the artist, Mrs. PP Chase. This method enables even the student without previous operative experience to comprehend modern operative technic.
The text has been subordinated to the illustrations, saving the reader's time and lighteneing the burden of obtaining a grasp of the subject. [emphasis added]
I will leave you to study Mrs. Chase's episiotomazing 165 full-page, full-color plates [!] at your own pace.

So Mrs. PP/JDZ Chase's remarkable career unfolds, from early tentative sketches of brains in a jar to a commanding contribution in what sounds like a milestone in the treatment of female reproductive health. Do we know any more than when we stared, slightly freaked out, into that diaperful of meconium? A little, but not much.

How to Be: How to Connect with People

Friday, August 13th, 2010

As part of my job many many times I have to walk into situations where I don’t know a soul.  I’ve got no wingmen in the room and no “friendlies” hanging out in the corner waiting to advance and warmly welcome me into a meeting or conference.

Sometimes it’s just me.  So I’ve had to develop some fast tactics on how to establish a connection with folks I don’t know but either want or need to know.  And it ain’t easy.  And it doesn’t work 100% of the time; I’m not gonna be so bold as to say that “I can connect with anyone anywhere anytime.”  What I will say is these techniques – while not being groundbreaking or revolutionary…or even all that unique – work.  They’ve worked for me and I stand by them. I have no choice.  I go into situations with new individuals constantly as part of my job so you do what you have to to get the play made.

Let me also add that these tips work at work and at the bar.  Connecting is connecting and either you make the effort to do it or hope you’re just so excellent that people will want to connect with you.  Right…didn’t think so.  You’d better read on.

But first – a story:  So when I was working with the US Air Force as a customer I walked into a 2-star General’s office with whom I had an appointment.  I went to see her because I’m a believer – as a sales guy – to meet as many executives as possible even if what I sell doesn’t relate to what they do.  Why?  Because sometimes that executive will come to your aid if they see something in you or your “pitch” that they can use to make their job easier.  I was selling software; the General I was seeing fixes airplanes.  No relation right?  What am I going to talk about?  She barely looks up as I entered; I’m sure she was thinking “What in G–’s name are we going to talk about for 60 minutes with this guy?”  First think I notice when I walk in is tons of Redskins stuff all around the office – photos on the wall and the Doug Williams Wheaties box (that I also have) on her desk next to a Darrell Green bobblehead.  EXCEPT WE’RE IN ST. LOUIS!  We’re not in DC where you’d expect to see this stuff!  So to warm up the discussion I mention that I’m a Skins season ticket holder and what do we think of our quarterback situatin (awful as always).  We go on for 10 minutes on the Skins.  No mention of work at all.  As that conversation winds down she says “Ok let’s get down to business but that was fun.  How can I help you?”  How can she help me?!  For starters I realized we had connected.  From there we had a great discussion and planned out a pilot project we could start.  And this was when I walked in wondering how we would ever connect.  She turned out to be a big advocate for me a year later when a big software purchase was being considered.  Finally the Redskins did something right for me for a change!!

The “interpersonal” connections are where relationships start.  Learning from the story above notice how I always try to find something we can latch on to that makes the person I’m meeting with WANT to keep talking with me.  I can talk about most anything – sports or where someone lives and grew up or about kids or about places we’ve travelled to – it doesn’t matter. What matters is that most people don’t know HOW to make that first connection.  It’s the interpersonal link that gets  you in the game.  It’s what you do next that keeps you in the game.

Focus and be in the moment. The best way to lose someone after you just made that initial connection is to let your eyes or your mind wander around the room or the office or the bar looking for the next person to whom you want to move on.  No way.  When people do that to me I shut down and turn them off.  People will do that to you too if you don’t stay “present” in the conversation.  Great eye contact is key; look into a person’s iris and try to determine the color of it.  That keeps you focused on the face and not prone to drift.

People are more interested in talking about themselves than hearing about you. OK so everyone knows this.  But how do you DO something about it?  Try this – so when you meet someone at his or her office say you start out asking “So how long have you been in this position?”  When the person answers you can ask “What role were you performing before?” then “What encouraged  you to move?”  or “How do you like this position?” or “Do you have a more direct line to senior management?” or I DON’T CARE WHAT YOU ASK!  The point is to start the conversation and then keep it going by asking logical questions that enable you to learn about the person.  Ask more question than you ever thought possible.  Once you do that you can….

Bring up something in a conversation that was mentioned earlier. Doing this shows you were paying attention and shows that you’re a thoughtful individual by connecting together something the person mentioned earlier to something relevant at the current point of discussion.   So mention later about something that came up earlier about where the person lived or make a joke about the Steelers.  Just use the info you’ve been given to keep the connection moving along.

People love to hear their names. Don’t do a “So Joe when you first came to the job Joe did you have an immediate impact Joe or did it take some time for you to get comfortable in the position Joe?”  That’s overdoing it and it’s creepy.  Just use the person’s name maybe every paragraph or two of discussion.  Every now and then.  People appreicate it and it helps you remember them in the future when you spot them in 10 months at a conference and don’t become overcome with the “now who the hell IS that again?”

Don’t be afraid to be funny. That is if you have the capacity to be funny.  I don’t mean reciting a line from “The Hangover” funny.  I mean being self-deprecating in a situation or a meeting where you poke fun at yourself instead of at the other person.  Witty remarks are great.  For example I was at a party last night and a colleague said “So how’s your year going?”  My response “You know it’s going good.  Not as good as Kobe Bryant’s year but also not as bad as the CEO from British Petroleum!”  The woman cracked up.  And I don’t even think that’s my best schtick!  But point is it’s within context.  Let yourself be funny when meeting people because it warms them up to you.  Laughing softens the formality and “hardness” of business meetings or any meetings for that matter.   Ease the tension and – within context of the situation – say something funny. You’d be surprised how immediately that can warm things up.

Here’s a tip I learned years ago by a Master Connector – when you’re meeting someone in another city whom you’ve never previously met pick up a copy of the local newspaper and scan it over breakfast. See something interesting? Say the town’s high school football team is going to States or there’s been record heat in the town for 2 weeks or there’s an upcoming election for mayor.  Mention it.  Just a quick point to drop into conversation early and get things moving.  I use this all the time and it works.

Why does making a connection matter?  Because most people stink at it.  Yep I said it.  Most people do not know how to improvise in a situation to make a connection stick.  If you apply some or all of these road-tested techniques you can separate yourself from all the other dingdongs out there that can’t get beyond “Hello my name is…Putz.”

David Boris is co-creator of Be Better Guys. He is not a putz, normally.

Cast of Dads #29: From Dudes To Doggs…

Friday, August 13th, 2010

One of the fun things about getting together with the Cast of Dads is that sooner or later each of us gets the chance to share an embarrassing moment…  Or maybe that’s just me who keeps sharing goofy moments?  Well, if it is me, this episode is no exception as I dive into a poorly sung rendition of one of my favorite childhood lullabies. Lullaby notwithstanding, I doubt this show  will put you to sleep as we cover topics as diverse as “negotiated infidelity,” Dude Ranches, sexy Katy Perry and Snoop Dogg as a Dad.

You can LISTEN TO CAST OF DADS Episode 29 HERE.

Topics discussed in this episode include:

If you have been enjoying the Cast of Dads podcast, please tell your friends about the show and have them subscribe to either our direct feed or via iTunes.  Also, please leave us a review in iTunes!

Cast of Dads is a group of podcasting and blogging dads who gather to gab about fatherhood. The cast of dads includes C.C. ChapmanJeffrey SassMax KalehoffMichael Sheehan, and Brad Powell, who collectively represent 13 kids from the youngest of babies to full grown adults. Each of them brings a unique perspective to being a father.

Jeff Sass is the proud dad of ZEO (Zach, 22, Ethan, 20 and Olivia, 18).  He is also a seasoned entertainment and technology exec and active social media enthusiast.  You can see more of Jeff’s writing at Sassholes! and Social Networking Rehab and you can listen to Jeff on the Cast of Dads podcast.

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Your Life: Sex and Relationships – The Throw-Back Date

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

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Couples Rekindle Ok, say you’ve been with your girl for a year or two. Or in my case, married for 12 years (that feel like 60, oy!).  Remember there was a key date you had that just killed? The date where you went to a bar on a Sunday afternoon in the rain and killed two bottles of wine while watching folks running for cover on the street? Or the date where you went and saw a classic movie outside that you still talk about today? Or the hotel you stayed in that first time together that kicked your relationship into full-gear?

Every relationship had that “key date,” the thing you two did that brought you two closer together and move your closeness from 4th gear to 5th. So here’s a concept:  go back and do it again.

Why?  Because nostalgia counts for a ton in a relationship to reinforce the bond you two have. For example, if you haven’t stayed at that hotel in 7 years, book a night there and do a get-away and eat at the same restaurant you ate at the first time and go to the same bar where you took in the cover band. It’ll totally kick-in the nostalgia vibes for both of you and you’ll find yourselves even more deeply into each other.

You see, we all thrive on shared experiences.  It’s not just enough to have a bottle of wine in the rain on a Sunday afternoon.  We all do that every Sunday.  It’s having it with someone whom you can share the experience with that makes it special. Particularly if that Sunday afternoon was really memorable for you both. Maybe you had fun conversation or it was the first time you truly realized you both dug each other or you the waitress have you a free appetizer or whatever. The point is that it was special. And you remember it even to this day.

But it was 10 years ago. So go back.  It won’t be exactly the same experience as it was a decade earlier.  Which is what makes it even better. You can talk about where you were ten years ago and what’s better about where you are today.  It’ll cue her emotions. Yours, too.

It kicks in your memory drive and what it really does is show you how far you two have come since. It reinforces your commitment because you shared that experience 10 years ago together. And you’re still together.

There’s a restaurant in D.C. that has since changed ownership a few times an it’s too bad.  Because it was the place we used to go when we were first dating to commemorate the first snowfall of every winter.  We probably did three of those dinners over the first three years of our relationship and spent waaaay more money than we had to blow on a meal.  The food was tremendous but it was the ambience that made it.  We don’t go back because it’s not the same place it used to be.  But even driving by the joint today triggers our memories and we start talking about the dinners we had during those first years together.

Inevitably we drive directly to a new place and create new memories there.   And if it’s a particularly good night, we’ll go back to re-create it.

It Takes A Playgroup To Raise An Only Child

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

The Wall Street Journal reports that the parents of several only children have created a once-a-week playgroup to socialize them. This is now or will be a trend, seeing as how some people only have one kid.

How will this turn out? Could we go ahead and look at China, which has all but cornered the world market on only children for the last three decades? No, apparently we could not.

But from my limited observation, no amount of playgroup conflict negotiation can compare to the endless sturm und drang of having a sibling around 24/7/365. But it might be enough to convince some folks that one kid is puh-lenty.

UPDATE: Hah, if there's barely a mention of China in the Journal, it's only because they didn't copy it over from the July 8 Time magazine cover story a few weeks ago, "The Only Child: Debunking The Myths".

That study was by Dr. Toni Falbo, of UT Austin, was a survey done in 1990. Turns out "the recognized expert on the one-child family and only children" hasn't published any new research on only children since 1993. [pdf]

But with a tagline like that, she still gets quoted all the time in order to "debunk" only child "stereotypes." Like in this 2007 essay from Brain, Child, for example:

In fact, Falbo looked specifically at the little emperor stereotype--the Chinese only child who's fat, bratty, badly behaved, and does not play well with others--and found it didn't stand up. Chinese parents of only children were more likely to "push," she found, though not "indulge."
Hold that thought.

Here's a 2008 article from Psychology Today titled, "Plight of the Little Emperors":

Yet despite the stereotype, the research has revealed no evidence that only kids have more negative traits than their peers with siblings--in China or anywhere else. "The only way only children are reliably different from others is they score slightly higher in academic achievement," explains Toni Falbo...
Oh no, higher test scores? How will we cope?

Falbo's setup in Time holds another key to understanding the only child question:

No one has done more to disprove Hall's stereotype than Toni Falbo, a professor of educational psychology and sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. An only child herself and the mother of one, Falbo began investigating the only-child experience in the 1970s...[italics added]
My point is not to even remotely question Falbo's extensive work, or to imply that it's somehow discredited by her own life experience.

But the media emphasis on only child stereotypes tells me that the real story, at least of these stories, is, what else? parental anxiety. In this case, it's parents anticipating or grappling with societal and family expectations--the flipside of stereotypes--about having more than one kid. It's the whole premise, in fact, of Jennifer Niesslein's piece in Brain, Child.

And it's the cautionary secondary theme of that Psychology Today story, which sounds the alarm bells about an apparently exploding mental health crisis among China's youth, where the one-child generation is "buckling under the constant pressure" of rigid, deterministic testing regimes and overwhelming parental expectations. That's the "push" Falbo's study found and dismissed, btw.

So having just one kid is fine, and the kid'll be fine. As long as you don't freak out and turn into a helicopter parent and burden your kid with every last one of your hopes and dreams, and drive him crazy with your relentless pressure for him to succeed--like, apparently, every parent in China.

A Dose of Sibling Rivalry [wsj via dt reader rolf]

Cast of Dads #28: Stitches, Veggies and Scooping Poop

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

In this episode of Cast of Dads one of the dads tells of a late night spill that ended with a trip to the ER and some stitches… which leads to a discussion of kids and injuries… which leads to me recalling the tale of my daughter and her missing finger tip… (you’ll have to listen to the show for the rest of that story!)  In the midst of all the gory talk we manage to give some heartfelt parenting advice, and even some tips on cooking as a family.  Once again we prove that five dads and thirteen kids equals a treasure trove of tales to tell.  Enjoy!

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If you have been enjoying the Cast of Dads podcast, please tell your friends about the show and have them subscribe to either our direct feed or via iTunes. Also, please leave us a review in iTunes!

Cast of Dads is a group of podcasting and blogging dads who gather to gab about fatherhood. The cast of dads includes C.C. ChapmanJeffrey SassMax KalehoffMichael Sheehan, and Brad Powell, who collectively represent 13 kids from the youngest of babies to full grown adults. Each of them brings a unique perspective to being a father.

Jeff Sass is the proud dad of ZEO (Zach, 22, Ethan, 20 and Olivia, 18).  He is also a seasoned entertainment and technology exec and active social media enthusiast.  You can see more of Jeff’s writing at Sassholes! and Social Networking Rehab and you can listen to Jeff on the Cast of Dads podcast.

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