Sometimes, for me, books become my best friends. I am a very inquisitive soul at the best of times. I love reading and I also strongly identify with Scrooge McDuck and all his Scottish ancestry. Maybe it's because I can still remember my Scottish ...read more
‘Your Wife is Beautiful’ is the title for this week’s newsletter, I proudly announced to my wife. “Why not call it ‘Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder’? or ‘You are Beautiful’?” my wife inquired. She was trying to be inclusive of those readers who ...read more
In the last newsletter we posted a video called First Date. It now has 8.3 million hits. Last week we posted the news story with an interview about this touching father daughter story on our Dads4Kids Facebook page. See the Daddy-Daughter Date Goes V ...read more
Sociologist David Papenoe said that no civilisation ever survived after its family life deteriorated. But if you don’t believe him, listen to GK Chesterton, “This triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only dest ...read more
I am getting older, so my testosterone is dropping, but when I see a naked woman, it is hard not to look twice. The trouble is that these days, naked women are everywhere and they always seem to be looking straight back at me. When I go to the newsag ...read more
The Dads4Kids Fatherhood Foundation will be running ten week fathering courses called, ‘Good to Great’ in the later part of this year. ‘Good to Great’ is not a pushover fathering course but a course that is highly interactive and brings real challeng ...read more
Recently the Weekend Australian Magazine did a story on Fred Hollow's daughters and their visit to Nepal where their renowned father did much of his famous ophthalmology work amongst the poor. Connecting it to Dad has been a lifelong challenge for th ...read more
Dads4Kids is going through a period of change. We need to connect more with you, our readers. We need to consider what we have achieved, who we are doing it for and what we might do better. Improvement is always possible and none of us can ever say t ...read more
Fatheroos and Socceroos - we have a lot in common. We both make mistakes. We have our wins and we have our losses. We need encouragement. We need our fans. We need our coaches and we need to work hard at training to get better. The similarities betwe ...read more
I am a sook. Yes, it is now out in the open. Everyone knows now! I rarely go a week without crying. Tears are an occupational health hazard if your mission is to turn the tide of fatherlessness. I am crying for others or crying for myself or maybe a ...read more
