by Ari Yares | Jul 19, 2017 | The Innovative Dad Blog
This is how dinner went the other night in our house. One of my children had finished eating and was still hungry. Child: “What else can I have?” Me: “Strawberries” Child: “I don’t want strawberries.” Me, desperately trying to find something for him to eat: “How about...
by Ari Yares | Jul 12, 2017 | Writings
I’ve stopped listening to the news when I have the kids in the car. Over the summer, my older two children had become news junkies. They would ask me to turn on the radio each time they got in the car. They would be disappointed if there wasn’t a news broadcast for...
by Ari Yares | Jul 5, 2017 | The Innovative Dad Blog
I went grocery shopping the other day and an errand that should have been pretty quick to twice the amount of time I had planned. The culprit? Choice. Don’t get me wrong. I’m a big fan of free will and I believe we should be empowered to make our own...
by Ari Yares | Jun 28, 2017 | School Psychology, The Innovative Dad Blog
Like many boys his age, my son is fascinated by construction equipment. They are big, noisy, and they do things. He’s particularly enamored by bulldozers. These versatile workhorses of construction sites do it all. They move things, they flatten things, and they...
by Ari Yares | Jun 21, 2017 | The Innovative Dad Blog
In our home this week, it’s the dreaded week between the end of school and the start of camp which seems to coincide each year with the inability of the adults in the household to be out of the office at the same time. So, instead, we’re taking turns running what my...
by Ari Yares | May 25, 2017 | The Innovative Dad Blog
Curious about special education and how eligibility works? Please check out my featured guest article on the website Our Parenting Spot. Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on...
by Ari Yares | Mar 20, 2017 | The Innovative Dad Blog
Have you ever thought about how often you praise your child? Do you start their day with a positive comment? What is your first interaction of the morning like? The head of school for my first job as an administrator used to stand outside the building at carpool and...
by Ari Yares | Mar 14, 2017 | The Innovative Dad Blog
In the last few days, I’ve seen more than a handful of #ParentingFails scroll by as I read my Facebook and Twitter feeds. For the most part, they aren’t that severe: missed appointments, forgotten lunches, and the occasional I could have handled my kid better. While...
by Ari Yares | Feb 27, 2017 | The Innovative Dad Blog
“Mom! Johnny is doing [fill in the black with an obnoxious activity]!” Nobody likes a tattletale. Yet, it is a difficult behavior to extinguish in our children and often we’re not even sure that we want to eliminate it. After all, we want our children to develop the...
by Ari Yares | Feb 20, 2017 | Design Thinking, The Innovative Dad Blog
One of the best lessons that I learned in graduate school was to ask myself the question, “Do you want to die on that hill?” My advisor would pose that question when it seemed like we were putting on our armor to tilt at a windmill just like Don Quixote. He would...
