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Children and Chores: What I’ve learned as a Father

There was one thing I was looking forward to when I had my first kid.  It wasn’t spending time raising someone to be responsible, nor was it having a new best friend to laugh and play with.  It was finally getting someone else to mow the lawn for … [Continue reading]

Top tips to deal with children’s expenses

Stress and emotional pain of a separation can be exacerbated by worrying over expenses for your children.  Let yourself focus on the important things in life, and work on discovering strategies that will help you to find workable solutions to your … [Continue reading]

The power of being present

If you were to spend a lot of time with me a few years ago, you would have observed the serious and worry side of me. Today that side is still there but in a lessor degree because it gets replaced by a conscious effort to be present in the … [Continue reading]

The secret to getting around a fussy eater

If your kids are anything like mine and i think most are, they are fussy eaters. Until recently i threw out a lot of everything I cooked for my daughter, mostly, when I was trying to introduce her to different foods.  She was stubborn when it came … [Continue reading]

The Hero Project

Khaaliq Thomas is a professional photographer and custodial dad of 3 (recently divorced). For the past year he has been working on a photo documentary concentrating on single / custodial fathers households. We would like to spread the word and … [Continue reading]

Dads Cafe Breakfast Menu

This is what breakfast looked like at our house this morning. Every now and then using an A4 piece of paper I draw up a menu similar to the ones we get in a cafe and we all get to order what we would like to eat. It's a bit of fun as kids love to … [Continue reading]

Dance dads choose well

Ok, so maybe you have a child that dances around the living room as soon as they hear music on the TV. Perhaps your little girl or boy always dances down the street instead of walks. Or your boy just can’t sit still and has discovered he can spin on … [Continue reading]

The Super Dad’s guide to a healthy kids birthday party

              Kids birthday parties can sometimes end with belly aches, nausea and sugar lows that are not much fun for anyone involved. Try to avoid sending home the neighborhood children with … [Continue reading]

Developing our kids self esteem

Healthy self-esteem is like a child's armor against the challenges of the world. Kids who know their strengths and weaknesses and feel good about themselves seem to have an easier time handling conflicts and resisting negative pressures. They tend to … [Continue reading]

Protecting our kids from social media hackers

The hacking of mass accounts on a social network is something that seems to be happening a great deal recently, with LinkedIn being the latest victim, after having 6.5m of its users passwords stolen. Prior to LinkedIn, Twitter suffered a similar … [Continue reading]

Things I wish I had of known earlier

Sometimes it seems like the whole purpose of life is just to learn and grow. We learn from our mistakes. I reckon that most of us do not learn unless we have made some mistakes and have suffered its consequences. I also believe that the majority … [Continue reading]

Top family road trips in Australia

Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous words, "Life is a journey, not a destination," still inspire today. The journey is the destination, or rather, it's not the destination but the journey that matters most... For road trippers, the journey is just as … [Continue reading]