When my wife and I first started Dads4Kids in 2002, we discovered that fathers, and men in general, are barely noticed in government policy. Dads4Kids is a Harm Prevention Charity and our fundamental role is to work at a grass roots level, encouraging individual men to go for gold as fathers, for the sake of their families. Our initial research showed us that men are largely invisible to government agencies and ...
Some parents bring up their children on thunder and lightning, but thunder and lightning never made anything grow. As a dad with strong opinions about injustice and a passion for the truth, I can easily fall into this trap myself. No doubt at times I have. Thankfully my children have forgiven me for my occasional rants. This week, you will have to as well. The topic is ‘Working Together for Men ...
Tarzan’s Grip or Loctite is the best way to glue materials together. Both of these adhesives are commonly called ‘superglues’. But what is the best way to glue families together? Marriage is the superglue that bonds families together like no other adhesive! Marriage protects our children. Marriage guarantees our children’s future. Marriage protects our finances and our children’s finances. Marriage protects men and marriage protects women. Best of all, marriage protects ...
Well I got my card in the mail today, and I don’t mean a Father’s Day card. I am now, according to the NSW Government ‘a senior’. Because so much of our work is voluntary my wife put me in for a seniors card. It gives me some discounts for train travel and a few other privileges but I must admit I preferred my non-senior status, but at 60 my wife ...
You as a father have a lot of reasons to be happy. Each of your children gives you well over a million reasons. Add your wife and family as a total unit and you now have well over a billion reasons to be happy. In the light of all this, being happy on Father’s Day should come easy to you. Could it get any better? We know that we all have ...
Great news! This Thursday 4 September, Aaron Dickson will be coming to Australia as a guest of Dads4Kids to help and inspire Aussie dads. This tour will be called ‘Love Your Children’ Tour (code for fatherhood explosion) – Australia, look out!! We already have Aaron booked in at Sunrise Channel 7 for 7.45am on Friday 5 September, prime time in TV land. Later that morning he will also be on Channel ...
If watching this YouTube video doesn’t touch your heart nothing will. I ignored the tear jerker alert posted below the video, much to my discomfort. By the end of the video I was bawling like a baby. With six million views and climbing it seems I am not alone. There is something extraordinarily inspirational about a truck driving dad who obviously can’t dance, endeavouring to dance with his beautiful 12 ...
Sometimes, for me, books become my best friends. I am a very inquisitive soul at the best of times. I love reading and I also strongly identify with Scrooge McDuck and all his Scottish ancestry. Maybe it's because I can still remember my Scottish grandmother saying things like, "Waste not, want not", or "Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves." For all those Generation X's, my grandmother ...
‘Your Wife is Beautiful’ is the title for this week’s newsletter, I proudly announced to my wife. “Why not call it ‘Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder’? or ‘You are Beautiful’?” my wife inquired. She was trying to be inclusive of those readers who are not married to the mother of their children. “No”, I said, “I want men to marry the woman they love, the mother of their ...
In the last newsletter we posted a video called First Date. It now has 8.3 million hits. Last week we posted the news story with an interview about this touching father daughter story on our Dads4Kids Facebook page. See the Daddy-Daughter Date Goes Viral below. The TV news story description said, “Some viewers are calling the father-daughter date heart warming, while others say it's "very creepy." The response on our Facebook ...
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