As I was putting together the Newsletter this week and trying to work out what to talk about in Warwick’s absence, lo and behold an article shows up about the town of Warwick in Southern Queensland, where they’ll be holding a breakfast later this month to talk about men’s health and fatherhood. It must be fated that we look at the issue of men’s health, especially in the lead up to ...
Someone asked me what I personally thought the highlight was for the World Congress of Families IX (WCF9), Salt Lake City, Utah. My answer is simple. Meeting people who are passionate for building the best future for our children. Our children do best when raised by a married mother and father. Thousands of studies show this to be the case. To quote Rebecca O'Neill from Civitas. "The weight of evidence indicates ...
Guest blog by Kevin Bailey We all want to be a great example to our children. No new father ever sets out to deliberately lead their child astray but sometimes our weaknesses get in the way of our aspirations. If we are to be any use to our children we have to learn to pick ourselves up and dust ourselves off and begin again with a renewed purpose to be the ...
William Shakespeare, speaking about marital love between a man and a woman, said "Love is a many splendored thing." He is regarded as the best poet and playwright of all recorded history. William Shakespeare lived in the 1500s but scientists are just finding out today that he knew what he was talking about. The key to staying in love with your wife is embracing the complexity that the challenge of ...
Running the recent Dads4Kids Instagram Photo Competition has been one of the most rewarding and emotional experiences of my life. Probably most of the photos were taken while dads spent time with their children. However many of the shots were taken in order to enter the competition - precisely the point of the exercise. The really good news is that we believe this competition has reached over 100,000 people with its ...
People, especially the media, are happy to talk about problems. Bad news sells! But very few people, especially the media, are happy to talk about the answers to domestic violence. Miranda Devine went to the heart of the problem in an article recently called Demonising Men Won’t Stop Domestic Violence: It is a grim portent that Malcolm Turnbull’s first policy announcement as Prime Minister was a $100 million gimmick blaming domestic ...
I can fondly remember the fun times I had with my Dad when I was a boy. My brother and I would wrestle Dad on the lounge room floor. The punishment, if either of us got caught, was being in the hands of the proverbial Tickle Monster. Tickling was horrific but joyful torture at the hands of Daddy - the Tickle Monster, but little did we know at the time, that ...
The mission of Dads4Kids is to improve the well-being of children by increasing the proportion of children growing up with involved, responsible, committed and loving fathers. You might well ask the question, “How do we do this?” This is a question the team at Dads4Kids asks themselves every day. Simply put, we have to inspire more love in the fathers we connect with. Again you ask, “How do you inspire fathers ...
The week from the 13 – 19 September is Marriage Week. This is a week that we can all get excited about because marriage and fatherhood are two sides of the same coin. Alison and I have always been passionate about having a good marriage and supporting and encouraging marriages everywhere. Our motivation, on my part, comes from the pain I experienced from growing up in a divided home: when Mum ...
Here we are, another Father’s Day, another year, and a big thanks to Sonora Louise Smart (1842 – 1919) from the USA, who was the founder of Father’s Day. Mother’s Day was formally initiated in 1908 by Anna Jarvis in the USA. Two years later Sonora, a devout women of faith, began to advocate for Father’s Day. In June 2010 in an address to the Spokane Christian Ministers’ Association, Sonora Louise ...
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