The guys who fear becoming fathers don’t understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.  The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent. 
~Frank Pittman, Man Enough

Following on from yesterday’s spiel about Dads with post-natal depression (just scroll down people, I can’t be bothered inserting a hyperlink - is that blogging bad manners or what?)…
My good mate, Molks, has opened his life for inspection in a brave and humble way over at his blog. (Damn, I had to do a link [...]

In Melbourne Australia, we’ve just had a news report about the high incidence of fathers suffering post-natal depression.  These reports have popped up very occasionally over the last 5 or 6 years, but don’t seem to get a lot of attention. I think that - amidst all the whacky tomfoolery on this blog - this is a topic worth commenting on.
In fact, you [...]

In cyberspace, there’s so many nuggets of gold buried under centuries of old blog posts. (Well, ok, not centuries; I was just trying to build an archeological analogy there)…
I stumbled across a 2 year old post from a New Dad and thought his perspective was engaging. Hope it serves someone somehow somewhere some-when.

Well, I was going to sit down and write a proper parenting manifesto, like the ones that recently appeared on Rebel Dad’s site, but then I read some of the ones on Rebel Dad and asked myself “Why not just direct people over there?” (Hence the link above)
So here’s something else instead:
10 Ways to Freak [...]

Gotta love MacGyver. I’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of his exploits in my public speaking over the years. But I’ve just now discovered (what maybe some of you already know) a book called What Would MacGyver Do?
[Here we see MacGyver carrying a Smart Bomb he's just thrown together from a gameboy circuit [...]