Having a second child often seems like a complete rehash of how everything happened the first time around. Your wife finds out that she’s pregnant, you go to prenatal appointments, and you start decorating a new bedroom. When the time comes, you rush her off to the hospital and help her greet a beautiful new…
After 14 years of marriage, plus a couple of other long-term relationships before that, I’ve been privy to many conversations with women as to where we men fail as husbands. Some of those were relayed from a third party about their own husband, and some of those conversations were ones where my wife and I were…
It seems that for many of us men, we would rather read, or watch a video, in order to inform ourselves about things like pregnancy, childbirth, or fatherhood. We don’t tend to want to actually talk to other fathers and get their insight (yes, I know some of us do, but not nearly to the…
There are plenty of books on the market about the importance of motherhood, but books about engaged fatherhood? Not so much. So I’m asking for your help to Kickstart the publishing of “Oh Oh, Baby Boy! The Makings of Engaged Fatherhood“, by a very talented artist, Janine Macbeth (wife of one of my recent homebirth…
It’s been quite some time since I’ve had a new post in the Homebirth Dads series, so I’m jazzed to share this latest one with you: 10 Questions for Homebirth Dads with Lome Aseron 1. Why did you choose homebirth? My wife Janine has a terrible fear of hospitals. She gets woozy if you just…
Father is considered to be the head of a family and every child looks forward to be like his father some day. Earlier fathers had little interaction with their children, but now this mindset is changing. Now it has been seen that fathers are equally interested in the upbringing and interests of their children. They…
[Or, Make Everyday Fathers Day] Fathers Day is another maddening consumer holiday – a Hallmark-and-sporting-goods-store buying frenzy that sucks in families and spits out cheesy greeting cards, BBQ grills, monogrammed golf balls, and yes, soap-on-a-rope. It’s a compulsory holiday, one during which a great number of people are convinced that if they sign a card…
Becoming a better father isn’t as simple as just reading a book about it or trying to emulate your own dad (or another father you look up to). It’s more of a process – a series of good habits that you develop over time. Great dads weren’t born that way. They grew into it by…
One of the beautiful mysteries of parenting is how different our kids can be from each other. One child can spend hours playing independently, and another wants constant engagement with others. One child tends to be mellow and adaptable, the other is easily excitable and highly energetic. It’s beautiful, yet also has the potential to…
For busy families, fitting one more thing into your day might seem impossible, but adding something extra every day will actually revitalize and refresh you. After fighting his way home through traffic, an exhausted dad arrives at home ready to put his feet up. At the door, he meets the also exhausted mom holding a…
Parenting is a great test of our mettle, as being a parent puts us into some challenging situations. Not a day goes by without a lesson learned, and some of our best teachers are those right nearby. Such as our cats. Yes, indeedy, cats can teach us a lot about parenting (and about ourselves), even…
