{"id":225724,"date":"2020-06-21T09:30:01","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T14:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=225724"},"modified":"2020-06-21T19:00:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T00:00:28","slug":"dad-diy-videos-kids-without-dads-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/dad-diy-videos-kids-without-dads-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY videos for kids without dads have reached millions on YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Dads matter. Just ask anyone who grew up without one. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCNepEAWZH0TBu7dkxIbluDw\">Rob Kenny&#8217;s<\/a> dad\u2014who had been given full custody of Rob and his seven siblings due to their mother&#8217;s struggles with alcoholism\u2014walked out on them when Rob was a teen. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/parents\/dad-how-do-i-creator-rob-kenney-shares-advice-life-t183923\">TODAY.com<\/a>, Kenny&#8217;s newlywed older brother Rick then took him into his house and under his wing, teaching him what his father should have in his growing up years.<\/p>\n<p>Now in his 50s and married with two adult children of his own, Kenny has started a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCNepEAWZH0TBu7dkxIbluDw\">YouTube channel<\/a> called, &#8220;Dad, How do I?&#8221; On the channel, he doles out &#8220;dadvice&#8221; for kids who don&#8217;t have fathers in their lives to teach them hands-on skills and overall life lessons. As of the publication of this article, the channel had 2.27 million subscribers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1-O7zuaZsAA\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countryliving.com\/life\/inspirational-stories\/a32601738\/dad-how-do-i-youtube-channel-rob-kenney\/\">Country Living<\/a>, &#8220;85 percent of his audience is women aged 25 to 40,&#8221; which makes sense, given the content of many of Kenny&#8217;s videos. Tutorials include how to fix toilets, how to change tires, how to jumpstart a car, how to iron a dress shirt, and more. Videos on the channel are broken down into five categories: Tool Tuesdays, Dad Chats, How Tos&#8230; Bathroom Edition, How Tos&#8230; Car Edition, and a miscellaneous How Tos section.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Found a YouTube channel of this guy who&#39;s Dad walked out on him when he was 12.<\/p>\n<p>Now a dad to two (adult) kids himself, he&#39;s made a YouTube Channel called &quot;Dad, How Do I?&quot; &#8211; where he makes maintenance videos for people with no Dads.<\/p>\n<p>His channel: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HCx6KeYdW7\">https:\/\/t.co\/HCx6KeYdW7<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4D6lfu0yLs\">pic.twitter.com\/4D6lfu0yLs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bruce Wayne | The Wizard (@FaisalTreShah) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FaisalTreShah\/status\/1262160291598606337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>But viewers aren&#8217;t simply coming for help changing a car battery.\u00a0Based on the comments section alone, his videos are hitting home and filling an emotional and familial need nationwide and even across the world.<\/p>\n<p>Rob&#8217;s typical greeting at the start of each video is, &#8220;Hey Kids!&#8221; One commenter noted, &#8220;When you say &#8216;Hey Kids&#8217; I automatically want to say &#8216;Hey Dad.'&#8221; Another person wrote, &#8220;You said &#8216;hey kids!&#8217; and I had to like, pause and regroup for a sec. Thank you for this.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1-O7zuaZsAA\">Other comments<\/a> reference the &#8220;dad jokes&#8221; he includes at the beginning of each video, with commenters on a recent video sharing jokes of their own after a newly posted video didn&#8217;t have one. A recent comment on another video read, &#8220;the only man in my life that has told me he&#8217;s proud of me.&#8221; Others have said that Kenny is like &#8220;Mister Rogers for adults.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b0BdYqUcAZs\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On June 15th, Kenny\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b0BdYqUcAZs\">announced<\/a> that he is partnering with Lowe&#8217;s for a #dadbuiltthis challenge to recognize the dads across the country who are showing up day in and day out for their families. Lowe&#8217;s will surprise hundreds of dads with gift cards to support their DIYing and encourage them to keep fighting the good fight.<\/p>\n<p>Rob Kenny&#8217;s videos are bringing hope and inspiration to millions. Good one, Dad.<\/p>\n<p><em>\ufeffThe author dedicates this article to her dad, who showed up day in and day out to teach hands-on skills and life lessons while his seven kids were growing up.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dads matter. Just ask anyone who grew up without one. Rob Kenny&#8217;s dad\u2014who had been given full custody of Rob and his seven siblings due to their mother&#8217;s struggles with alcoholism\u2014walked out on them when Rob was a teen. According to TODAY.com, Kenny&#8217;s newlywed older brother Rick then took him into his house and under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":635,"featured_media":225927,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[9455,3473],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DIY videos for kids without dads have reached millions on YouTube<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Viewers aren&#039;t simply coming for help changing a car battery.\u00a0His videos are filling an emotional and familial need nationwide and even across the world.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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