Fun Friday: What Dads Can Do While Mom is Shopping!

If you are going to be taking your spouse shopping for Mother's Day, you might be looking for something to do (or maybe just feeling a little left out). No worries, I gotcha covered!

While the top one on this list might be difficult to acquire by Sunday, I think it's the best!

Daimler Chrysler Electric Car with a Fun Feature!
Check it out!

Ok, so that one might have been a dream that won't be fulfilled anytime soon.
In the meantime, are some things you can do while the Mrs. uses up her gift cards:

Browse the tool section (make a list of things you want for Christmas, email it to her LATER)
Check out one of the 15 MLB games scheduled
Review the 9 Best Apps for Men by Men's Health (hint-you may need one for the last idea)
Or if those aren't your thing, check out these 19 Super-Fun Free Apps for Dads
Speed Enthusiasts: Sorry. No Nascar race today (yep, probably fixed) but you could check in on your favorite driver, review the Speed.TV schedule for the day or watch some videos
Football Fans get ready with some College FB News / NFL Updates
Need a laugh or a shock? Check out Guzer.com

Hopefully these will keep you busy and remember to keep a smile on your face for her, because when Mommy's not happy, no one's happy.

Back to School Anxiety: Bullying

Download “School Boy Being Stressed” by David Castillo Dominici via freedigitalphotos.net I recently wrote about how to help your child if they’re struggling with going back to school because they were bullied. My biggest most important tip was to listen, because I honestly could not write a ‘How-to-make-them-not-afraid’ column. Frankly I thought that was absurd. Fear is sometimes real. Anxiety is sometimes truly there, and for a good reason. Our job as parents isn’t to try to make it go away, it’s to try to find out the true source of those worrisome feelings. If you’d like to read more, click here. And if you’re child is struggling to find excitement about the new school year, don’t deny it, just accept it and move forward gently. Here’s some more on bullying: Family Matters Links: A Touching Story/Song Bullying: A thing of the past A Peace Poem By My Teenage Daughter A Deeper Insight into My Thoughts on People Who Bring Harm to Others Other Links: Stop Bul

Green Punch Buggy....!!!!

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Good Customer Service At Home

Over the years, my careers have mainly been customer service based. I started in a family business and then moved on up through the rungs from waitress, to hostess, to sales associate, manager and eventually the GM of a hotel. In all my years, my training taught me that you should always do your best to take your customer all the way to what they need, make them happy, and never leave them until they are done with you. I pride myself on my customer service abilities. Though the other day, I think I failed at customer service in my own home! I was getting ready to cut my daughter's hair and because of how long it had gotten (she's been growing it out for a year!) I felt this time it would be best if instead of me spritzing it with water, she could wash and condition it real quick. She was fully clothed so I just suggested she run into the bathroom and wash her hair in the tub. She’s fourteen. I suppose I just assumed that she knew how to kneel over the tub and do it.

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