Dads out there, if I’ve learned nothing else in my time, I’ve learned the following…
You can let life happen to you. You can let life happen to your kids. You can let events control your family, determine your actions, shape your thinking, take their own course and carry you or your kids with them.
Or ….
You [...]

article from Melbourne’s Herald-Sun, July 17, 2007
BOYS would behave better if fathers played a more active role in their sons’ lives, a Melbourne expert has found.
Adolescent education expert Bill Jennings said the growing epidemic of “fatherlessness” – where dads were increasingly absent either physically or emotionally – had led to negative patterns in young [...]

A quick roundup of some worthwhile reads out there in Blogland.
1.How I Won the War on Consumerism -”Everywhere you turn, someone is trying to get you to buy stuff. Every medium is about selling advertising. Even the baseball stadium is named after the sponsoring company!
My family is not rich, but we are far from having to [...]

Well Gentlemen and Ladies, I’m back after an enormously busy period. The best thing that’s been occupying my time is competing my Pitstop training, which means I’m now a licensed facilitator of the Pitstop Parenting program for Dads.
Had a sensational time both travelling through the material and mixing with other men (and women!) who are [...]

It’s not often we announce events for the lady parents amongst us, but when it’s being put on by Amanda of RealMums, it’s worth letting Melbournites know about it. (Sorry international readers, you can’t go to this, unless you’re willing to jump on a plane. And who knows, it might be worth that! Amanda puts [...]

George Bernard Shaw once wrote:
“We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.”
Studying many families, workplaces and even nations, we can see the truth of this as human beings simply recycle the faults, mistakes and sometimes outright wrongdoing of past generations.
Often I have heard new parents make this commitment: “Now I have kids, I’m not [...]