Our dads teach us a lot. Sometimes the lessons are intentional, sometimes accidental and sometimes those lessons we learn from our dads are how to be a father by NOT following their lead. We recently asked the Life of Dad Facebook community to tell us what they learned from their [...]
I'm on record as saying, and I'm going to be obnoxious and quite myself now, "if you aren't growing alongside your kid, then you're doing parenting wrong". Being a dad is a learning experience from conception to when they go off to college or move out to get a job, [...]
Here's a post you guys are going to want to bookmark. Whether your about to have your first or getting ready to send your last of to college, there's so much wisdom here that I believe you'll find something worthy of considering no matter where you are in your fatherhood [...]
A lot of new dads and moms enter into this parenting thing with the idea that lessons and information will be a one way street, with wisdom and knowledge flowing from them to their tiny new recruits but we parents who've been doing this for more than a few years [...]
A young man might think he's got it all sorted; life, work, happiness, love, but then he becomes a dad and he realizes that there are so many more lessons left to learn. We recently asked the dads of our Facebook community to tell us what fatherhood has taught them. [...]
We’ve asked this before and we’ll likely ask it again because it’s a beam of light into what makes us, as individuals and as a community, great dads and moms. Sometimes, we find out that dad imparting some truly valuable lessons with his wise words or through his positive actions [...]
To be perfectly honest, we didn’t know what we’d get when we posed this question to our Facebook community. After nearly 600 comments in the “What is one important thing you learned from your dad?” thread, what we discovered is that historically, far too many men have not lived up [...]
Ages 1-6 years-old is the perfect time to teach your kids about money. Teaching them in their formative years about the value of money and how to save effectively will definitely build a strong financial foundation for them. If you’re going to impart lasting wisdom and knowledge to your [...]
Amongst my favourite lines from poetry are these from T.S. Eliot's The Hollow Men: Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow Life [...]
