About Us: Dr Dad & Family
Our Promise
About Us: Dr Dad & Family. If you are a parent or involved with any aspect of care of a child or children, I promise that I will provide you with useful, insightful, helpful and most importantly, applicable ways to make parenting more efficient and fun! Although we may provide occasional anecdotal examples from our lives, this site is not meant to be a daily blog of our personal lives. There are many more fascinating people to follow in the blogosphere or reality TV world. This site is intended to help you, the parents or family or caretakers of the children in your lives.
Our Request
Please give us a chance!!! I am asking you to check out my website at drdadtips.com at least once a week. I will be adding new and exciting articles and updating any current articles each week; therefore, please BOOKMARK my site into your browser & swing by for a visit once a week. After I sign up for an email service, please add your email to my blog so that I can update you whenever there is any new posts. I will NOT spam you or try to sell you any products.
Let Us Do the Reading & the Work So You Can Spend More Quality Time With Your Kids
Do you ever wonder what a licensed medical doctor or physician with an M.D. thinks about parenting? The Internet is full of parenting advice and recommendations from teachers, educators, licensed PhD authors and even pediatricians. With most of us working full time jobs, who has the time to do all the research on parenting? There has to be a Netflix show you’d rather watch or something else you would rather spend your free time on.
My wife & I by nature research everything and spend many sleepless nights wondering how to be better parents. We huddle almost daily (just like we do at work) about what we are working on with our child, what progress we have made, and what we need to work on. I am highly analytical by nature and will break it down for you. I will find unique and innovative ways to parent so that you can do it better and more efficiently. We all want the best for our children. After spending so much time working on this, we want to share our message with whomever will listen.
Our Credentials
About Us: Dr Dad & Family
My academic career in a nutshell: valedictorian of junior high and high school, graduated college and medical school at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. (ranked #1 or #2 in USA) Usually, I spend 10-11 hours per work day to make sure that my patients in my clinical practice get the best care that I can provide. This is not meant to brag in anyway. Instead, I hope my background give you more confidence and trust when you read our posts.
After devoting my life to medicine, I found the love of my life and we were married in early 2016. In March 2017, something totally unexpected occurred. I was going to be a father! My wife has been crucial on this journey of parenthood. Family & teamwork are essential to successful parenting. I spent most of my life believing my life goal was to be a doctor. Fast forward to current time and now I feel that I have found my true calling and passion in life. Despite all its challenges, I can’t think of anything more amazing or inspiring than parenthood.
Why Will You Want to Read this Blog Regularly?
About Us: Dr Dad & Family
I have read over 50 books since becoming a dad. For example, I have read books about what to do before, during, and after pregnancy. Other topics include books about the first year of a child’s life, ranging from colic to sleep issues to swaddling and teething. Additionally, I have researched toddler development and milestones, including physical, emotional, and social milestones. I have read countless books on toddler training methods and ways to avoid tantrums. I have learned ways to empathize with children.
Because our son was initially diagnosed with language delay, we also have read at length about speech and occupational therapy and autism, as well as other developmetal issues. We have looked into various options for schooling ranging from Montessori, Waldor, Reggio Emilia to free range parenting and play based schooling. You get the idea. We have literally spent countless hours and thousands of dollars before our child even turned two year old!
Furthermore, my wife has spent an equal amount of time learning about every possible thing parents need to know before pregnancy (and it’s not just pre-natal vitamins), during pregnancy, during birthing, post-partum depression, breastfeeding, types of car seats and high chairs and cribs, baby formulas, children’s allergies, children’s skin products (moisturizers, shampoos, butt paste and more), teething products, children’s vitamins and supplements and much more!
In addition to observing almost every interaction that our child has had with other children, family members and adults since birth, we plan to offer additional insight into older children as our child gets older also. Otherwise, for now, the target demographics may be the newly married couple thinking about having children to those who have kids in early elementary school.
Last But No Least: To the Teachers & Educators
Thank you to all the teachers and educators out there that are working so hard to help our children! As a primary care physician, I understand what it means to feel overworked, underpaid and underappreciated. To all our parents who are reading this site, please reach out to your children’s teachers and let them know just how much you appreciate the work they do and let them know the impact they have made. When they move up a grade to another class or move to another school, let your kids’ teacher know just how much of a difference you have seen personally. They will still be overworked and underpaid, but at least they will feel more motivated and appreciated to continue to try to turn today’s challenged youth into tomorrow’s successful adults.
