About Tommy Riles

Tom Riles is a husband, father, and original founder of Life of Dad, the largest community of dads in the world. Riles is also the long-time audience warm-up comedian for “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” in addition to hundreds of other TV shows in Los Angeles. Riles started the Life of Dad community from a hospital room as his daughter was awaiting open-heart surgery at only three days old. His daughter is now a healthy nine-year old, while Riles and his wife, Lucy (who also started Life of Mom), have helped to raise over $1 Million for congenital heart defect awareness and research.

SportsCenter Cures the Flu

It’s been a tough week for our little man.  He has a virus, and has been coughing, sneezing, and crying many hours of the day. The things that we usually do to calm him down (rocking, swaying), don’t seem to be working as well. A couple days ago I [...]

By |2021-08-18T05:09:02-07:00April 18th, 2012|Blog|0 Comments

The Common Cold Olympics

In this year’s Common Cold Olympics, the Riles family is projected to win gold. This family of four has been in serious training for three months now.  Just in the past twenty-four hours, baby boy has been hacking up a mothball, baby girl has a fever and won’t eat, mom [...]

By |2012-04-12T07:24:26-07:00April 12th, 2012|Blog|0 Comments

Eight Reasons Why I Love Bubba

Yesterday Bubba Watson won the 2012 Masters Golf Tournament.  He had a very unlikely win, which featured a sudden death playoff.  Here are eight reasons why I love this man.   1)   Bubba plays golf fearlessly.  He looks forward to the impossible shot, and then he takes it.  Whether he [...]

By |2012-04-09T07:13:50-07:00April 9th, 2012|Blog|0 Comments

Baby Talk

This morning I asked Babs this question. What do you think her answer was? Winner gets a tuna wrap...  The answer will be revealed by Noon PST today. And the answer is revealed...

By |2012-04-06T07:57:53-07:00April 6th, 2012|Blog|0 Comments

Opening Day

Today is Opening Day in Major League Baseball. I love baseball, always have.  I was obsessed with baseball statistics and box scores by the age of five or six.  As I've grown older, I've always thought it would be incredible to share that passion with a son someday.  Well, this [...]

By |2012-04-05T08:45:24-07:00April 5th, 2012|Blog|0 Comments

Letter to Southwest Airlines

After this family of four flew on Southwest Airlines last week, I realized two things... 1)  Southwest is a great airline. 2)  Southwest is not overly baby-friendly. So...today I mailed this letter to Gary Kelly, the Chairman, President, and CEO of Southwest Airlines...   Image from Mike Fisher

By |2012-04-04T05:58:25-07:00April 4th, 2012|Blog|0 Comments

#1 Video of the Year – Extreme Nesting

Man, it's hard to pick my favorite video of the year. Some are better than the rest, and this one made me laugh the most. It's so ridiculous that it is perfect. We introduced the Extreme Nesting Team to assist dads-to-be who have now idea how to prepare a nursery...

By |2012-03-30T01:31:36-07:00March 30th, 2012|Blog|0 Comments
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