Parenting

My wife made a hugely profound statement the other day.  We had just finished watching...

Perhaps I’m just a curmudgeonly old guy now, but it seems to me that people...

Many high school boys are involved in sports programs.  Sports can be a great vehicle...

Porn is part of your son’s everyday life. He sees it every day on television,...

A ton of research shows that children from fatherless homes fare worse in life than...

Courage is the quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face uncertainty,...

As a family and parenting advocate I get the pleasure of meeting a wide variety...

Better Dads and Vancouver Courageous Dad (CVD) partnered to host the 1st Annual Father-Daughter Conference...

Perhaps no character trait embodies healthy masculinity more than that of honor (healthy honor—other cultures...

The need to take risks in order to feel alive, to do the impossible, to...

Fathers have an incredible influence (positive or negative) on nearly every aspect of their daughter’s...

Hostilities exist.  President F.D. Roosevelt spoke those two words within his legendary “Day of Infamy”...

Last week we talked about young men thinking that they didn’t feel like men.  My...

With all the negative outcomes regarding promiscuous sexuality, it is especially important that our pre-teens...

Part two of this article looks at the incredible potential fathers have to influence the...

In anticipation of Father's Day the following is Part 1 of a two-part article on...

Porn is part of your son’s everyday life. He sees it every day on television,...

Perhaps no character trait embodies healthy masculinity more than that of honor.  Honor is the...

One of the major conflicts I hear from parents of teenagers is whether to allow...

Surprisingly, one activity that is very healthy in the emotional development of boys is hunting....

Today, with the challenges to our economy, it is imperative to teach your children the...

Life is difficult. And the things that mean the most in life are the hardest....

By the time a young man has entered puberty he is well aware of the...

The type of men we are determines the type of men our boys become.  In...

There is an old legend regarding the Cherokee Indian youth's Rite of Passage. When a...

Oftentimes the expectations we have for our children have a tendency to come to fruition. ...

Fatherless boys tend to follow in the footsteps modeled for them, perpetuating fatherlessness onto future...

Every month of the year is some kind of an “awareness month.” In fact, for...

Have you ever thought how much better the world would be if we could get...

My senior year in high school I bought my dream car; a metallic beer-bottle brown...