I hope all our reminders about Valentine’s Day over the past month did you some good. By now you surely have the special gifts, gestures, and date(s) planned for your wife (and kids). Or maybe you’re one of those couples or families where February 14th isn’t such a...
by Michelle Watson, PhD, LPC So dad, I know that you don’t always have it easy when it comes to trying to understand your daughter. As a girl myself, I can truly say that much of the time we think you can tell what we’re feeling or needing or wanting just because mom...
3 Ways to NOT Bully Your Kids as told to Brock Griffin We are just finishing up National Bullying Prevention Month, and it’s definitely worth recognizing in today’s world. We would all be wise to learn more about the challenges related to bullying and find ways to...
by Sam J. Jones Fathers find it difficult to show emotions to their children and spouses. That’s what I have noticed after more than a decade of training fathers through the National Center for Fathering “Quenching the Father-Thirst: Developing a Dad” curriculum....
Use Words to Affirm Your Daughter by Michelle Watson, PhD, LPC You may have heard that females speak approximately twenty thousand words per day, while males use about seven thousand. Is that a crazy variance or what?! Louann Brizendine, author of The Female Brain,...
What is a Championship Father? It is a dad who is dedicated to living out the five fundamentals that our research at NCF has identified in great dads: Loving, Coaching and Modeling their own children; Encouraging other kids; and Enlisting other dads. How exactly can...
