So The DADvocate Project has been going well and we’re ready to take it to the next level. We have a few things in play and I’m going to tell you about them this weekend. But one of the big ones is getting a new site up specifically for the DADvocate Project. I’ll talk more about that over the weekend.

Today I wanted to leave you with an anonymous quote from one of our dad’s about their Parenting philosophy.

“Offer boundaries, set high expectations and provide support.” -Anonymous

This is my Daughter Abby demonstrating how she breaks those boundaries, defies expectations and loves having support.

Let me know if you like the quote? Let me know if you would like to see more quotes? More Data?

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Last night we, Haley and I, had the opportunity to interview the Army’s Disabled person of the year. Brook Larabee is an awesome person and was a true joy to get to know. We had quite a bit of additional conversation after the camera was off. She travels regularly, is very active and a genuinely great person. I hope you enjoy the video.

Army Disabled Employee of the Year from Kevin Metzger on Vimeo.

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Choosing red is about the only color that makes sense when creating a chart on how often we have sex. I was amazed when looking at the data for this chart that it fell into an almost perfect bell curve. It seems that most of us are having sex2-3 times per months, with the majority of us 2-3 times or more.

We have a relatively small sample in this data set when compared to looking at the population as whole but I’m guessing that this data is going to turn out to be representative of the final DADvocate population. Basically it seems like a lot of people out there are having sex pretty regularly. So the next question I’ll have to look at is: Does having more sex make you a better dad? Do you make more money if you have more sex? We’ll spend some time looking at these questions and more in the next few blog.

Upcoming posts:  look for an interview with Army Corp of Civilians, Disabled Person of the year. This was an awesome interview. Finally if you have completed the DADvocate survey click here.

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This graph shows how the DADvocate Survey participants value their children. The specific question is “How Important are your children to a Happy Life? As you can see the great majority said between 8 and 10 with most of the respondents answering 10.  I didn’t find this surprising, but what I did find surprising was that there were a few respondents who actually put a 1 down.

I’ve got to be honest I just can possibly fathom that children are only a 1 in importance. They teach you so much. I was actually interrupted during the writing of this post by my daughter who was having a bad dream. It was the one where a snake comes and crawls on you. I remember having a similar dream as a kid and told her about it. She felt better and went back to bed. I feel better about that single interaction than anything else I’ve done all day. How can anyone rate this lower than an 8?

What do you think? If you would rate this lower than an 8 I’d love to hear from you! Tell us what drives your rating.

If you have not yet taken the DADvocate Survey please don’t forget to do so.

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DADvocate – Internet Discussions from Kevin Metzger on Vimeo.

This is a video interview with Security Expert Ben Halpert. Ben has two daughters and a son on the way. When his first daughter was born he began thinking about the security risks for being on line with children and how and when that conversation should start to take place. Ben decided that we are probably reaching out to children too late in life to begin this conversation. Much like teaching your children to say please or thank you Internet behavior conversation needs to start when your children are young and still listen to you.

Ben has started the Non Profit Savvy Cyber Kids. This organization is dedicated to providing resources to parents and teachers that will help them in educating their children on internet safety. Currently Ben has a number of resources available on his site including:

• A Parent Child Agreement – Rules for Online Safety
• Adult Caregiver/Parent Checklist
• SafeOnline 101 Presentation
• Finally Ben has a children’s book that is still in the works but expected to be published later this spring.

To access all this information and keep up with Ben go to benhalpert.com

I’d also like to thank Jeff Sass for inspiring this interview with his post Having that conversation with your kids. You can find more on Jeff Sass at JefferySass.com

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Today’s data is on politics. I know, we aren’t supposed to talk about politics and I’ve been careful not to allow politics to enter my site’s content. Despite this we were still interested to understand how your politics and your father’s politics aligned. It’s very interesting that those with democrats for parents tend to be democrats. Those who identified their father as Republican now tend to be a mix of Republican, Independent, Conservative, and Libertarian. I wonder why those trends exist? Do any of you have a clue?

Incidentally no one has answered that they or their father was a Pinko.

By the way I did have a guest post today over at IntrepidRunnner. It is about my running and Haley. I found my Zen. The post is worth reading if you like my traditional blog articles.

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I just ran some numbers on the DADvocate project relate to what dad’s read. I was amazed to see that 63% of the dads that took the survey read blogs and only 60% read News papers. This is a sign that things are changing and blogs are becoming more important. Let me know what this stat means to you!

If you have not yet taken the DADvocate Survey please take it now!