Here’s a simple but sobering exercise to help motivate you to make this your best holiday season ever. Think about this for a moment: What if this were your last holiday season?
Divorced Dads: Have a Conscious Commitment
Regardless of how little time you actually get to spend with your child, you're still his father. You may not be a father in the way you want to be, but yours is as real a father-child relationship as any. This is the one and only way that you can have a relationship with this child at this point.
Holiday Tips for Dads and Kids
Year-end holidays can make wonderful experiences and memories for dads and kids. They can also be stressful, and whip by incredibly fast. Here are a few tips to keep in mind for making the most of your holiday.
Family Financial Planning for Happy Holidays
Many kids have parents convinced that life will just be a bust without the latest video game or hottest cell phone. With the recession looming large though, parents are struggling to shelter the children from their financial and employment woes, yet bestow upon them a memorable Christmas.
Thanksgiving Interview: 10 Questions
10 minutes / 10 Questions to ask your kids this Thanksgiving.
Modeling: Eyes Are on You, Dad
Sporting events are often one of the most revealing stages where dads exhibit their fathering. Unfortunately, many of us can remember bad examples of fathering at youth sporting events.
Time Together is the Best Thing
Colin is 11 and he loves tennis. Not long ago, his grandparents were visiting, and Colin asked if they could watch him play. So Colin and his dad, Brian, got their racquets and took grandma and grandpa to the high school courts. They all had a great time.
The Most Important Hour in Your Home?
For many years, research has been telling us that kids do better when their family has dinner together. Teenagers are less likely to use drugs and alcohol and less likely to have high stress. Kids of all ages do better in school, especially reading.
Co-Parenting For Our Kids
As I look back on my own personal experiences with co-parenting, I can only draw one conclusion: I could have saved a lot of time and avoided a lot of stress if had I worried more about my behavior than my ex's. To save other guys the same painful and unnecessary process, here are the challenges that I faced when I became a single dad and had to learn to co-parent with my ex and the hard lessons I learned.
Words that Change Children’s Lives
What would cause a woman to say she loved someone she has barely met? The answer comes from the sister of one of our staff members.
Can I really bond with this child?
When we begin to care for the next generation and do what Bruce did—hold them in our arms—suddenly we are struck by the awesome power of being a father.
Love … More Than a Feeling
You wake up at 3:20 in the morning and hear your daughter calling you: “Daddy, can you help me?” You don’t even think about elbowing your wife. You get up and go check on her.
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“Fatherhood Comes First” says Super Bowl Coach
- Super Bowl XLIII-winning head coach Mike Tomlin wrote a commentary called "Fatherhood Comes First, Then the Game" in USA Today for the Friday before the big game. Among the other refreshing comments about one of his top priorities in life—fatherhood—Tomlin describes...
Ten Tips for Dads to Promote Daughters’ Sports
Why should your daughter or stepdaughter participate in sports and physical activity? To be more healthy (in mind & body), feel better about herself, learn new skills, stay off alcohol & drugs, defer sexual activity, and ... TO HAVE FUN! Sadly, some people...
Valentine’s Day and the Single Dad
by R.J. Jaramillo My life, like yours, is busy, even chaotic at times as the New Year begins. Certain holidays and celebrations can be a little bit more difficult than others for a single dad. Valentine's Day used to be one of those holidays for me, but I learned some...
The BEST Thing for Your Kids
Some research from a few years back points to an action point that may seem simple, but it isn't easy. The study, published in the Journal of Communication and Religion, cites numerous studies indicating that a child’s relationship with his or her parents is the...
Maximize Your Holiday Presence
Dad, do you want to know how much your presence is worth this holiday season? That's "presence"--like your time, being there with your family--not "presents," as in gifts. What is your presence worth to your children? One answer comes from a boy named Connor, whose...
Video Article: Single Dads and the Holidays
Experiences and advice from RJ, Jesse & Jon from SingleDad.com on surviving the holidays.
What if this were your LAST Christmas?
Here's a simple but sobering exercise to help motivate you to make this your best holiday season ever. Think about this for a moment: What if this were your last holiday season? It may sound morbid, but try to view the question in a positive light: What if you had the...
Divorced Dads: Have a Conscious Commitment
by Serge Prengel Regardless of how little time you actually get to spend with your child, you're still his father. You may not be a father in the way you want to be, but yours is as real a father-child relationship as any. This is the one and only way that you can...
Holiday Tips for Dads and Kids
Year-end holidays can make wonderful experiences and memories for dads and kids. They can also be stressful, and whip by incredibly fast. Here are a few tips to keep in mind for making the most of your holiday. 1. Presence always trumps presents. More than any...
Family Financial Planning for Happy Holidays
by Gary Direnfeld Many kids have parents convinced that life will just be a bust without the latest video game or hottest cell phone. With the recession looming large though, parents are struggling to shelter the children from their financial and employment woes, yet...
Thanksgiving Interview: 10 Questions
by R.J. Jaramillo Here's a great Thanksgiving project for all dads (and moms) to do with their kids. Other relatives may want to participate, too. I encourage you to play the "interviewer" ... like a news reporter. But this time, the celebrity you are about to...
Modeling: Eyes Are on You, Dad
Sporting events are often one of the most revealing “stages” where dads exhibit their fathering. Unfortunately, many of us can remember bad examples of fathering at youth sporting events. There are no perfect fathers. We all say and do things that we later regret. But...