3 Ways Dads Shame Their Kids
With every word I spoke, I felt my son become more distant. He held a lifeless gaze out the window as we drove home. I…
Category: Fatherhood
3 Signs You’re Successfully Working Yourself Out of a Job as a Parent
At three years old: “Daddy, will you please help me?” At five years old: “Dad, I don’t need your help. I can do it all…
7 Family Activities to Do the Week After Christmas
Merry Christmas to you and your family! I hope today is filled with lasting memories that you get to make with your kids. I plan…
3 Ways to Evaluate Yourself as a Dad
While standing in the kitchen this morning holding a plastic cup, my five-year-old son asked me, “Dad, did God create this cup?” Now, I could’ve…
5 Uncomfortable Things Your Child Needs to See You Do
I remember when my daughter took tenth-grade biology. Like in all high school bio classes, the students had labs and lab partners. Her lab partner…
The Love/Hate List of a Single Dad
I know many of the joys and hurts of being a single dad. I was one for nine years. It’s never easy, but a dad’s…
7 Characteristics of Successful Parents
My dad had dreams of owning a business and building it into something special. His father was a very successful businessman, and I think he…
5 Encouragements for Single Dads
When you are a father, you are hit daily by a world of challenges and stressful situations. Even when you have a wife to help…
5 Choices to Make When You’re Angry at Your Teen
It was not one of my better moments. I was yelling, she was crying. She stormed up to her room, and my wife asked, “Do…
5 Decisions That’ll Change Your Life
Theodore Roosevelt was on his way to deliver a campaign speech on October 14, 1912 when, according to History.com, a man by the name of…