5 Ways to Win Valentine’s Day with Your Kids

5 Ways to Win Valentine’s Day with Your Kids

The approach of Valentine’s Day becomes obvious shortly after Christmas to anyone who enters a store that sells candy or greeting cards. Maybe you “won” Christmas gift-giving, and now there’s another giving obligation right around the corner. Or is it an...
Kobe “Loved Being a Dad”: Fathers & Time

Kobe “Loved Being a Dad”: Fathers & Time

by Ken R Canfield, Ph.D. I join with many around the world this week in mourning the lives lost in the tragic helicopter crash in California—NBA great Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna, and seven others. While all nine people deserve to be memorialized, it makes sense...
What Your Daughter Really Longs For

What Your Daughter Really Longs For

by Michelle Watson, PhD, LPC I wish you could sit in my counseling office, even for part of a day, because you’d hear what I consistently hear from teenage girls and 20-something women.  You’d hear how often they doubt themselves, how often they fear a future...
Your Valuable Presence … and Our Promising Plan

Your Valuable Presence … and Our Promising Plan

Dads: I am definitely in the Christmas spirit as we’re now just a few days away. I’m eager to spend time with my children and grandchildren and celebrate all the traditions of the holidays.  My #1 message for dads right now is to focus on being present with your...
Your Valuable Presence … and Our Promising Plan

Exciting Possibilities Ahead at NCF

Thank you for tuning into these weekly messages from fathers.com / the National Center for Fathering (NCF). And most of all, thank you for your devotion to your children. As we all commit ourselves to what’s best for the next generation, we make the world a better...