A View From the "Not So" Easy Chair
Well, we've had some great response to the last blog entry announcing a giveaway of Dennis Rainey's book, Interviewing Your Daughters Date. As daughters have now gone back to school, many entering High School or College for the first time, this is a great resource for Dads to use to help us navigate this very […]
It may be a phrase more popular for an older generation but I sense it still get’s used by dads all over the world when explaining to their children why they need to do something. There is some merit to the reasoning behind using it. As a dad, the leader of your home, your word […]
We all want to be an “olympic dad”. And, we all remember (or most of us do) the image of Derek Redmond rounding the track early in his 400m race back in 1992 and pulling up due to a severe hamstring injury. The story that unfolded showed us what an olympic dad looked like. As […]
Obedience or Exasperation…so which is it? Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged. (Colossians 3:20, 21 ESV) This verse has often been a guardrail in my parenting. My lovely wife has brought it to my attention more than once as well. […]
A father expressing his love exercises an awesome power to shape a life. A father who fails to utilize this power also shapes a life. Present or absent, used or unused, the power of the father is lifelong, and indelible. This sad song wakes me up every time.
DadPad: Be a Better Dad Baseball and Football have their “throwback” days where the teams will wear uniforms from another era. Well, in that vein, we thought that for the rest of this week, we’d do some DadPad Throwback. We are now three years strong but many of you haven’t ever gone back into our […]
Well, you did it? Or did you? For the past 16 days, I’ve shared some thoughts, challenges and tried to help us think about our roles as dads in a fresh, significant and honorable manner. I honestly don’t expect that I’ll hear from anyone that actually did these each day. But, it’s a framework that […]
Remember playing that game with friends or your family? We would do it on car trips. If you’ve never played, it’s simply a game where one person thinks of anything in the world and then you take turns asking “yes”/”no” questions to see if you can guess what it is. Well, today’s 20 question game […]
The first 7 days of the Father’s Day Challenge have focused on spending time and energy getting to know your dad a little better. Now, as we head into the week before Father’s Day, we will spend the rest of the challenge looking at ways we can encourage each other toward being better dads, sharing […]
Yesterday, I tried to get us to consider our dads and why they did what they did (or do). Many of us had great role models as fathers and he’s your hero. Others only wince or become angry when the subject of our dads is brought up. Whether your dad was your hero or felt […]