If you are a husband or a dad, you are likely exhausted. If you’re not, you should be. This stuff requires blood, sweat, and tears. And being a fully engaged husband and father should leave you feeling wiped out by the end of the day; if you’ve got energy by the time you’re going [...]
As you can imagine, when men hear that I specialize in the dad-daughter relationship, I often experience one of two things: 1) I’m asked challenging questions that come from deep places of confusion, hurt and/or frustration with his daughter…or…. 2) Proud fathers pull out their phones and show me heartwarming [...]
We’ve had a fun year publishing blog posts each week for you. We hope you’ve enjoyed the posts and found them helpful and encouraging to you as a dad. Let’s take a look back in review of our most popular blog posts this year. Here are the top five blog posts of 2021. […]
When your four-year-old proudly presents you with a drawing of what looks like a baboon wearing a babushka boiling boomerangs on a beach, you have two choices. You can (1) crush their creative spirit. Or you can (2) catapult them into a world of imagination and innovation that will serve [...]
I’ve heard it said that communication is seven percent words, 38 percent tone of voice, and 55 percent body language. If you do the math, you’ll see that this means that 93 percent of communication is nonverbal. How’s that for significant?! This little statistic serves as a reminder that as [...]
Every time your teenager walks into the room you have two choices. You can let them know you are glad to see them. Or you can wonder what nastiness they have been up to and pick a fight. If your body language is welcoming, if your smile is sincere, and [...]
One of the hardest things in life is facing death. Though it’s inevitable, death never seems right, does it? It never gets easier to handle the loss and it never seems like we’ve had enough time with the ones we love. Even more, the world doesn’t ever feel the same [...]
One of the things I’ve come to appreciate about men over the past twelve years of leading dads of daughters in The Abba Project and interacting with men at conferences is this: Ya’ll shoot straight and you want clear answers to your direct questions! Case in point. Here is an [...]
When Brenda, my wife and I were engaged. She had several girlfriends, who were married with babies. Brenda loved visiting these wives with babies. During our visit, these babies always seemed to need their diapers changed. Brenda would volunteer. Then, she’d ask me if I wanted to help. My answer [...]
Hey Husbands and Fathers: Generations ago, the boundaries were clear. He was the breadwinner. She was the homemaker. In many ways, it’s a good thing those boundaries are not quite so clear anymore. Both sides have taken on and given up a variety of responsibilities which means husbands and wives [...]
