About DadSkills

Being a dad comes with a steady stream of small, practical questions. What’s a fair allowance for a seven-year-old, and how do you keep payday consistent? If you put a little away each month, what will it actually add up to by the time college comes around? Is your kid’s height and weight roughly where you’d expect for their age? Where does the money go once there are children in the house? Which car-seat stage or bike size fits right now? And how much screen time is reasonable on a school night? None of these are hard on their own, but working them out by hand, over and over, is where the day gets away from you.

DadSkills exists to take that arithmetic off your plate. Instead of long articles you have to read end to end, the site is built around a set of small, single-purpose calculators, each aimed at one part of raising kids. The Allowance & Chore Calculator sets a fair weekly allowance from your child’s age and chores, with an optional save/spend/give split so payday teaches money habits. The College Savings Calculator projects what a monthly contribution grows to by age 18 with compound growth, and works out the monthly amount needed to hit a tuition goal. The Child Growth Percentile Calculator estimates where your child’s height and weight fall on the growth curve for their age and sex, as a quick reference rather than a medical opinion. The Family Budget Calculator splits monthly take-home pay across needs, wants, and savings with the 50/30/20 rule and shows per-category targets for a household with kids. The Car Seat & Bike Size Finder matches a car-seat stage and bike wheel size to your child’s age, height, and weight, with the safety milestones for each stage. And the Screen Time Budget Planner builds a realistic daily screen-time budget around sleep, school, and activities by age.

Beyond the calculators, the blog and learn section cover hands-on skills, teaching kids, and the reasoning behind the numbers the tools produce, and The Fatherhood & Craft Museum is a browsable collection spanning fatherhood and family through history; tools, trades, and DIY; childhood and growing up; and outdoor life and rites of passage, with every entry, image, and fact drawn from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.

A few things worth stating plainly. DadSkills is an independent site, not affiliated with any pediatrician, financial adviser, school, or car-seat or bike manufacturer. It is supported by advertising, which is how the tools stay free with no account required. Every result the tools produce — an allowance, a savings projection, a growth percentile, a budget split, a car-seat stage or bike size, a screen-time budget — is a general estimate built on the numbers you enter and on common rules of thumb, not a professional, medical, or financial determination. For anything that actually matters — your child’s health and growth, car-seat and bike safety, and financial decisions in particular — check with your pediatrician, the product’s manufacturer, or a qualified professional before you rely on it. If something looks off in a tool or an article, or you think a calculator is missing that would help, the contact page is the place to say so.