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 [...]

I was listening to a conversation between a teachers’ advocate and a parenting “expert” on the radio today. They were chatting constructively about how to build a partnership between parent and teacher, rather than taking an adversarial approach.
Let’s face it, if you’re kid’s been in grade school for more than a day, they’ve probably told you [...]

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 [...]

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Check out Evolution of Dad!

Get ready for this site to evolve upwards over the next 12 months, dear readers. The more time I spend in this space, the more passionate I become about fatherhood. I’m dialoguing with local government and existing mens’ programs/organisations where I live to introduce some opportunities for men to “workshop” their parenting, to retool for [...]

Texan Bob Hruzek always hosts a good writer’s festival and this month’s was no exception. Below are links to all of the posts entered in the What I Learned from People festival. (Bob’s is the last one). Enjoy…
What I Learned from…
… Salvadore Dali, by Amy Palko at Lives Less Ordinary
… People, by Trevor Hampel at [...]