On this Father’s Day, I want you to know one thing…I forgive you.
It’s been many years since we’ve spoken.
And it may be many years more before we speak again.
You don’t know me.
And I don’t know you.
We probably never did.
So, on this Father’s Day, I want you to know me.
I’m a lucky father of three beautiful children.
It’s […]
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HAPPY FATHERS DAY!!!
You were then and are now the greatest man I will ever know. The older I got the more I found myself thinking what would Dad do in any situation. Usually the convo in my head starts as “well dad always said”. The lessons you taught me growing up never seemed that […]
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Pat Flynn from Smart Passive Income is on the show. Pat not only is a genius at online business, it turns out he is a pretty swell father. He was working as an architect when in 2008 he got laid off and had to figure out how to make ends meet. What started as […]
This week, in preparation for some upcoming media interviews, I asked some of our most active fathers in the GetConnectDAD ecosystem this question: “What is most pressing for us as father’s today?”
First of all, I am honored with the responses from around the world, solely focused on helping me do a […]
A team of fathers from around the world is developing content focusing on 52 traits we want in our children. Throughout this journey, we hope parents find some useful hints, some suggested activities, and some new ideas to engage deeper with their children. Thank you so much for taking […]
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I wake up and my legs are telling me, like Obi-Wan with some Jedi Mind Shit, “You don’t need to do hills this morning.” I did hills 36 hours earlier and the legs don’t have much life in them. So, it being Saturday morning, I settle down at the […]
Han-Son of DaddiLife on why the most important gift we can give our children is our presence.
What’s that noise? Is it the sound of my baby attempting to say his first word? Am I at the cusp of a momentous dad moment?
No.
It’s the sound of my other ‘child’, the one I feel I can’t […]
“We all make mistakes sometimes / We all fail but we stand tonight / Look past, learn, and move on / We’re all here, you’re not the only one.” Lyrics from the song “Audrey, Start the Revolution!” by, the now disbanded alternative rock band, Anberlin. I started listening to Anberlin and heard this song for […]
When I was invited to write an article about empathy, I immediately thought of an excerpt from ‘Song of Myself’, by the American poet Walt Whitman:
I do not ask the wounded person how he feels,
I myself become the wounded person.
In a nutshell, that defines […]
Joseph Campbell, in his book The Hero With a Thousand Faces, makes a compelling argument that the world’s greatest hero stories follow the same basic arc.
Whether the stories connect to religion or mythology, whether they come from the Eastern or Western traditions, they spin the same tale of an ordinary human being who gets called to […]
My two-year-old daughter held my hand as we climbed the steps on the side of a hill which led to the top of a towering aluminum slide. For the first two slides, she asked to sit on my lap so that we could slide together. I started to sit for our third run, but before I […]
I’ve climbed mountains,
Seen amazing views.
I’ve seen waterfalls,
And felt the mist too.
I’ve been wonderous places,
Some so far away.
Saw the wonders of the pyramids,
On a beautiful day.
Dined on the Nile,
Accompanied by beer.
But none of the above
did I shed a single tear.
I’ve walked with wolves,
Even with dogs too.
Yet I never felt so close to heaven,
Until the birth of you.
“Is your luggage packed?” Mom asked us from the other side of our small two- bedroom duplex. Two adults and three kids were packed in pretty tight for such a small space. I was 8, maybe 9, and my siblings and I had been planning our great adventure across the United States for weeks. Dad snuck […]
Keep in mind as you are reading this, it is 6:00 AM; my 7 month-old son is playing beside me; and mom is trying to get some sleep.
I believe that many traits on this list, including this one, for one, needs to be lived by example: Your child’s largest training tools are their own […]
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As a father, committed to becoming a better dad, I spend a great deal of time thinking, writing, researching, talking and practicing on the subject of parenthood. The amazing thing is, Laurie, my wife, and mother of Eli and Ervin, […]
I would love to say I have been confident my entire life; however, the truth is, when I was a young man, I was scared of most everything. In today’s world, most would say my parents were helicopter parents. For better or worse, they believed that the rest of the world (outside of school) didn’t have […]
Teaching optimism to kids can be made easier with a game I made up called, “Turn Around.” The game has them literally turn around and then turn around their attitude. […]
