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Better Dads, Better Lads

April 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment

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 [...]

Tags: Family · The Male Approach

Diaper Primer

March 20th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I read a piece recently outlining a male approach to handling dirty nappies/diapers. The more I read, the more I saw myself in this. Here’s a preview…  
… Eventually, as you baby-sit more and more, the child will at one time or another emit an odoriferous cloud that will permeate the entire room. This is your [...]

Tags: Handy Hints · The Male Approach

Fierce and Kind, Protective and Dangerous

March 5th, 2008 · 7 Comments

The following piece has been submitted by one of my closest mates, Ken, one of my Band of Brothers locally here.
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I went lap swimming with my 12 year-old daughter a few weeks ago.  As I huffed and puffed through my laps in the ‘medium’ lane, my daughter Dani backstroked her way up and down in the [...]

Tags: Guys I Have Known · The Male Approach · Thoughts

Conversations:BadDad meets the FreakedoutFather

September 20th, 2007 · 9 Comments

Wanna hear my voice? Wanna hear Bad Dad’s? Wanna hear them together in the same podcast? You know you do!
Head over to BadDadRadio for Episode One and Episode Two today and be watching for Episode 3 (The Revenge of the Sith or something like that). Coming soon.
Download it, put it on your ipod and take [...]

Tags: Guys I Have Known · The Male Approach

Will it Blend?

August 4th, 2007 · No Comments

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx4QgK_xEfE

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Thanks for the Meme-ories

July 11th, 2007 · 11 Comments

With many thanks to William Tully of Logical Emotions for tagging me with this meme, I present to you TEN of my earlier posts which in some way define what the Freakedout Fathers site is both about and for. In short, it’s about the pleasure and the pain of being a Dad, and it’s for [...]

Tags: The Male Approach