Just For Dads

  • How to Pick the Right Father's Day Card

    How to Pick the Right Father's Day Card

    Do you ever wonder if the card you've chosen is right? With Father's Day around the corner, here's an easy way to make the perfect selection. Before you go card shopping, ask yourself: What kind of dad is...

  • How to be a Super Dad without Having to be Super Dad

    How to be a Super Dad without Having to be Super Dad

    Being a loving and caring father and husband is the key to raising healthy, happy children. But even if your heart is with your family, there are...

  • Have Fun Fishing with Your Preschooler

    Have Fun Fishing with Your Preschooler

    Summer's here and so is fishing. Fishing is a rewarding sport of fresh air, learning about the environment and the development of patience. It can be the ideal sport for preschoolers, if you introduce it in a...

  • Becoming "Marriage Warriors"

    Becoming "Marriage Warriors"

    Fatherhood has changed so much in the last twenty or thirty years that it would be almost unrecognizable to my father. He was a member of the last generation of hard-working fathers who were remote figures to...

  • Appreciation for Dads

    Appreciation for Dads

    More Stories for Dad Are you the World's Greatest Dad? Fathers: Are you an Effective Role Model for Your Children? Today's Family Man: Success Tips for Dads Build a Kite with Dad What...

  • Build a Kite with Dad

    Build a Kite with Dad

    Father's Day is about spending quality time with Dad. Building something fun together, like a kite, builds memories and is a treat for the whole family. Don't know where to start? Check out these tips from The...

  • Today's Family Man: Success Tips for Dads

    Today's Family Man: Success Tips for Dads

    In fatherhood, concrete evidence of good parenting may seem hard to come by, but, contrary to the reality of sports, winning isn't everything...

  • Fathers: Are you an Effective Role Model for Your Children?

    Fathers: Are you an Effective Role Model for Your Children?

    Fathers, what if your life IS the message? What if how you choose to live your life is the central learning that your children have come to earth...

  • Ten tips in making it "All About Her" on Mother's Day.

    Ten tips in making it "All About Her" on Mother's Day.

    It comes once a year. It's always at the same time. It's always on Sunday and millions of people observe it. NO, it's not the Super Bowl and it's...

  • Today's Family Man: Celebrating a Happy Mother's Day of Invention

    Today's Family Man: Celebrating a Happy Mother's Day of Invention

    I'm holding baby Ari while finishing dinner as Benjamin, 7, and Jacob, 3, run around the house, inflicting pain on each other, when my wife calls...

  • Couvade Syndrome - Pregnant Dads

    Couvade Syndrome - Pregnant Dads

    I remember my first pregnancy all too well. From the moment of conception I went through a series of problems, some minor some serious. I was one of the lucky ones not to have experienced severe morning sickness...

  • Building a Sandbox

    Building a Sandbox

    For backyard play equipment a sandbox is a good place to start! Children can have hours of fun in a sandbox using their imaginations, building castles, towns or cities. The plans for this sandbox are very simple...

  • Part-Time Dad?  Not!

    Part-Time Dad? Not!

    Somebody very important in our world asked me, what is it like to be a part-time dad? This gave me some food for thought. Especially as there are so many aspects to being a parent. One of those is some...

  • Will You Be My Daddy...?

    Will You Be My Daddy...?

    "Will you be my daddy, because I don't have one?" the child's words haunt my heart and mind all summer. . .and will for the rest of my life. Katie was born November 2, 1993 in Nova Scotia. She is...

  • Daddy, Are You Listening?

    Daddy, Are You Listening?

    Jennifer screamed at the top of her lungs. Immediately I reacted. But not with the concern, compassion or sensitivity such a shrill would be expected to engender in an attentive parent. No, in that moment, I was...



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