Waiting for his name to be called…to the podium…to receive his diploma!
My son graduated from high school this year. In the fall, he’s going to college. For some reason, I did not grasp the significance of his high school graduation during the event itself. Maybe it was the intense crowds and poor organization of it all? Maybe it was the struggles we endured during his early years in high school. Maybe I don’t know what it was?
How do you use the short space allowed to describe yourself in your Twitter bio? I believe a Twitter bio reveals a lot. Mine is below and let’s analyze it first, before I break apart others.
It’s that time of season where our kids are celebrating graduation…from elementary school on to college. “Dad” did not use the amazing Jodi Okun (College Financial Aid Advisors) for advice on how to prepare, best practices for applying, and the smartest and diverse ways in which parents and potential students can get scholarships and/or financial aid. That is why “Dad” is sobbing.
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What’s New? I sometimes hear that with my mother saying it with a comic twist. There’s so much going on that I don’t know where to begin. This week’s column – The Novel of Having Kids – is a new favorite of mine because I like the analogy and haven’t seen it expressed this way before. Father’s Day was quite cool and I hope you appreciate the Because I Said So that VoogDesigns did for us. Are you Staying In the Loop? Have you signed up for my newsletter? Please do and ALL you will receive is a short weekly update on things happening in my Social Media world (so much!)- sign up on the Home Page. You will get NOTHING else but the newsletter. Finally, we have renowned pediatrician Dr. David Hill joining us Thursday for #DadChat. You can ask him ANY question and have three chances to win a copy of his new book!
#DadChat was honored to have renowned pediatrician Dr. David Hill – aka @DadsBook – on Thursday, June 21, from 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. PT. The NBA Game stole some of our “Thunder,” so to speak, but we had an intimate chat nonetheless! Questions of all sorts were asked and three lucky people won copies of Dr. Hill’s new book, Dad to Dad: Parenting Like a Pro. Next week – June 28 – we #GetUnreal at #DadChat, with @TheGoToMom!
What’s your favorite novel? Do you like Grisham? Prefer historical fiction? Romance? Epics? I’ve loved a lot of the great epic novels such as Herman Wouk’s WWII books, The Winds of War and War and Remembrance. I also liked great historical fiction like James Clavell’s Asian Saga of King Rat, Tai-Pan, Shōgun, Noble House, Whirlwind, and Gai-Jin. What about the Fifty Shades of Grey? Is that your cup of tea? My favorite book of all-time is Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett. What are yours?
I’m old enough to remember using rotary phones, having a pen pal, and Black and White TV with no remote, or a remote that was wired and did almost nothing. My boys have grown up with computers, Facebook, music “sharing” first with Napster and then so many others, Twitter, and Social Media. How they communicate is so much different than when I was their age. How we all communicate now is so varied. Do you think you employ effective communication?
