Dad's House

Single Parent Dating
& Parenting Teens


Bringing Up the Bottom of Alltop

Posted on April 3rd, 2008 | 12 comments

Dad’s House was recently selected to be part of Alltop – a website that collects stories from “all the top sites” on the internet. It’s the brainchild of Will Mayall, Kathryn Henkens, and Guy Kawasaki, the noted Apple evangelist from back in the day. (I was at Xerox around that same time.) Single mom bloggers [...]

Pass the Kleenex, I’m Tearing Up

Posted on April 2nd, 2008 | 7 comments

I have a good life. I’m a single dad with happy and healthy kids; we live in a nice home in a beautiful area; I’ve enjoyed success and am pursuing my passions; I strive to be self-aware. It wasn’t easy getting here, but I did. And believe me, I’m grateful. So I’m always caught off [...]

Be Wary of Dating Expert Advice Sites

Posted on March 18th, 2008 | 6 comments

So, you’re thinking about giving online dating a try, but you have cold feet and you google for expert dating advice. Be wary – some sites offering free advice are really there to sell you on the idea of internet dating, and make money off you in the process. Without you giving them a dime.
How [...]

Ten Great Reasons to Date a Single Dad

Posted on March 11th, 2008 | 2 comments

Single dads are a different breed than single men, in a good way. A lot of great qualities come from single parenting, like being mature, responsible, caring, understanding, patient, kind. A single guy might turn out to possess these same traits. But then again, he might not. Wouldn’t you rather see those qualities in action [...]

Hooking Up – I Just Want To Be Your Lover

Posted on February 29th, 2008 | 8 comments

Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love and Lose at Both, by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Laura Sessions Stepp gives a detailed look at the hookup culture that is permeating social scenes in American colleges and even some high schools.
Hooking up involves two people getting together for sex without commitment or attachment. Ms. Stepp suggests [...]

Is the Dating Pool Really That Small?

Posted on February 27th, 2008 | 9 comments

I was drinking sangria at the bar of Cascal, a local tapas restaurant, when an attractive woman and her date sat down beside me. It took a moment to catch her eye, at which point I couldn’t help but flash a wry smile. No, I wasn’t hitting on her, trying to flirt when her date [...]