We're lucky with a pair of teen and tween daughters who, for 97% of the time, adore each other still but not all teenage sibling relationships are this smooth, but some other parents have to deal with constant fights, for those who do not what to do with their [...]
This isn't an easy subject for a lot of guys but when a member of the Life of Dad community asked for advice over his reaction to his 14-year-old's new boyfriend, the fellas responded! If your child prefers to date a fellow Christian, you may recommend them to Christian [...]
School is just around the corner and I’ve been trying to figure out a way to keep in touch with my kids. Up until now things have been easy. They haven’t wandered far and school activities have been limited. But man….. Things are changing. I had no idea how I [...]
We knew we'd got a dose of the "my girl isn't going to date forever" thing and the "I'm collecting guns to threaten all the boys" trope, but we sifted through those unreasonable responses to find true (and sometimes funny) pieces of advice on when a child should be [...]
Of the teenage years of dating and dating Mr. or Miss Wrong, we asked the dads of our Facebook community how they would handle things if they thought their teenager was dating someone who was bad for them; as you might expect, the responses were not tepid. For parents seeking [...]
Parenting seems hard at the beginning. There's the infamous lack of sleep problem, the poop up and out of the diaper situation, projectile vomiting -- man, that's a classic -- and all those crumbs in the car. But veteran dads know that the complicated stuff comes later on, when [...]
It can be so hard to communicate with a teenager. If you have been trying, chances are you have decided it is an exercise in futility. Why is it more like talking to a bear?! Your frustration is natural, but you should keep one thing in mind: your teenager [...]
It started, as things often do on the Life of Dad Facebook page, with a great question from one of our users, in this case, Tim Boyle: "OK so my wife, 14 year-old-daughter, and myself all have different ideas of when she can start dating. My 14-year-old says now, [...]
My daughter Coco and I have always gotten along well, like the picture here, taken ten years ago back in Hawaii. But there’s been some stress in on our family since we moved to Georgia, and this has been a particularly challenging year. My wife, Margaret is finishing her first year [...]
