by Ari Yares | Jan 11, 2018 | The Innovative Dad Blog
Have you ever had one of those days where it feels like you are constantly nagging your children to get something done or to stop bothering his sister? Or maybe you are sitting down with your partner at the end of the day and you can only think of the million and one...
by Ari Yares | Dec 21, 2017 | The Innovative Dad Blog
For a brief time in my life, I was a professional magician. It sounds more glamorous than it was. For a few years in middle and high school, I would perform magic tricks for birthday parties. With an old battered suitcase full of tricks and a podium I made out of an...
by Ari Yares | Dec 7, 2017 | The Innovative Dad Blog
Good advice can be hard to find. I got two really great pieces of advice in graduate school that have stuck with me. The first was to never to get on the wrong side of the school secretary because she can either make or break your work experience. This was...
by Ari Yares | Nov 30, 2017 | The Innovative Dad Blog
There is a lot out there about coaching our children through their emotions, but what about dealing with our own? Someone once commented to me that the toughest part of being a parent is that it doesn’t come with a day off. Even when your kids are off at camp or...
by Ari Yares | Sep 14, 2017 | 21st Century Learning, The Innovative Dad Blog
As an educator, I have always been a little skeptical about homework. Not that I think that it should be completely eliminated, but that I don’t think that we spend enough time thinking about why we are assigning it. As a parent, my emotional reaction to homework runs...
