• dads

    23 December, 2025

    Single fatherhood isn’t about perfection, but presence. This encouraging guide offers four practical, hope-filled strategies to help dads show up, shape hearts, and build a lasting legacy.

    National Center for Fathering

  • Joyeux Noël (Merry Christmas)

    19 December, 2025

    Joyeux Noël (Merry Christmas) tells the incredible true-life story of the spontaneous Christmas Eve truce declared by Scottish, French and German troops during World War I. Like the story of Joyeux Noël, the message of Christmas is one of faith, hope, and ultimately love.

    Nathaniel Marsh

  • parent talk christmas

    18 December, 2025

    For many parents, Christmas means more than just wrapping presents — it might involve thinking about how our children will process the mix of relatives, relationships, and worldviews that will gather under one roof. How do we talk to our children about our family values without alienating relatives we care about?

    Kurt Mahlburg

  • loneliness

    17 December, 2025

    At the heart of genuine generosity is personal relationship. In an age of loneliness, by allowing people to encounter our real – and messy – lives, we create true belonging.

    Byron and Francine Pirola

  • Presence over Presents

    16 December, 2025

    Dads, you are incredibly valuable. The holidays are a time when your kids especially want you there – they want your presence far more than presents.

    National Center for Fathering

  • happy couple marriage

    12 December, 2025

    Love is a very costly exercise, but it has great rewards and brings great joy. Having celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary, here are our 10 keys to having a great marriage.

    Warwick Marsh

  • Holiday Generosity for Dads and Kids

    9 December, 2025

    There's something incredible and contagious about generosity. Here are some heartwarming stories to inspire giving this Christmas season.

    National Center for Fathering

  • gentle parenting mum

    4 December, 2025

    An American mother went viral after admitting 10 years of “gentle parenting” backfired, leaving her kids anxious and withdrawn—prompting her shift to structured, high-warmth authoritative parenting.

    Kurt Mahlburg

  • device-free

    3 December, 2025

    A gentle call to reclaim our attention from digital distractions, restore presence in our homes, and make room for deeper relationships with device-free time.

    Byron and Francine Pirola

  • holiday

    2 December, 2025

    Discover DADvent — a dad-inspired Advent calendar turning the December holidays into a month of surprises, creativity, and meaningful father-child moments, making Christmas magical despite busy schedules.

    National Center for Fathering

  • Relentless War Masculinity

    28 November, 2025

    David Maywald’s new bestseller, "The Relentless War on Masculinity", offers a courageous, hopeful roadmap for supporting boys and men and rebuilding healthier relationships across society.

    Nathaniel Marsh

  • Stronger Together

    21 November, 2025

    This week showed that we really are stronger together. As I wrote in September, no man is an island, and it’s heartening to see both men and women coming together to celebrate and support men and boys.

    Nathaniel Marsh

  • 20 November, 2025

    This week, a shocking Pew Research graphic has been making the rounds on social media. It’s a chart showing how dramatically young women’s interest in marriage has fallen away over the past three decades.

    Kurt Mahlburg

  • Dads4Kids Fun Camp

    15 November, 2025

    A big THANK YOU to the 64 dads, granddads and kids who joined us last weekend for the Dads4Kids Fun Camp. It was absolutely fantastic!!! Something amazing happens when dads get away from the everyday and create time with their kids.

    Nathaniel Marsh

  • family reading

    30 October, 2025

    Reading to children gets increasingly more difficult in an age of movies, the internet, and hectic schedules. But fighting against these constraints and picking up a book with your children is well worth the effort, for even a few minutes here and there gives both parent and child “an irreplaceable gift”.

    Annie Holmquist

  • love from childhood

    29 October, 2025

    Parents are our first educators because we learn through them how relationships work, and that forms the foundation for our adult relationships. No matter how wonderful our families are, they’re all limited and wounded somehow – it’s part of the human condition. The reality is, we’re being formed from childhood for both good and for trouble. 

    Byron and Francine Pirola

  • March for Australia: Aussie Blokes Are Being Left Behind

    28 October, 2025

    Many of the problems aired during the March for Australia are impacting most on the ordinary Aussie blokes who are already at the bottom of the pile. Men are most likely to be kicked to the curb by the pressures being caused by the current high levels of immigration.

    Bettina Arndt

  • adventure

    24 October, 2025

    The good news is you don’t need to break down on the Nullarbor Plain to enjoy an adventure or admire the heavens sitting by a campfire. If you’re near the South Coast of New South Wales, plan to join us at the upcoming Dads4Kids Fun Camp at Coolendel, 7-8 November 2025.

    Nathaniel Marsh

  • The 'D' Word

    17 October, 2025

    Words have power, especially when it comes to parenting. Used with thoughtful intention, words can build up and create. Used carelessly or worse, recklessly, they can tear down and destroy. One word that seems to have gone out of fashion is the ‘D’ word, Discipline.

    Nathaniel Marsh

  • kids cutest

    16 October, 2025

    When I look at my toddler and her little sidekick, I’m acutely aware how fast the years will slip by before they’re off to school. My wife and I have been practising a few simple strategies to make the most of this fleeting season and really enjoy our kids at their cutest.

    Kurt Mahlburg

  • Ride Like a Girl with Stevie Payne

    15 October, 2025

    As recently reported by "The Daily Mail", Stevie Payne, the brother of champion Melbourne Cup jockey Michelle Payne, who also appears in the 2019 biopic film "Ride Like A Girl", has found love.

    Nathaniel Marsh

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