What This Crying Toddler Knows That Our Culture Would Rather Forget
A viral video of a toddler watching her parents’ wedding reveals something profound: children draw security not only from being loved, but from seeing their parents love each other.
Fight Like a Pro
My good friend Robert Day sent me a link. He said, “Check out Gavin Topps and his ‘Fight Like a Pro’ Program”. Rob is a Dads4Kids board member. He has worked with men all his life. He knows men. So, I just had to check it out for myself. Below ...
3 Ways Time-Poor Dads Can Spend More Time with Their Kids
There is a truckload of parenting advice on how to fathers can make more time for their families. This is especially the case for new fathers and fathers-to-be. Dragging ourselves through chapter after chapter of self-help drudgery, only to be told how much we’re not doing, and how much more ...
Dad and Pregnancy: Number 2 Makes Us Four
Editor's Note: It’s been nearly three months since we were here, but when we last updated the story of dad-life for our author, his wife had just been told that she was pregnant with number two. Life had just gotten down to some sort of order, and everything was about ...
Bringing Baby Home from Hospital
Alright then, just sign here and you can take him home. Home? Taking him home? And not just him, but my wonderful and rather tired and sore wife. There’s a lot involved in taking your baby home from hospital. You’ve got to have somewhere for them to sit in the ...
Baby’s First Day of Life
What on earth do I do now? That’s the thought that went through my head. I held my newborn son in my arms, I looked down into his eyes, and in him I saw someone who would be completely reliant on my wife and me for his every need, someone ...
Pregnancy to Birth: How Not to Panic
Fatherhood; it’s the best of times, it’s the worst of times. Sorry Charles Dickens for stealing your thunder, but it’s true. Being a dad is one of the most wonderful things to ever happen to me, as well as one of the most terrifying. I’ve been a father for 11 ...
Conversations with a Two-Year-Old
Many years ago there was a TV show called ‘Kids Say the Darndest Things’. This was based on a daily radio show by Art Linkletter, which aired between 1945 and 1969. But, look out folks, in 2014 we can forget TV and even radio and go straight to YouTube ...
The Dad Dilemma
The Dad Dilemma is the title of an article in The Age about the challenges of child birth. Thea O’Connor, the writer, says, “Most Australian men are present and active at the birth of their children. But not everyone believes this is a good thing.” Having been present for the ...
Every Baby is a Royal Baby
It has been a big week for royal babies. On Monday 22 July 2013, at 4.24pm Prince William and Princess Kate had a son, George Alexander Louis, whose destiny may well be the future King of England. Prince William, Princess Kate and their son George On Sunday 21 ...
Altruistic Love of a Father
It is nearly forty years ago since the first known father, an Australian, applied for legal custody of a baby girl and was subsequently granted legal custody of his baby daughter by the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Though this father was granted legal custody of his baby daughter ...
When They Are Very Young
I was 27 years old when, on my first day of teaching, I was presented with a class full of ten-year-old children. I remember thinking that I hadn’t seen or spoken to a ten-year-old since I was ten. I felt equally inadequate a few years later when I was handed ...
