Our first ever “Featured Dad” interview is up on the main page of www.dadsworld.com  The Featured Dad interview is different than the “Dad of the Month” in that we get more into the biography and other accomplishments of the Featured Dad.  We have so many outstanding Dads, we needed another feature to help showcase them.

Take a look at Cameron Herold’s interview and unique ideas.  He was the Chief Operating Officer of 1-800-GOT-JUNK for 7 years and helped it grow from $2 million to $105 million in 6 years with no debt or outside shareholders. 

Cameron is a highly successful entrepreneur who guides small business owners to success!  He has great ideas and his website is: www.backpocketcoo.com 

Cameron had an article in a recent issue of Success magazine, and is well respected as an expert in finding solutions to small business problems.

Be sure to read his interview and tell your friends and family about Dadsworld.  Become a fan on facebook and register on the main www.dadsworld.com page for many benefits.

Dadsworld has some exciting interviews lined up.  We should have a new Dad of the Month (DOM) interview up tomorrow, and this Dad is an outstanding example of what we represent.  Loving, involved, intelligent and all around great Dad.  Look for the new DOM tomorrow!

We also have a couple of suprise Dads in store, both are coming up in April!  I am sure you will know both of them, and Dadsworld is excited to bring you their stories.

Congratulations to Scott Gibbins from Woodhaven, Michigan for winning the March, 2010 free t-shirt drawing.  If you are registered as a member of Dadsworld (registration link is in homepage), you are automatically entered into our monthly drawings.  If you haven’t yet, be sure to register.  Also follow Dadsworld on facebook and twitter, if you are using those social media tools.  If you are not, I suggest you take a look at them.

We have so many exciting changes coming to the site!  Many of them are subtle, but others are obvious.  You will see the “Featured Dad” as a regular feature on the homepage.  It gets a little more in depth than the “Dad of the Month” interview, and goes into the biography of the Dad in greater detail. 

We just launched our twitter page (actually, I created it in October of 2007, but didn’t do anything with it until last month). 

Our facebook page has a similar story.  I created it over 2 years ago, but just last December really started adding content to it.  Facebook is an amazing tool.  It certainly can be a time-waster, but it also can be a powerful marketing tool, research tool and a great way to stay in touch with friends, family and clients.  If facebook were a counrty, it would be #4 in total population!  Incredible number of users. 

We are working on improving our log-in page, we are going to be adding an “outdoor recreation” column on the articles page, we are working toward a corporate sponsorship for the site and we are going to be adding some guest bloggers. 

I have received requests from Dads who write  colums or blogs to write for Dadsworld, so you will start to see some of their posts soon.  If you are a Dad, or know one who would like to write the occasional post for our blog, be sure to contact me.  info@dadsworld.com is the email address.

We are also adding more parenting statistics to the site, as this seems to be a very popular feature.

I am excited about our first “Featured Dad” interview, which is coming soon.  The Dad is an ultra-successful entrepreneur who has some outstanding ideas.  Look for that interview to go up this week.

Thanks for supporting involved Dads, and be sure to tell your friends and family about our website.  Have a great day!

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Dadsworld is now on Twitter and Facebook as well. 

Become a follower of Dadsworld on twitter at:  http://twitter.com/Dadsworld

and a fan of Dadsworld on facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/manage/?act=43597283#!/pages/Dadsworld/87521231700?ref=ts 

Both of these social media sites are great for getting in touch with friends and customers, promoting your business and they offer value when used as SEO tools.

If you are not yet on these social media sites, I encourage you to take a look at them.  If you own a business, website or sell products and services; you really could benefit from the free exposure these sites offer.  Not only through direct contact with your sphere and building a bigger sphere, but they also help your ranking on the search engines if you have a lot of activity on your pages.

They can be a little corny, but you can customize your page to filter out all of the stuff you don’t want to be inundated with.  This is for sure, most professionals are already on these sites or soon will be. 

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If you are a parent of one or more toddlers, you have probably experienced days and weeks where your childs ability to articulate their thoughts and comprehend circumstances jumps exponentially.  Both of our children had days like that last week. 

Alex, our 3 1/2 year old son is suddenly carrying on adult-like conversations with my wife and I.  His grasp of language and understanding situations is suprising to me.  He counts to 100 forward AND backward by himself.  He does the same with the alphabet, forward AND backward.  He will do this almost every night before going to bed.  He is reading many words now, and recognizing others based on situations.  He knows the days of the week, what our schedule is and on what day we do certain activities.  He is becoming so in tune to his surroundings, not merely going off and playing by himself anymore.

Haley, our 18 month old daughter; is talking up a storm.  Because of her hearing loss in 1 ear, we have a therapist visit every quarter, and last week she blew the therapist away.  She is not only NOT having any speech difficulties, she is 6 months advanced for her age.  I pointed out a dolphin to her (calling it a fish) a few nights ago and she corrected me and said, “dolphin.”  She now knows the alphabet and is starting to count.  She can repeat just about any word you say, and immediately remembers what it goes with.  Even in the car she knows where landmarks are, and calls them by name before we get there…ones she has only been by once.  She has a better sense of direction than I do!

Both of them have memories like a steel trap!  They don’t forget anything! 

It’s like they are little sponges for a while, taking a lot of stuff in but not necessarily expressing everything.  Then, all of the sudden, out it comes.  They start talking and understanding many levels up the scale seemingly instantly.  It is amazing. 

Parenting is such an emotional and unpredictable journey.  Frustration can be nearly unbearable, then only a short time later, they do something that makes you so proud.  These little ones can drive you up a wall one minute, and then turn your heart to mush the next.  It’s an exhausting yet exhilerating job.

Having the ability to “go with the flow” is essential to your sanity as a parent, as is having huge amounts of patience.  The ability to go on very little sleep also helps.    You get pushed to your breaking point, tested in every way,  but through it all you can’t forget that you are shaping a life.  How you act and react to them is teaching them lessons they will never forget.  That’s a very big responsibility.   In fact I can’t think of a bigger one. 

Being a parent is a blessing.  Being an involved and loving parent is a gift to your children and to all the rest of us. Thank you for all that you do.  Sometimes you might feel that parenting is a thankless job.  Not so.  Dadsworld thanks you, and so do your kids (even if they don’t tell you right away.)