Research confirms that the benefits of healthy father-daughter bonds result in decreased rates of promiscuity, substance abuse, dropping out of high school, image obsession, depression and even suicide. To strengthen communication and enhance time spent together between daughters and their dads, the National Center for Fathering has pulled together the…

As I’m sitting in my living room, having just put my baby down to sleep for what will inevitably be just fifteen minutes, I have to take this time to tell you about the last six and a half weeks.   The last time I wrote a ‘First Time Father’…

Recently, there have been a lot of television shows, reality shows, demonstrating the huge amount of clutter in the homes of what appear to be ordinary people.  While I don’t find myself to be a terrible hoarder, I look around my house and understand how this happens.  I, too, am…

I am an unfit parent. Our first child is just mere days from being born, and I can already say I'm an unfit parent. Now, what do I mean when I say I'm an unfit parent? Not that I'm a horrible parent, but a fat one. I won't know I'm…

If you're about to have a baby, or are planning on having a baby, and you only take one piece of advice from this column, make it the following. Only pay for and go to birthing classes if you're too lazy to look up basic information online. My wife and…