Balancing Work and Life at #DadChat with C.C. Chapman
How to Survive Christmas, New Year’s, and the In-Laws #DadChat is the weekly TweetChat (on Twitter) that I founded and host – often with guest-hosts – every Thursday evening from 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. PT. It has grown to be one of the most popular, busy, and fun chats among the hundreds that exist. On Thursday December 6, I invited our participants to share their tips for surviving the holidays. The idea was simply to compile the best and make a column out of them. Good idea. Why Don’t You Do ALL That Social Media Offers?
I’ve written and spoken many times about how overwhelming all the new Social Media and Technology can be and feel. Yet, I use more new and old media, I suspect, than any other blogger (I’m aware of). And, it’s not that hard. Let’s explore what they all are and ask why YOU are not taking advantage of these amazing tools. Most of them are free and most of them are easy. What is hard is taking that first step and plunging in! Managing Holiday StressThursday, December 6, 2012 Featured guests: Wayne Levine (BetterMenCoaching.com) for “The Men’s Room.” Special Guest, Dr. Jennifer Weberman (The Parenting Playground) This show is loosely based on this week’s “A Dad’s Point-of-View” column, “Men vs. Women: Christmas Shopping.” We all manage Holiday Stress differently! Concert Series: Bruce Springsteen – Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at The Honda Center in Anaheim, California on December 4, 2012. The Boss had special guests Tom Morello and Mike Ness. Given it was the holiday season, he performed his signature Christmas Song, “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town,” in addition to many from his new album, Wrecking Ball, and so many of his classics in a 3-1/2 hour amazing show! This will be the first of several videos from this absolutely breathtakingly wonderful concert… Get my new e-book – both Kindle and PDF versions for free until Christmas Eve. Just click on the cover image below for details. It’s for real!
Our Family Christmas TraditionEvery family has their own Christmas tradition. Making this sing-a-long became a signature moment for The Sallan Boys way back when they were still young and sort of cooperative! This is over a decade old but sings to me with memories as if it were yesterday. We sang to the great Drifters Fifties version of White Christmas. I had a sore throat, but we still had a bunch of fun doing it! We all still enjoy listening to it a lot. These are the memories you keep forever! Enjoy, laugh, and sing-a-long with us! How the Whole Family Can Survive Christmas and New Years at #DadChat
This week, WE helped create an “A Dad’s Point-of-View” column. The result was Tips and Thoughts on How to Survive Christmas, New Year’s, and the In-Laws. We shared our favorite tips for making the holidays less stressful and more joyful. I’m selected the best of so many and included them in the above-mentioned column. Dabney Porte co-hosted (DabneyPorte.com and socialmediagirlfriends.com). Also, everyone had the opportunity to get a FREE Kindle AND PDF version of my new book, The Empty-Nest Road Trip Blues: An Interactive Journal from A Dad’s Point-of-View. The offer is good until Christmas Eve. Read the transcript of what you missed and please join us ANY and EVERY Thursday from 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. PT/9:00 – 10:00 ET. Men vs. Women: #Christmas Shopping Our fifth in this ongoing series could really be a one-sentence column: Women like to shop; Men don’t. Okay, I’ll elaborate a bit more, though that really sums it up. Add Christmas into the mix and we can simply say, men would rather be drinking eggnog or anything but shopping during the madness of the Holiday Season. |
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