The Playful Dad

Fatherhood is about loving, living, and learning alongside your kids. AND playing with them.If you don't like to play, learn! Kids are fun teachers; ask them how to play. It is important that you do not shut them down.Here are fifty ways to be a fun-loving father - including but not limited to:Being athleticBuilding a fortReading and playFunny facesSarcasmAffection and funHolidaysPleasure in life itself Stephen Floyd is a polyglot who grew up in Arizona, learning Spanish and French concurrently as a child. After getting a Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Humanities, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and became an interrogator, learning Russian at the Defense Language Institute. Truthfully, if he had known his friendship with Erin was going to blossom into romance, he probably would not have joined. When it became clear that peacekeepers would be needed to enforce the Dayton Accords in Bosnia, he was ordered to learn Serbo-Croatian and went to Bosnia for an entire year.Upon returning from that crucial experience he and his wife Erin decided that he should get out of the Army and stay in Alaska, where they have now lived since arriving in 1994.