July 2014

Protecting Our Children’s Future

Sociologist David Papenoe said that no civilisation ever survived after its family life deteriorated. But if you don’t believe him, listen to GK Chesterton, “This triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilisations which disregard it.” If three words could ever sum up the work of Dads4Kids it would be ‘father, mother, child’. These three words are the foundation for everything we know. ...

Keeping it Zipped

I am getting older, so my testosterone is dropping, but when I see a naked woman, it is hard not to look twice. The trouble is that these days, naked women are everywhere and they always seem to be looking straight back at me. When I go to the newsagents to buy my daily copy of the Australian, the naked women on the news stand are always looking at me.   When ...

The Power of Play

The Dads4Kids Fatherhood Foundation will be running ten week fathering courses called, ‘Good to Great’ in the later part of this year. ‘Good to Great’ is not a pushover fathering course but a course that is highly interactive and brings real challenge to any aspiring father who wants to go to a much higher level of excellence in his fathering. ‘Good to Great’ is inspired by the SAS, the elite of ...

By |2014-07-12T09:47:05+10:00July 12th, 2014|Dads, Other Topics|0 Comments

Family Factories and Nurturing Fathers

Recently the Weekend Australian Magazine did a story on Fred Hollow's daughters and their visit to Nepal where their renowned father did much of his famous ophthalmology work amongst the poor. Connecting it to Dad has been a lifelong challenge for the Hollows twins, the youngest of the five children of Fred and Gabi Hollows. They were conceived on Anzac Day 1989, when Hollows already knew he was dying from the ...

By |2014-07-05T14:06:59+10:00July 5th, 2014|Dads|0 Comments
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