Billy Joel, Dee Snider, Pat Benatar, and more opine on the enduring appeal of the late troubadour's hit about a father-son ...

Thank you for creating and curating this list of parenthood songs; my wife and I love it! (Also, Track of the Day is great for this non-musical pleb : ) Check out Everclear’s “Father of Mine” and ...

Topping the charts when it was first released—and Chapin’s sole No. 1 hit— the opening track of his 1974 album Verities & Balderdash, “Cats in the Cradle,” has remained a folk-rock classic, reemerging ...

Those of us who grew up with fathers who weren’t there for us tended to feel, at the time, like we were the only ones on the planet who had this problem. But "Cat’s in the Cradle" blasted a message ...

When I see a dad playing catch with a young son in a park, my mind goes back to the song “Cat’s in the Cradle;” a lingering melody written in 1974 that holds the same powerful meaning today as it did ...

UPDATE: You can now watch the full 90-second commercial above. The Super Bowl is the perfect time to turn off the TV and pay more attention to your children as they grow. That’s the message we’re ...

I started calling him “Shwa” when he was a toddler. It’s short for Joshua. Call me a lazy young father, even with linguistics. It used to confuse people when they first met us, this baby-faced white ...

Two days after his son was born, Peter Bertucci walked out of the hospital alone. The boy, eight weeks premature and struggling with a collapsed lung, remained in intensive care with his mother at his ...