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    Convos with My Two Year-Old Re-enacted, a New Video Series

    What meaning and hilarity do the real words of a two year-old take on when a grown man says them?  Take a look at this side-splitting re-enactment created by dad, Matthew Clark, from Warmland Films.  This is the first episode in the series.  We can’t wait for more. Did you have this discussion with a [...]

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    Leaning Together: How to be a Happy Working Dad, Part One

    A new report finds that fitting work with family isn’t just a women’s issue. Jeremy Adam Smith offers 10 tips for helping fathers to navigate a changing landscape at home and on the job.   When the Pew Research Center released its new report on modern parenthood last week, the Southern California Public Radio show “Take Two” called to [...]

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    Breast is Best… for Dads Too!

    Throughout our history mothers breastfeeding their babies has run the spectrum from feast to famine. Very long ago nearly every mother breastfed; nature obviously had a good plan. During less distant times mothers breastfeeding became unfashionable and ‘proper society’ did not even consider it. Many only breastfed if they could not afford a wet nurse. Mothers today often [...]

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Convos with My Two Year-Old Re-enacted, a New Video Series

May 23 Conscious Parenting, Fatherhood, Featured, Humor no comments
What meaning and hilarity do the real words of a two year-old take on when a grown man says them?  Take a look at this side-splitting re-enactment created by dad, Matthew Clark, from Warmland Films.  This is the first ep...
father-page2315

Leaning Together: How to be a Happy Working Dad, Part One

April 3 Conscious Parenting, Fatherhood, Featured, Working Parents 1 comment
A new report finds that fitting work with family isn’t just a women’s issue. Jeremy Adam Smith offers 10 tips for helping fathers to navigate a changing landscape at home and on the job.   When the Pew R...
father-page2315

Breast is Best… for Dads Too!

March 7 Breastfeeding, Conscious Parenting, Fatherhood no comments
Throughout our history mothers breastfeeding their babies has run the spectrum from feast to famine. Very long ago nearly every mother breastfed; nature obviously had a good plan. During less distant times mothers&n...

True love

December 14 Fatherhood, Mothering, early years, Psychology / Self-help no comments
I stood at the doorway of my daughter’s bedroom one night as her father tucked her in and said goodnight. ‘Daddy, you’re my true love’, she said as she wrapped her tiny arms around his neck. Graci...

I used to ‘have a life’ (Now I have a bigger one) Life as a stepdad...

September 28 Conscious Parenting, Fatherhood, Men's Issues no comments
When I first began falling in love with Leigh, I couldn’t really relate to her kids. Initially I kept away from them, not wanting to create any attachment that could create trauma should Leigh and I decide not to b...

Green Tram

September 20 Conscious Parenting, Fatherhood, Men's Issues no comments
Zachary was so excited, he was nearly beside himself with excitement. This was to be his big day out in Melbourne. He had graciously accepted my offer to go and catch a tram — nay, he had grabbed the opportunity wi...

A Child gives Birth to the Man

September 20 Fatherhood, Home Birth, Men's Issues no comments
As a child of the fifties, my idea of childbirth came from old American sitcoms. The mother is closeted away, the father chain-smokes pacing the hospital waiting room. After some magical process, a nurse displays a neat ...

Leading from the Trenches – a man’s approach to parenting

May 29 Child development, Fatherhood, Men's Issues no comments
Another day is over and I watch my sons while they sleep. I’ve closed their bedroom windows, pulled the covers over their shoulders and now — before I leave their rooms — I say a quick prayer for them a...

The Gift of Time

May 29 Child development, Conscious Parenting, Fatherhood, Mothering, early years no comments
 One of the most important gifts we can give our children is time. By turning off the television you have automatically granted a child several hours a day for fostering an imagination that will lead to a lifetime o...

Men of Colour in a White World 3: Melissa’s Story

April 29 Culture, Fatherhood, Spirituality no comments
Fathers? Oh, where to begin. Not with my own father, who was raised with a refugee’s violence and loss, and passed some of it on. Let me speak instead of some indigenous men I know — men of colour in a white ...
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