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Your PRESENCE never has to be BORING! Join James Lopez founder of Cool4Dads.com every week as he and his guests explore the best and worst parts of Fatherhood. Real topics, real unfiltered conversations, the DAD way.
MAKE YOUR PRESENCE FELT #FatherhoodIsLit
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As fathers, there are times when we have to think about what we say to our kids. Without context, things can get crazy. This week I wanted to talk about how a recent health scare had me dodging questions from the family.
We all do it for different reasons, tune in
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Health is one of those things many of us don't pay mind to until we have a big scare!
A big scare got me focused and although it sucks to have happened that way, I'm grateful for it.
This week I needed a FRIEND to lean on to talk about health and the homie Mike Dorsey came through for our, We Do It For The Kids Series!
We talked about health, why it matters, why we hide it from people especially our kids, and how to move forward once you know your health needs attention.
IG: @blackfathersnow @FatherhoodIsLit
Blog & Show Notes: No Health, No Dad: We Do It For Our Kids
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How do you build a connection with your child?
There are millions of ways and for some of us, the connection comes via the love of sneakers. This week I wanted to explore that with my friend Kian Miller, aka Mr. Miller or Miller's Corner.
We talked about securing all the sizes we need, getting our kids to keep their kicks clean, and even the used sneaker market. Kian came through and dropped some gems, just wish he dropped off some Air Mags at the crib for us 🤷🏽♂️🤪
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Blog & Show Notes: Kicks & Your Kids, The Sole Connection with Kian Miller
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When you hear the word deadbeat, you associate it with a deadbeat mother or father but others can be deadbeats as well!
This week Mike Dorsey and I talked about dealing with people that show deadbeat tendencies whether they have kids or not! Think of that friend or family member that always says we can't wait to hang with you and the family but never show up!
2 friends talking about life as a father, raw and uncut! Tune In
IG: @blackfathersnow @FatherhoodIsLit
Blog & Show Notes: We Do It For Our Kids
Merch: #FatherhoodIsLit Gear
Where I'm from the streets taught many of us about guns at an early age! As a father, I'm trying to minimize what my kids learn from the streets and decided that it was up to me to teach them how to PROPERLY handle a gun. Off we went!
This week we covered teaching your kids how to handle a gun, why it's important, and how it can help your kids avoid the pitfalls of wanting to be down with those who play with guns.
Took your kids shooting before? Hit me up, I would love to hear how you did it so we can hook the fellas up
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Blog & Show Notes: Teaching Your Kids How To Handle A Gun
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Around here, real child support isn't just a check we write to the court system. Instead, child support is being there for your child's ups and downs as they grow in life.
This week, Mike Dorsey and I talked about the definition society emphasizes, what we feel real child support looks like and even got into a discussion on weaponizing child support.
Money can finance things but it can never replace the true value REAL FATHERS bring to the table. Keep making YOUR PRESENCE felt!
IG: @blackfathersnow @FatherhoodIsLit
Blog & Show Notes: Child Support: We Do It For Our Kids
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When social workers came around, kids in my neighborhood worried and so did some of the parents!
Come to find our Social Workers aren't the boogie man or woman, they actually want you and your KIDS to WIN!
This week we sat down with my friend Bas Moreno to find out more about the social working side of things and to learn about some of the things he applies from it as a FATHER of 2 kids himself!
Gems were dropped!
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Blog & Show Notes: Learning from Social Working with Bas Moreno
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Were traditions huge in your family? I didn't know they were until I had my own kids and started forming our own traditions with them!
This week we covered why traditions matter and how they can be huge or small but the real sauce is being there doing it together!
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Blog & Show Notes: Traditions: It's who you do it with that matters
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Conversations help us grow and when we grow our kids grow with us!
This week I wanted to jump on a call with my friend Mike Dorsey of the Black Fathers Now community to share some of our conversation in a new series called: We Do It For Our Kids!
Doing it for your kids might look different but we all do it because we care. Tune in to hear some of the things we talked about like not being perfect all the time and finding spots within our everyday lives that we can use to educate our kids without being that annoying old head DAD!
Gems were dropped between great friends, now you can learn from them as well! Lets get it!
IG: @blackfathersnow @FatherhoodIsLit
Blog & Show Notes: We Do It For Our Kids!
Merch: #FatherhoodIsLit Gear
Ever thought about taking your kids to a trade show? We took our oldest to the Got Sole Sneaker Trade Show to watch him work and man did he kill it! The most important lesson here was to remember that our kids know way more than they sometimes show! Tune in to hear how we did it and how you can do the same!
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Blog & Show Notes: Got Sole: Attending A Trade Show
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Resolutions, are they holding you down, or are your actions doing so?
Around here we focus on our actions, not on our plans!
This week we focused on 3 things I feel can help you and me as we continue to make our presence felt!
Self-care: doubling down on doing things that make us happy and doubling down on the people that don't judge us for doing so
Not stressing the things we don't know. We don't have to be perfect, just present
Stop assuming our kids know what we knew at their age, and start educating instead.
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Show Notes: cool4dads.com/resolutions
Who's going to take care of your child's most valuable asset, YOU?
Self-Care isn't something we dads focus on but should.
For this episode, we talk about how the At Home Dads Conference made me realize how important self-care truly is.
Hope it encourages you to double down on the things you love and the people that love you for it! #FatherhoodIsLit
Show notes: Self-care: Who's There For You
We parents are great at acknowledging when our kids do bad, it's time to keep that same ENERGY when they do GOOD! This week we talked about rewarding your kids for doing good and why it's ok to do so!
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How do you teach your kids to defend themselves? That's a question we all have to really think about as our world and issues change! This week, I got my homie Mike Roman, founder of Rumble In The Bronx, to come through to drop gems! We covered everything from bullying to snitching to having your kids learning how to DEFEND themselves.
Lets get it!
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"Dad, I'm built different!" My son hit me with that line and at 1st I couldn't stop laughing. Then I realized he was right and damn I'm proud to have been part of that. Tune in to find out why our kids ARE BUILT DIFFERENT and why we need to keep applying that pressure on them to be different.
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You always hear that kids need to learn how to love themselves first but how the hell do we teach that without turning them into cocky monsters? Oh #dadlife, you got to love it! This week we had the homie Vernon Gibbs II come through and drop some gems for the fellas. He tells us why he wrote “When Good Fruit Goes Bad” And how it can help with those lessons we all know our kids need! Tune in!
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Sometimes we do things for our kids that we think are little or small in comparison to other things but in reality, are huge for our kids. This week we cover how little things turned into big things on our side of fatherhood as we celebrated Father's Day with friends.
Salutes to Termanology of the @gooddadgang & the homie @bigeasy718 for reminding us that #FatherhoodIsLit
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Father's Day is always a special day! This week we talked about 3 things that we sometimes overlook that make this life the best life!
When they know it all
When they get excited and we have no clue why
Our values & traditions pop up later
As always continue to make YOUR PRESENCE felt every day, we celebrate Father's Day every damn day!
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How does a father deal with Clubfoot or any other birth defect his child might have? It starts with faith and research! This week we had our friend Christian Penn of nonprofit Projectivity come through to talk to us about overcoming Clubfoot with his son Max.
Chris kept it super real and walked us through how he did it so when we are faced with the unknown, we can also handle our business. Real talk is the best talk and Chris dropped gems.
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To learn more about Clubfoot, pick up Boots and Barnyard Boogie by Chris’ wife Rachel Reinsch HERE!
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Taking chances means you will run into boring events. It's part of #dadlife but we can do something about the events we choose to attend. Listen to how we survive and sometimes even avoid boring events by researching them, batching events, and remember why we are there to begin with.
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