FF Season II Week 1 Thursday, 25 February 2010 00:00 Written by Joeprah

Year two is now officially underway for Fatherhood Friday at Dad Blogs. If you haven't noticed, the site has new features on the homepage. DB Answers and Mentally Sexy are among the new menu items.

Mentally Sexy Contest is heating up

Speaking of Mentally Sexy, we are starting to get some entries in and I can say the competition is going to be heated. If you haven't got your entry in yet, get to it. Even Daddy Files is part of the mix. This is your chance to show the world why moms think that good dads are hot. Be a part of a fun contest and win an iPod while your at it. Seriously, why not?

Mentally Sexy Judges

We are looking for judges for the Mentally Sexy Contest. Judges need to be able to be objective, fun and consistent. So, if you are interested in being a judge, join the group and find out more.Fellas, have you joined the Mentally Sexy Contest? Why not get your wife to be a judge? Let's rock this thing and have some fun.

DB Answers

Like Yahoo! Answers but better. Why better? Because it's DB Answers--duh. Ask anything from parenting to blogging questions at DB Answers. Are you a know it all? Why not help answer the questions that members post. Bottom line, it's a great new feature and will only get better the more that people use it.

Fatherhood Friday (FF) Notes

Make sure that you link to Dad Blogs in your FF posts, also--when you post your link here at DB, make sure your link points to your Fatherhood Friday post--not your blog's homepage. Make it easy for people to find your Fatherhood Friday contribution. Tweet #FatherhoodFriday as often as you can and visit & comment other FF posts with vim and vigor.

So, get your links up and be good stewards of Fatherhood Friday--onto the links!

 

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Fatherhood Friday 52: One Year Celebration Friday, 19 February 2010 00:00 Written by Joeprah

I am in a festive mood. Earlier today, I appeared on the Tyra Banks Show with my wife, and I gotta say--she looked hawt! My wife that is. It's funny, she thought she looked cross-eyed and I thought I looked like a big red tomato (they gave me a bright red sweater pullover to wear). We are very self-critical that way. I was actually more nervous to watch myself on TV than I was actually being interviewed--weird right? Anyways, with what I am calling the Tyra Factor my book jumped up the ranks sharply on Amazon (I probably sold like 5 copies or something). Whatever the reason--I finally got ranked. My book got ranked at Amazon! Score!

A good blogger friend of mine reviewed my book and her review is off the charts in awesomeness, and we got our taxes done (yeah, they owe us--big time). All that being said and here we are arriving at the one year anniversary of Fatherhood Friday. A year, in my opinion, means that a tradition has become solidified in the blogging world and is now more of an institution than a passing fad. It's big. A blogging year is like 10 regular years. A lot happens in blogging time.

So, to celebrate the fifty-second week of Fatherhood Friday, we are giving away $25 to two lucky winners. All you have to do is post a your link in the form below. However, you can only post one link (did you read that Que?). One link only. If you post more than one link, we will delete all but one and by 2 PM Saturday, linking will be closed. So, get your Fatherhood Friday entries in and hang tight to see if you are a winner.

We will randomly pick two winners using a random number generator and we will share who those winners are on Monday the 22nd. So, get your links up and be good stewards of Fatherhood Friday--onto the links!

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Fatherhood Friday 51 Friday, 12 February 2010 00:00 Written by Joeprah

We are on the eve of Fatherhood Friday 52! Can you feel the sense of accomplishment there? Dads and moms taking time to write about parenthood from the perspective of what fatherhood means to them. There's some special going on here and I for one am very proud to be a part of such an inspiring collection of thoughts and people on a weekly basis. Seriously, you all rock!

Since last week Pete made a startling confession about Twitter--namely that he hates Twitter, I thought we could use confession as our theme for this week and next. Remember, themes aren't mandatory, but just a way for us to brainstorm something meaningful to write about. With that being said, I have a confession to make--I am starting to hate the snow.

Let me begin by saying the snow turns me into a kid. I love getting out in the snow. The snow pants, the gloves, the hats--it's all very romantic to me. I love sledding, building forts, throwing snow balls and the resulting hot chocolate. But, I can tell you--without any doubt, I hate being plowed in. In less than a week, we have received around 40 inches of snow. Our house is at the intersection of two busy streets that service local emergency vehicles and is plowed religiously. When your house is at an intersection--plows will inevitably push mountains of heavy snow at the end of your driveway. Why?

The plows seem to do it as a test. They want to see what my breaking point is. How much snow will it take before I crack. I look at plows and I see something evil. I see something unstoppable. I see my eternal enemy. Plows must be stopped.

I am one of those guys that is an optimist. I see the good in virtually everything. "Why did he have to get sick and die?" Someone asks--I say, "So we can get closer to a cure--he was a martyr." Someone asks, "What sense does murder make?" I say, "God missed that person who died so much, he called them back early."

I see nothing good about plows. Sure they clear the roads, but at what expense? I can't see my mailbox. My back perhaps will never recover and I am pretty sure we are expecting 12 more inches of snow on Monday into Tuesday. Literally, I can't lift the snow high enough to shovel our drive right now. There are six to seven foot piles on either side and my lower back feels like someone put a blow torch to it, but none of that matters any more because the end of driveway has two feet of solid snow packed down like concrete.

I hate plows, what is your confession? Tell us in this edition of Fatherhood Friday. Onto the links!

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Fatherhood Friday Cash Monday, 08 February 2010 15:38 Written by Dad Blogs

Fatherhood Friday has been running for 50 weeks now. The one year anniversary is coming up shortly and we are going to give away cold hard cash to two random Fatherhood Friday contributors for week 52. That's right, just add your link to your Fatherhood Friday post next week and you are entered to win $25.00. Two lucky winners based on random number generation will win $25.00 just for writing about Fatherhood! Score!! So, be sure to contribute to Fatherhood Friday--because it pays.