We all know that it’s a good idea to help your child have clean and healthy teeth, but it may be difficult to know when to start taking them to the dentist or how to help them form the best dental habits while they’re growing up. And let’s be honest, it’s not always the easiest…
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How first-time dads maximize their child’s health
Just about the first piece of wisdom that every first-time dad hears from someone — a friend, a co-worker, an older relative — is that newborns don’t come with instruction manuals. It’s true. As much as we’d all love babies to come with a link to a PDF instruction manual in multiplelanguages, dads can follow…
Reno Dads Podcast Episode 12: Are YOU Man Enough to Be a Girl Scout?
In this episode, the Reno Dads podcast invited one of our own, Luigi Iuppa and Jess Mahon, Director of Mission Delivery for Girl Scouts of Sierra Nevada programs, to sit down and talk about all the great programs that the Girl Scouts have here in Reno and the region. Some of the programs that we…
Reno Dads Podcast Episode 11: Ken Zimmerman
Local dad talks about living through his daughter’s cancer diagnosis and treatment In this episode, the Reno Dads podcast crew sits down with Ken Zimmerman, a local dad who shares his family’s story of the journey through their daughter Emily’s cancer diagnosis and treatment. As our readers and listeners might recall, the Reno Dads are…
Health is the Best Father’s Day Gift for Dads
In the 1920s, women outlived men an average of one year. Today’s numbers show that the average has risen to women outliving men by more than five years. So what gives? While the women in our lives tend to be very giving, there is one thing they often do for themselves that men don’t. They…
Review: UFC Gym Reno is Open For Business
I’m going to skip the preaching about Nevada’s obesity problem and Nevada’s childhood obesity epidemic and cut straight to the point. The UFC Gym Reno is now open for business. That is right, a UFC Gym. In Reno. Think jiujitsu, boxing conditioning, kickboxing conditioning, traditional weights, functional fitness, punching bags, and exercise equipment in a…
Vaccines: All the Cool Dads are Doing it
As parents, we like to be informed. It gives us a sense of power and control, and when it comes to our children, we feel we’re better able to make decisions to protect them and keep them safe. Every parent is faced with a critical choice to make for the health of their child –…
Solution to Seasonal Stuffiness
“What if you hate the way he picks his nose? …..And eats it. All men do it.” – Kristoff from Frozen I don’t know about you, but I was anxious for the winter of 2016/2017 to end. Full disclosure: I don’t ski or snowboard, so the over abundance of snow in the Sierras was lost…