Father Friday 2 - Best of the Week From Blogger Dads

Graphic by Chris @ Daddy Doctrines

Writing a lot about fatherhood on this blog has enabled me to reach out and meet a lot of very cool (and a few slightly unstable) dads who are writing blogs, twittering content, and making huge contributions to the body of work on excellent fathering that can be found on das internets.

Last week I started my first feature here at The Chalkboard. I was as nervous as a thirteen year old girl throwing her first party, anxious and scared that no one would come. Fortunately sixteen dads joined in, linking what they felt was their best post from the past week. And let me tell ya, there is some GOOD STUFF there. It became what I had hoped it would, a sort of "best of" album of funny and insightful dad written blog posts.

So here we are at week two. If you are a dad, join in! If you are a mom, and you feel you have written an absolutely awesome post this week, we don't practice discrimination here at The Chalkboard. Even though it says Father Friday, please jump in with us. The goal as always is to run a list of the best dads (and moms) have had to offer on their blogs this week.

Now, the guidelines...


1. You need to be a father. New father, old father, soon to be father, want some day to be a father, father...doesn't matter. You just need to be a dad. (Or a really awesome mom!)

2. You must own and maintain your own blog.

3. If you meet the requirements for rules one and two, look back over your posts from the past week, from Friday to Friday. Re-read them all.

4. Choose the post you feel was your particular BEST for the week. It can be funny, helpful, sad, dramatic, deep, light...whatever. Pick the post that most reflects you and what your awesome blog has to offer.

5. Follow the host. That's me. It's quick and painless and I always follow back. (This part is optional, but oh so appreciated!)

6. Put your blog address and a short description of the post in the Linky link located below. Be short but concise. (You know...like twitter!)

7. After you are on the list, surf the posts of the other dads and follow as many as you can. Read and above all else COMMENT! We all know that comments are to bloggers what a keg of Dear Park water is to a desert nomad.

8. Grab the code below, create a new post on your blog, and enter it so you can share the growing list with all your followers. Then just sit back and let it grow!


Pass the link around to your other blogger friends, RT on Twitter. Let's break the sixteen participants we made in our first week of operation. Special thanks to Chris over at The Daddy Doctrines for designing the amazingly groovy Father Friday badge! Feel free to grab it for your post.


Have a great weekend and remember, it takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.


- Brian