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Seeing The Everyday Magazine: A Father’s Review

By Tyler ⋅ June 24, 2008 ⋅  Email this post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment ⋅

When I was younger and my parents were still married, my old man would spend a lot of time out in the garage tinkering with everything from the cars to one of his many wood working tools.

I would always love spending time out there with him…hot or cold…we’d spend time just hanging out and I’d ask him question after question…just wanting to spend time with my dad.

When I had the opportunity to review Seeing The Everyday magazine, I started to tear up when I read a story by Joel Frost called “Now where did I put the wrench?” It’s a short story about a dad and his son spending time together fixing things. The dad keeps asking his son “Where did I put that wrench?” and his son would be right there to help out his dad.

I wasn’t expecting such a powerful and touching story to come out of a magazine. But when you read Seeing The Everyday you soon begin to realize that the everyday, simple things in life define you as a parent.

“Finding poetry in the prosaic” is the tag line for Seeing the Everyday. Every supporting article emphasizes the fact that those everyday little moments are often the ones with the greatest impact and lasting memories to our children.

As a father, I get lost in the big world of “grown up” things and feel like I have to be great at big and important matters to be a successful father. What I often forget, and what Seeing the Everyday inspires you to see, is all the little things that make fatherhood such a rewarding challenge.

The website says it best:

Seeing The Everyday is a quarterly, advertisement-free magazine focusing on the daily interactions taking place at home. Although these exchanges are often seen as mundane or inconsequential, the sum of our daily exchanges is what shapes a family, for better for worse. Building a strong family is a prosaic work.

Not only is the magazine free of advertisements, it’s very well put together. The photography is artistic and comfortable while successfully adding value to the story. The pages are easy to the touch and they feature a simple matte finish that fits well with the photography and lay out. Don’t miss the .pdf sample (6 pages | 547 kb).

Seeing The Everyday is full of different types of stories for moms and dads. In the edition that I was able to review, there are relevant and inspiring stories about:

• Eating
• Working
• Playing
• Listening
• Building
• Laughing
• Teaching
• Reading
• Remembering
• Reciting
• and Sharing

If you’ve enjoyed my review, don’t forget to sign up for a subscription here.

I’m inspired to know that there are many other people out there that know and want to share that being a good father and helping to build a strong family is much harder than some might think.

I want to thank Jared Crocker for giving me the opportunity to read and review Seeing The Everyday. You guys have a wonderful magazine and I hope more fathers can experience your magazine and realize the importance of all the little things we do.

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