Denver dad Chris Sekirnjak is a longtime contributor for Mile High Mamas and the author of Denver Playgrounds & Parks: A guide to the best play areas in metro Denver. In honor of Father’s Day, we asked him how he got started. Tell us a bit about your family. My wife and I met in […]

Happy Father’s Day! This is a full week for me as both my dad’s birthday as well as Father’s Day land on the same week. I intend to do some grilling with him – and maybe go fishing as well. What do you do to celebrate your dad? We have rounded up some AWESOME dad’s […]

You remember the first time a baby photo from your good friends popped up on Facebook. Wow. They made the leap. They had become grown-ups. Good for them, but definitely not something for you and the wife. Of course, after a while, it became a regular occurrence. Every other post was a new little alien […]

After the year we have had, wonderful dads need to be celebrated more than ever. As a head’s up, Father’s Day is Sunday, June 20, 2021 and Denver has so many awesome things Dad–and the whole family–will love. Visit Denver has some awesome ideas including ‘The Shining’ at Film on the Rocks and checking out […]

My sister and I took my mom to the Art Museum last week for her birthday. The museum has a great exhibit, Paris to Hollywood that features the fashion and influence of Veronique and Gregory Peck. The dresses were spectacular and what was more fun was that my mom said she had some dresses like […]

  Disagreements and parenting – two things that seem to hit just about every parent. The question is does it have to cripple your relationship? Does believing in time-out vs. sticker chore chart really need to be something that after years of not being resolved causes divorce?    Nope. It doesn’t. Let’s talk about why […]

Pandemic parenting’s no joke. But there’s still little bits of gold in this dark mineshaft that COVID has forced us into. That mineshaft – our world – is smaller now. With less in the outside, we’ve turned inward, toward the people we live with. It can be as intense as an overstuffed oven. I’ve had […]

We love our Mile High Fathers.  Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers and singers of song. -Pam Brown A good father is one of the most underpraised, unnoticed and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society. -Billy Graham My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could […]

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, […]

Yes or no: Is parenting overrated?  A new video debates this question, bringing new research to one of the oldest questions in child-rearing: nature vs. nurture. In this Oxford-style debate held by Intelligence Squared U.S., twin researcher Nancy Segal and behavioral geneticist Robert Plomin argue that parenting is indeed overrated and that the latest studies […]