June 19th, 2009 in Lifestyle

5 Ways To Celebrate Father’s Day, When Your Child is Still a Baby

5 Ways To Celebrate Father's Day, When Your Kid is still a Baby

Father’s Day is just around the corner. Besides taking the kids to the beach or having brunch at a nice restaurant, here are 5 ideas for dads to use web and social technologies to make this day even more memorable.

Tweet with the kid.
Whether you are at a Father’s Day barbeque party or at a jazz concert, live-tweet the event and give short updates on what’s going on. You can share photos with your Twitter followers by using third-party services such as Twitpic and Pikchur.
Create a “Dad and Kids” moment on your iPhone.
You want to form a rock band with your kids and perform on stage? Or take mom and the kids to Mars? Apparently there is an iPhone App called Dad’s Perfect Baby that just does that. It lets you superimpose your face (or your little one’s) onto cute cartoon bodies and share with friends.
Start baby blogging.
A lot of dads are tech-savvy and already keep personal blogs. However, there are several parents-friendly blogging sites out there that gives you a different experience as a blogger. For example, Baveo lets you create a public page for your baby; Wee Web offers baby-oriented prompts such as “How’s your kid today?”, “What makes your baby giggle?“; Keepaboo lets you create 3D flip book for your babies’ photos. These sites are meant to make your blogging life as a parent fun and easy.
Sing online karaoke with the kid.
What’s more fun than singing your heart out with the mom and the kid and turn your house into a concert hall? The Karaoke Channel offers a huge selection of songs and let you record yourself (as long as you have a webcam and a microphone). You can share your karaoke recordings via email, or publishing directly to your Facebook or Deli.cio.us accounts.
Feature your family on a magazine cover.
You have tons of family photos and want to showcase them in a glamorous way? flauntR, an online photo editor, provides a rich collection (20+) of mock magazine covers. You can choose your best photos from your PC or web albums. In just one click, your and your kid would instantly become the cover story!

How will you celebrate Father’s day with your kids?

WRITER'S BIOGRAPHY

Leon Ho

Leon Ho has a decade of experience in technology and the Internet. He was a manager of Software Engineering at Red Hat, Inc. and led an international team of software engineers. In 2007, Leon left Red Hat to launch Stepcase as an umbrella for both Stepcase Lifehack and Stepcase Apps. Recently, he won the #4 spot in BusinessWeek's Top 24 Young Asian Entrepreneurs.

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Play Games Win Prizes says on June 19th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
I personally think it’s “overkill” to do all this with your child…
What happened to old-fashioned REAL fun? :)
-Mike
Lindsay says on June 19th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
I don’t really think these suggestions are appropriate for Father’s Day. Being a father has nothing to do with any of these activities.
Dan says on June 19th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
I think these ideas are awful. I’m re-reading this and thinking, “Is this some sort of joke that I can’t see through?”
Tweet with your kid? Y’know, call me old fashion, but how about “read your kid a book.” Do you want your memories of your kid’s childhood to be of some ADHD-laden internet fad? How about you don’t use web-based social technologies and just try to, y’know, be a dad?
I think sharing photos of your kid is something useful to do, but it’s not something you can do with your kid on father’s day. Just ’cause you can use an iPhone app with your kid doesn’t mean you should. This is the time of their lives when developmentally they need human attention the most. So give it to them. To their face.
prayerthegate says on June 19th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
I think you offered some unique ideas. Father’s day is an interesting holiday. It seems we go all out for Mom with cards and flowers and breakfast or dinner out. The sale circulars in the papaer are about grilling out. So dad is supposed to cook his own dinner?
I like that you were looking at new technology and integrating the young with the old.
Enjoy Father’s Day this weekend. I think my son is taking his dad for a round of golf. We won’t make him cook. I can see we need to take photos.
James at BabySpot.com says on June 19th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
Great 5 tips! I know I will be enjoying my boys by the beach! Then I will posting the photos and videos on my BabySpot. Fun way to share our babies pictures and videos for free!
Aki says on June 20th, 2009 at 10:00 am
Hey, baby’s Mom, never too late, let take action from this year !
timgray says on June 22nd, 2009 at 9:43 am
Enjoy it when they are little, because when they turn 16 they become whiny if they have to spend an entire day with you.
Vik @ Wee Web says on June 23rd, 2009 at 9:46 am
Thanks for posting about Wee Web, the fastest and easiest way to privately share your baby’s life with family and close friends. Unlike other sites where sharing is done publicly, Wee Web has made everything super-private, because we know that matters to parents.
Andrew says on June 24th, 2009 at 10:41 am
Sorry to say that but they are not good ideas at all, too much imagination from a guy who is still single…..