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Fathers Changing the World
'Pinkie and the Brain' is one of my favourite cartoons. I used to watch it with my kids when they were young, and I don't know who loved it more, me or them (but I won't tell anyone if you don't). http://youtu.be/GBkT19uH2RQ 'Pinkie and the Brain' is the story of two enhanced laboratory mice. Wikipedia puts it well, "Brain is ...
New Year – New Start
There is something really exciting about the Christmas - New Year period. It marks the start of a New Year and a whole host of opportunities for you and your family. New Year’s Day signals a chance for you to break with the past and start afresh. This is a day to be finished with discouragement from any past failure ...
Christmas Joy
Christmas is a great time of the year for our families and particularly for our children. I remember as a ten year old boy, the year seemed to last forever before Christmas arrived. The lead up to Christmas went excruciatingly slow. Psychologists acknowledge that time does go quicker as you age. For me, the big marker of the year was ...
Dads Our Children Can Count On
Australia is the best country in the world. I know that Alison and I are biased, but we say that every time we come home from an overseas trip, and it gets truer every time. We had an exciting journey as we met with family and fatherhood leaders in the USA, Europe and Asia. I have visited nineteen countries as ...
International Men’s Day
It’s always an interesting thing, gauging how much people engage with an issue or an idea. Sometimes you’d think that one thing would be wildly popular and it flops, other times you think it’s an absolute stinker, yet it grabs people’s attention and becomes a runaway success. This is especially true on the internet, a place where pictures of cats ...
My Hero
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 ...
Ending the Violence
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 ...
Moments of Love
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 ...
Two Sides – Same Coin
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 ...
Another Year – Another Day
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 ...
