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My Biggest Fear as a Father? That My Son Will Grow Up Just Like Me.
Mickey Fuertes finally realizes that even immature jerks can become great dads. — I have a terrible secret to share with you: for the better part of my life, I was a jerk. Picture in your mind...
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A Crutch, a Wish, a Bandaid, and the Search for Faith that Actually Matters
What happens to faith when you come face-to-face with tragedy? — The scars on his hands and legs told his story. And the stories his parents told would make any parent cling a little tighter to their...
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How to Kill The Quitter Inside You
Alan Bishop has a solution to all of the negative excuses that prevent us from getting what we really want: Kill the quitter inside you. — What is it that makes you want to quit? Have you ever asked...
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Imaginary Stars: Half-Assed Discipline and Tips for Holistic Parents
Andy Hinds discovered that his scary daddy voice was no longer working to get his kids to behave. So he brought out the big guns: a star chart. — I was a high school teacher for a few years. I was...
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The Drill Instructor and the Lonely Boy: A Powerful Video
There is a lot to be said for discipline, and even more for positive male role models. This video has both. — This video is quite short, but the takeaway content is huge. To be clear, this isn’t a new...
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What Does it Mean to Follow Your Dreams?
Ben Riggs shares the secret to abandoning the rat race and fullfilling your dreams. “Everyone loves something, even if it’s only tortillas.” – Chogyam Trungpa We all dream. There is nothing we can...
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How To Teach a Man or a Boy
Among the most harmful things we do to men and boys is leave them to their own devices. ___ How can you teach men to be independent if you don’t make them learn things on their own? This is what a...
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Raising Compassionate Boys: Healing Mistakes
“The wound is the place where the light enters you” ~Rumi (on parenting?) One morning when my older son was 6 year old, he would not get out of bed until 7:45–30 minutes before school started. Then he...
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My Son Called My Wife Fat. Here’s Why I Apologized to Him.
Scotty Schrier went to teach his son a lesson. Instead, he learned one himself. — It started out like any other night. The kids had eaten dinner and got pajama’s on. We were about to start the...
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Cris Carter Has a Moment—and It’s a Game-Changer
Following on Cris Carter’s remarks, MaleSurvivor Executive Director Christopher M. Anderson tells us what to say to people who are on the fence about using violence to discipline kids. ___ This is the...
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Is There Still a Place for Physical Discipline?
I was raised by the belt, but should I do the same with my children? — I was raised on the idea that if you spare the rod, than you spoil the child. And in that context, I was surely not spoiled. My...
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21 Tweets: “Why We Don’t Spank Our Kids”
For an ever increasing number of dads and moms, spanking their kids is not an option. Here are 21 good reasons why. – We recently surveyed parents on Twitter and asked them to tweet why they choose...
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Choosing Discipline Over Punishment
Tor Constantino is sharing an episode of abuse from his past in the wake of the recent arrests of two NFL players on child abuse charges. ___ The age-old debate of whether or not parents should spank...
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What Spanking May Be Teaching Your Children
Lina Acosta Sandaal shares what she knows about spanking and “fear based discipline.” 70% of Americans approve of “a good hard spanking” and 94% of parents of children age 3-4 report spanking their...
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How Do You Want Your Child to Feel?
Daniel De Guia considers how words and action can make a child feel, and how hard it is not to intervene on behalf of a stranger’s kid. When I first became a dad, I was very strict with my oldest...
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Jim Schwartz: His Shrinking NFL Leadership After a Stupid Stunt
Tor Constantino is fired up at the incredible lack of leadership by one NFL coach—just when the League needs true leaders most —- For the record, I’m a big NFL fan and have been shaking my head the...
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Three Ways to Kill Routine and Revive Your Romance
At some point most relationships end up in the rut of routine, here is a sure-fire way to get out of it and stay out for good. - – - Ever drive to work only to arrive and remember little if anything...
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A Dad’s 3 Rules to Easy Parenting
This dad has it all figured out in a tongue-in-cheek essay where he lays out the secret to child discipline. — PARENTS! (Yes, I am YELLING at YOU!) Parenthood is easy. The nuts and bolts of parenting...
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Dear Dad: From the One With the Discipline Trend
Dear Dad has three strikes when it comes to disciplining other people’s kids. ____ Dear Dad, Is it ever OK to discipline someone else’s child? Physically redirecting? Time outs? Verbally?...
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5 Things Awesome Dads Do
Being an awesome dad doesn’t mean giving your kids everything or jumping through hoops for them. ___ Here’s some simple, practical advice for fathers. Most guys do this stuff already, so it’s really...
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