by Ari Yares | Mar 26, 2024 | The Innovative Dad Blog
Five years ago, our world tilted on its axis. The word “cancer” entered our vocabulary in a way we never imagined. Fear collided with a fierce need to protect our children, and a crucial question loomed: how do we talk to them about this? Just recently,...
by Ari Yares | Oct 22, 2021 | The Innovative Dad Blog
Cancer is the hardest thing that I have ever needed to explain to my kids. Probably because we struggle to understand it ourselves. The truth is that I have a hard time understanding it myself. Despite a million amazing advances in cancer care and treatment (which I...
by Ari Yares | Jan 20, 2020 | Gratitude, The Innovative Dad Blog
Sometimes, you don’t know the power of a practice until you’ve had the opportunity to really use it yourself. I’ve written and talked about the power of gratitude on this blog and with patients, students, and their families. I’ve emphasized it...
by Ari Yares | Oct 3, 2019 | The Innovative Dad Blog
Just days into the new year this past January, my wife was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer. I can remember vividly sitting in the car with her trying to figure out what was happening next in our lives. We were lucky. We had friends who were oncologists who were...