Dads have an important role to play in helping to build emotional resilience and reinforcing positive mindsets. By celebrating our children’s achievements — whether big milestones or small daily wins — we help foster their self-confidence.
Nathaniel Marsh
Parents who want to stay connected with their kids need to roll with the punches. Expect — and maybe even welcome — the weirdness and frustrations that come with each season of their young lives.
National Center for Fathering
When co-parenting feels like war, "just cooperate" isn't enough. Here's how to break the cycle, protect your kids, and play the long game after divorce — even if she never changes.
National Center for Fathering
Life is going to throw plenty of hard things at your family that you never asked for. Dad, your job is to be ready for those moments by choosing some challenges now, while you still can. Family strength doesn't happen by accident. It's a decision.
Guest Writer
A candid look at why so many men lack close friendships, and practical advice for building the real connections that make better fathers, partners, and men.
Ken Canfield
My father had a sense of humour as well as a sense of wisdom.
Don Mathis
When your kids push your buttons, Dad, how do you respond? It starts with that inner attitude of respect, Dad. When they're at their worst, that's your moment to be at your best.
National Center for Fathering
My father knew what was worth having and provided us with an ideal lifestyle. Our old weatherboard house was no showplace, but it was full of contentment, laughter and security.
Roland Foster
As fathers, we need to face the facts, recognise the dangers, and do our best to navigate the modern world as best we can. Not only for our own wellbeing, but also for our families to thrive.
Nathaniel Marsh
Easter arrives each spring with something most dads don't fully realise: a ready-made opportunity to lead their families toward what matters most.
Ken Canfield
Every year, millions of families lose their fathers, husbands, brothers, and sons too early. Men in Australia live an average of nearly five years less than women. But here's the good news — the vast majority of premature male deaths are preventable.
Warwick Marsh
The daily, often mundane work of fatherhood — bedtime conversations, consistency in discipline, the showing up again and again — this is the soil where transformation happens.
National Center for Fathering
Your job pays the bills. But "Dad" is the title that defines your legacy. This piece is a call to fathers to own the role that matters most.
National Center for Fathering
A book review of "Surviving Separation: Understanding Family Law Without Confusion" (released in January 2025) by Graham McFarland. This is a practical, Australia-focused guide that aims to turn confusion into a step-by-step roadmap.
David Maywald
The Kendrick Brothers’ 2021 documentary "Show Me The Father" is well worth watching. Directed by Rick Altizer, it beautifully weaves together a series of stories highlighting the importance of fatherhood.
Nathaniel Marsh
As institutions adopt new cultural norms, parents can no longer outsource character formation. The home, not the system, is now the decisive arena shaping strong, resilient sons and daughters.
Kurt Mahlburg
Make this the year your children remember for all the right reasons. A simple daily tradition—five focused minutes of presence—can build trust, deepen connection, and shape a lasting legacy.
National Center for Fathering
Valentine’s Day isn’t just for romance. It’s a powerful opportunity for dads to intentionally affirm their daughters and sons, shaping their identity, security and understanding of love for years to come.
National Center for Fathering
An uplifting call to fathers to harness the power of their words, reject self-limiting speech, and intentionally speak life, courage and affirmation into their children and themselves.
Toby Cusack
The current Family Law System is biased against fathers and routinely deprives children of their biological birthright to equal access with their mother and fathers. This legislation creates a new stolen generation of children who, in many cases, are taken away from their fathers.
Patrick O'Connor
A teenage boy’s heroic swim to save his family becomes a powerful reflection on courage, faith, fatherhood, and the kind of character our culture should celebrate and cultivate.
Kurt Mahlburg
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