May 2015

The Secret Power of Thanks

Next Saturday, 30th May 2015, we celebrate Australia’s 12th National Day of Thanksgiving. www.thanksgiving.org.au The National Day of Thanksgiving is a day we can use to say ‘thank you’ to those around us. I am ‘thankful’ to say that I have been privileged to be part of this national celebration from its earliest beginnings although I resigned from the Board last year to make way for new blood. I believe in ...

By |2015-05-23T04:56:58+10:00May 23rd, 2015|Dads, FAITH, FAMILIES, Other Topics|0 Comments

Laughter Medicine for Body & Soul

Being a father carries with it some pretty serious responsibilities. That is why it is so important to learn to laugh, and that’s why we at Dads4Kids publish weekly doses of humour for busy dads. In 1979 Norman Cousins wrote, ‘Anatomy of an Illness (As Perceived by the Patient)’. Cousins had Ankylosing Spondylitis, a rheumatoid-like disorder. Considering the hospital noisy and impersonal, Cousins checked into a hotel room where he read ...

By |2021-05-14T13:16:16+10:00May 16th, 2015|Dads, HUMOUR, MENS HEALTH, Other Topics|0 Comments

Courage Under Fire

Our life always speaks. Sometimes our life can speak louder in our death than in our actual living. For me, I am still working at the living part, but for Andrew Chan his death has touched a nation, and arguably the whole world, in a way that his living could not. Australia was plunged into deep sadness with the midnight execution of Andrew Chan and his seven friends by firing squad ...

By |2015-05-09T11:32:16+10:00May 9th, 2015|Dads, FAITH, MANHOOD|0 Comments

Mother’s the Word

I will never forget the story I once read of a young woman in China after World War II. The country was in turmoil, there were millions of refugees and it was the middle of winter. As the woman trudged through the snow in sub-zero temperatures she hugged close her six month old baby. The little protection she had from the cold was wrapped around her baby boy. Early the next ...

By |2015-05-02T03:31:51+10:00May 2nd, 2015|Dads, FAMILIES|0 Comments
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