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Boot Camp For New Dads Shares Budget Friendly Activities To Do With Baby

Greg Bishop, founder of Boot Camp for New Dads, a non-profit orientation program for fathers-to-be, operating in more than 260 hospitals, clinics, schools, fire stations and churches around North America and internationally, and author of two books on fathering, offers 12 budget friendly activities to do with baby.

 

Below, Bishop shares input from working with more than 200,000 new dads over the past 18 years and an excerpt from his most recent book Crash Course for New Dads: Tools, Checklists and Cheat Sheets:

 

• Take a tour of your own house with baby in a front carrier, letting him/her grab things within reach.
• Sing songs together. It doesn't matter if it's a lullaby or rock ‘n' roll as long as it's repetitive and sung with enthusiasm.
• Give him/her airplane rides through the house or yard.
• Create some tall buildings with blocks then let him/her knock them down.
• Put baby in a carrier and go on short hiking adventures.
• Build an indoor obstacle course with pillows and sheets for tunnels that baby will enjoy crawling through.
• Start a kitchen band with pots and pans and spoons and really make some noise.
• Play "hide and seek" with toys to teach him/her how to find his/her hidden treasures.
• Encourage your little artist with crayons or non-toxic finger paint. Spread newspaper on the kitchen floor and cover with drawing paper.
• Bring the bath and beach toys into the tub along with a colander and let baby have a blast sinking ships and making "rain".
• Make funny faces together while looking in a mirror. Use shaving cream to give baby a mirror beard and moustache.
• Make junior an instant sports fan. Watch your favorite team together on TV and practice doing the wave.

 

According to Bishop, "Research has shown that babies benefit from time spent with dad, doing what comes naturally to dads, such as roughhousing, playing and simply showing him/her the world.  Best of all, these activities don't cost a thing."

 

Tips, Advice, Instructions and more

Greg Bishop offers strategies from more than 200,000 new dads that have gone through the Boot Camp for New Dads program in his second book, Crash Course for New Dads:  Tools, Checklists and Cheat Sheets.  His first book, Hit the Ground Crawling, covers work balance, being a dad, caring for a new mom and much more.  Both books are available online at www.DadsAdventure.com.

 

New Dads Learn What to Expect at Boot Camp Workshops

Dads-to-be will be better equipped to face the challenges and opportunities of fatherhood after attending a Boot Camp "hands on" educational workshop. Men attend the class when they are expecting their first baby, and are joined in the workshop by "veterans" who had previously attended and have returned with their two to four-month-old baby in tow.  They are able to give the dads-to-be a realistic idea of what to do and what to expect when their first baby comes.  For many men attending, it's their first time holding a baby.

 

Boot Camp for New Dads        

Now celebrating their 18th year, Boot Camp for New Dads is nationally acclaimed as the "Best Practice" for preparing men to be fathers and has been named a U.S. Navy Model Program.  Boot Camp for New Dads has prepared more than 200,000 men for fatherhood over the years. 

           

With more than 4.1 million births (National Center for Health Statistics), and approximately 1.5 million men becoming new dads every year, it's more important than ever for fathers to realize that being a "good provider" is only part of the very central role they have in their children's lives. 

 

For more information about Boot Camp for New Dads, visit www.bcnd.org, or to visit Dads Adventure, go to www.Dadsadventure.com.  To arrange an interview with Greg Bishop, please contact sdubin@prworkzone.com, (781) 582-1061.

 

National and International Locations

Boot Camp For New Dads locations include ALASKA (Anchorage); ARIZONA (Chandler, Flagstaff, Gilbert, Mesa, Phoenix, Scottsdale, Sun City); ARKANSAS (Jonesboro, Paragould, Springdale); CALIFORNIA (Apple Valley, Bakersfield, , Fresno, Garden Grove, Irvine, Laguna Hills, Madera, Merced, Mission Hills, , Oakland, Orange, Pomona, Port Hueneme, San Diego, Santa Ana, Santa Barbara, , S. Lake Tahoe, Travis, Valley Springs); COLORADO (Aurora, Boulder, Colorado Springs, Denver, Durango, Fort Collins, Fort Carson, Greeley, Longmont, Thornton, Wheat Ridge); CONNECTICUT (Bristol, Danbury, New London); FLORIDA (Brandon, Clearwater, Hollywood, Jacksonville, North Palm Beach, Orlando, St. Petersburg, West Palm Beach, Sarasota, Tampa); GEORGIA (Atlanta, Elberton, Gainesville, Marietta, Savannah); HAWAII (Pearl Harbor, Schofield); ILLINOIS (Aurora, Carbondale, Champaign, Chicago, East St. Louis, Evanston, Freeport, Geneva, Great Lakes, Highland Park, Libertyville, Moline, Oak Park, Rockford, Springfield, Urbana, Winfield); INDIANA (Anderson, Bluffton, Hammond, Indianapolis, Jeffersonville, Kokomo); IOWA (Cedar Rapids, Des Moines, Jefferson, Sioux City); KANSAS (Junction City, Topeka); KENTUCKY (Paducah); LOUISIANA (Covington); MAINE (Auburn, Augusta, Bangor, Brunswick, Ellsworth, Waterville); MARYLAND (Annapolis) MASSACHUSETTS (Beverly, Ipswich, Lowell, Nantucket, Plymouth, Weymouth, Springfield); MICHIGAN (, Ann Arbor, Bay City, Centreville, Iron Mountain, Ithaca, Kalamazoo, Niles, St Joseph, Ypsilanti); MINNESOTA (Brainerd, Duluth, Robbinsdale); MISSISSIPPI (Tupelo); MISSOURI (Jefferson City) MONTANA (Billings, Helena, Miles City); NEBRASKA (Kearney, Lincoln, Omaha); NEVADA (Las Vegas) NEW HAMPSHIRE (Manchester, Portsmouth); NEW JERSEY (Princeton) NEW YORK (Glens Falls, Little Falls, Mineola, Rome, Utica); NORTH CAROLINA (Burlington, Chapel Hill, Charlotte, Concord, Ft. Bragg, Greensboro, Monroe, Raleigh, Shelby); NORTH DAKOTA (Grand Forks); OHIO (Akron, Cleveland, Columbus, East Cleveland, East Liverpool, Garfield Heights, Lima, Lorain, Mayfield Heights, Middleburg Heights, Orange Village, Portsmouth, Toledo, Warren, Westlake, Youngstown); OKLAHOMA (Claremore, Oklahoma City, Tulsa); OREGON (Corvalis, McMinnville, Salem, Silverton); SOUTH CAROLINA (Columbia, Pickens, Walhalla); TENNESSEE (Chattanooga, Knoxville, Memphis); TEXAS (Amarillo, Dallas, Fort Hood, Longview, Lubbock, Plano, San Antonio, Texarkana, Waco, Webster); VERMONT (Barre, Brattleboro, Middlebury); VIRGINIA (Charlottesville, Chesapeake, Hampton, Richmond) WASHINGTON (Everett, Fairchild AFB, Longview, Olympia, Puyallup, Yakima); WEST VIRGINIA (Wheeling); WISCONSIN (Florence, Green Bay, Madison, Oshkosh, Watertown, Wausau); JAPAN (Atsugi, Yokosuka), ITALY (Sicily); UNITED KINGDOM [a.k.a. Hit the Ground Crawling] (Birmingham, Liverpool)

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What is a daily schedule for someone in navy boot camp while they are there?

My fiance just left for navy boot camp & I havent received a letter or phone call from him yet. Just wondering what he does on day to day basis while he is there & how early should i expect to here from him.
thanks

-Wake up 6:00 am sometimes earlier if they have to be somewhere
-Hygiene-brush teeth and shave
-6:30-45 eat chow, 12 minutes to eat
-Then either PT, go to class, go to some sort of activity like shooting range, or just go back to the compartment and get I.T.(intensive Training) for doing something wrong.
-12 lunch
-go back to compartment sit around and do nothing some more.. then get I.Ted.
-Fold some clothes
-Get your clothes thrown by RDC
-refold
-March around outside and practice drill
-Go back to compartment and get I.Ted for failing at marching.
-7:30-8:00 eat dinner.
-Hygiene (10 minutes for 80 people to shower in a small room)
-Get I.Ted for not doing it fast enough
-Pass out laundry
-Fold
-I.T.ed for failing at folding and talking
-9:55 Pray
-10:00 Taps Taps (sleep)
-10:02-11:00 yell at everyone to shut up because you're trying to sleep
-11:03 fall asleep
-11:05 get woke up to Iron your shirt and pants.
-11:06-11:25 ironing..
-11:26 head (bathroom)
-11:30 fall asleep
-11:40 Get woken up, your turn to go on Watch..
-11:45-1:45 Watch
-1:46 sleep..
-6:00 REVEILLE REVEILLE!! Rinse and repeat for 2 months..

Right now though if he just left all he is doing is standing in lines all day doing admin stuff, this is the worst part of bootcamp, he'll have alot of time to think about the 'horrible' decision he thinks he just made. The first day you get there they dont let you sleep the whole night.. this will be the longest day of his life, by the time he gets to sleep the next day he'll literally feel as if hes been there a week already.. then he'll remember its still the first day. He should have givin you a call when he first got there just to let you know he got there safe and then he would of had to hang up. He wont have time to write you until sunday, you get a holiday then and are allowed until 8 to 1 to hang out in the compartment and talk or write letters, shine your boots, and go to church if you want. You should be writing him letters as often as you can though, you have no idea how much of a moral booster getting letters can be, it just makes your day. Don't worry about not hearing from him right now because hes got alot on his plate.

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