Author Archives: Kevin Delp

Facial Expressions and Bonding with Your Baby

Everything is new to a baby. Every single aspect of life is a new and wonderful experience that is soaked up like a sponge. Their little mind will record every little detail that they perceive, and add it to their growing personal reference library of life experience. Not many people know, however, that newborns are unable to focus their eyes. It sometimes takes months for a baby’s eyes to become used to focusing, and thus months for the baby to be able to recognize their daddy’s face. You may have noticed, that your baby will respond to your voice much … Continue reading →

Making Your Own Movies

As a father, I make it a priorit to actively involve times that require me to bond with my family. I make it a priority to make myself available and to come up with things to do that require interaction, conversation and working together. Families don’t get close by chance or by happening to have children who all want to be close. They get close because someone actively encouraged that closeness. With that said, here’s an idea that will be a blast for our family. Try making a movie together. Don’t worry, you shouldn’t aim for Gone with the Wind … Continue reading →

Bonding With Your Baby Through Feeding Times

There are few things more intimate between a father and his child than when he feeds his baby. When you hold your child and give her the nourishment she needs, it is so precious, and you feel so close to her. You hold her close, and keep her safe and warm in a blanket, and she eats and eats until she’s about to fall asleep. You take a moment to clean her mouth, and then gently burp her. The whole time, she’s nestled up against your chest, safe and sound. It feels like everything is right in the world, and … Continue reading →

Family Time Picnic

Dads, whose job is it in your house to promote family time? Many men are content to leave it to mom to do all the social arranging and family fun planning, but I say that we dads need to take active part in planning and promoting family time. One fantastic way to promote family time is to plan a family picnic. What could be more pleasant than an afternoon outdoors with the ones that you love? If you put just a little planning into your outing, it can make all the difference between a memorable family activity, and a family … Continue reading →

Coming Home Again

My oldest child went away from home for the first time this past week. She went to a sleep away camp several hours away. Even months before camp started, it was really hard to get used to the idea of my little baby growing up and going away. She was incredibly excited to go, however, even though it got harder and harder for me to bear the thought. In fact, she was so excited, that she literally counted down the days for months before she was going to leave. Fortunately, the time while she was gone was not totally unbearable. … Continue reading →

The Trouble With Twins

If you have any of my blogs in the past, you probably know that I have five kids, and that the last two came as a matching pair two years ago. Now my twins are not identical, (they are in fact fraternal) but they look awfully similar. In fact if they are not standing side by side together, I have to be no further than five or six feet away to tell them apart. Even then, if I am looking at the first twin Emily, I’m not really sure who it is that I’m looking at. If the other twin, … Continue reading →

Bonding with Your Daughter–Cooking

My wife has instilled a love of the culinary arts in all of our children. Starting from a very early age she has welcomed them into the kitchen to lend a “helping” hand. She doesn’t mind if the kids make a mess as they cook, but then she doesn’t mind if she makes a mess herself, either. She comes from the school of culinary thought where you get an idea from a recipe, and then you customize it, personalize it, and (this is the part that kills me) estimate it. When she is explaining how to make a dish, she … Continue reading →

What Have You Been Doing Online?

I was messing around on-line tonight, and an annoying pop up came on the screen. It asked if I wanted to scan my computer for records of any adult sites that my computer has visited. I didn’t want to be bothered, and I know I haven’t been to any adult websites, so I went to close the pop-up with the red square in the top right corner. That always works. However, instead of closing the pop-up, it took me to the home page of the company that wanted to sell me their adult filter software. The page said that their … Continue reading →

Using Your Voice to Bond with Baby

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Using your voice can be an amazing way to connect with your baby. In fact, numerous studies have shown that babies even begin responding to familiar voices before birth. Why wouldn’t you want to take advantage of this fact and connect with your little bundle of joy before they even become a little bundle of joy? You can do all kinds of things to familiarize baby with daddy’s voice. You can read baby books, sing to baby, talk to baby, or even tell stories to your child. I can tell you from personal experience, you may feel a little silly … Continue reading →

Dancing with Daddy

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Here is an awesome way to bond with your daughter. Dance with her. Don’t wait until her wedding day and your future son in law cuts in after you dance with her to the song, “Daddy’s Little Girl”. Take the chance to dance with her every time you can. My wife and I homeschool our children, and we went on a field trip to Lincoln Center on the West Side of New York City today. There was an event called Lincoln Center Outdoors, and it involved live music from many musical styles and performances of many dance disciplines. It was … Continue reading →