Here is the weekly round-up of some posts that I did over at Babble.com in the Dadding Section:
I’m a bit of a slacker daddy. My kids seemed to be the only ones on the block who were last to learn how to ride their bikes. Chalk it up to me either being a bit lazy or them being extremely busy with a bunch of other activities (ballet, gymnastics, piano, acting, dance and oh yeah, school). Regardless of the reasons, they never really got on those two wheels to ride. Two of the three do know how to ride a bike without training wheels but my youngest, who’s 7, still is wobbly having only had 1 experience during the summer at biking without training wheels…and it was only for about 30 minutes.
So, when I got an offer to test out a new type of training wheel-less biking solution, that was battery powered and used technology to help a new rider along, I jumped at the chance to review it, and use my daughter as a bike-riding guinea pig of sorts. The enabling technology here is provided by Gyrobike, who make a product called a Gyrowheel. Simply boiled down, through the use of battery-powered gyroscopes within the wheel, the Gyrowheel provides additional stability to a young rider, without the need to use those cumbersome training wheels.
Especially as you get older as a child, you probably want to avoid the stigma of being a late-rider. If your bike has training wheels, you stick out like a sore thumb. But if you take off those training wheels and put on a Gyrowheel instead, you actually truly learn the art of balance and have a pretty cool looking bike in the process!
You simply charge up the rechargeable batteries for a few hours and then replace the front wheel on your child’s bike. DO NOTE (and I will explain and demonstrate later), you do have to be sure that you mount the Gyrowheel in the proper direction, otherwise your child will not be able to ride well at all.
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We almost dropped the deuce laughing during some of DaddyBrad’s stories in this episode of Cast of Dads called “Deuce in the Dryer“. It seems like we hit a low about mid podcast, revived ourselves a bit and then ended up back with our minds in the toilet, sort off, at the end of the podcast. But we covered a lot more in this 47th episode. Some interesting types of foods were discussed (with Jeff’s son coming up with a yummy sounding creation for Thanksgiving), but I’m not sure how I feel about a “Krispy Kreme burger”…just the sound of it made my arteries harden.
I feel like the groove is back…we took a few weeks off during the summer but given the range of topics below, I would say that we are doing a pretty good job hitting some of those “crappy” topics that make a dad’s life fun and interesting.
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We are halfway through November, I mean “Movember,” and I’ve got this itchy feeling on my face, as do a few of the other dads on Cast of Dads. Why? Because we are donating our liplines and faces to the Movember effort. You can see my post about it here. While I definitely am not quite sporting the crazy mustaches that Brad or Max are doing (and I don’t have the social influence that CC has), I certainly don’t look like my normal self. My dad actually likes it, despite in the past wanting to pay me to shave off any facial hair that I grew. So, in the #46th episode of Cast of Dads, “Real Men Will Grow a Mo” we talk a bit about Movember as well as a lot of other hot topics like Thanksgiving, Penn State, the Occupy Movement, Rick Perry, Herman Cain, Incognito mode and much more.
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