I’ve been watching some interesting movies with my daughter this week. She had me check this out because it’s her favorite food-related movie-right behind 100 Foot Journey and Julie and Julia. After seeing this movie, it made me hungry. It also made me want to travel again. When I was on the show Footloose 21…
Read moreTeam Crad
My little man and I played ball in the park today for a while by ourselves. I was showing him how to keep moving on the court, how to cut to the basket and a few more basketball fundamentals. I’m not a coach and never played past the 8th grade but I’ve played a few…
Read moreQuarantined At Home With Kids
I love finding memes on the internet. I often think they’re hilarious. This one? Not so much. Here’s where I get off the “I have to spend time at home with my kids” bandwagon. I don’t have to, I get to. Being at home with my kids is a blessing. Too many of us squander…
Read moreShared Parenting During The Coronavirus Pandemic
I am in a unique position. I share my children equally with my ex-wife. We have a joint legal and physical custody arrangement – also known as shared parenting. We’ve been successfully co-parenting our two children since we finalized our divorce settlement in 2008. When our children were younger, we strictly adhered to this parenting plan…
Read moreMy 3-Year-Old Son is a Girl Now
This seems like more of a documentary than a parody. Clayton Craddock is an independent thinker, father of two beautiful children in New York City. He is the drummer of the hit broadway musical Ain’t Too Proud. He earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from Howard University’s School of Business and is a 25 year veteran…
Read moreGame Night!
We’ve been having a post-thanksgiving game night with our kids for the last few years. It started out when my high school friend Larisa invited me and my family over the day after Thanksgiving. Back then, we just hung out, had some food, talked and our kids, how it sometimes sucks getting old…and we just…
Read moreMonday’s
Monday’s are special to me. It has been my only day off from work since I left the day-job era of my life and became a full-time professional musician. Monday’s are the only time I have my kids overnight. My parenting time is from 7:15AM-6PM during the weekdays and I also have them during the…
Read moreThey Grow Fast!
Either someone at Google Photos is watching all of my videos to compile this, or the facial recognition technology is pretty damn good. I didn’t put this together. I found it in my “movies” section online. I think it’s pretty cool but creepy. I remember every single frame of this (probably because I took the…
Read moreHow do you spell dad? It goes L-O-V-E
Waking up at the crack of dawn sucks. It just does. Well, it does for me. I’ve never been a morning person. I never will be. I like to get up at about 9 or 10AM. Well, that’s just not the life I’ve chosen to live. You see, I get up so early for a…
Read moreSingle Fatherhood in New York City
Back in 2012, I completed an interview for a Columbia University graduate student of journalism named Acacia Squires. She found me through a post I made on a website about single parenthood and thought I would be a good person to talk with about my experiences being a single father in New York City. I…
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