This is a clip from tv show "Fresh Prince of Bell Air" with Will Smith, in this clip Will Smith gets reunited with his estranged father (Lou) after 14 years of absense, who tells him that he is coming to spend the summer with him. But Lou disappoints Will again by telling him that there trip will have to be postponed.

Even thou this is acting (great acting), I was inspired to post this clip.
Real live can be a lot harder.

Here is a site for the single father's out there, as well as the women that would be friends or love a man already with children.

Curious? Join up and have a look around it's free to join Meet Fathers Online

- Eric

Remember that when it’s all said and done, your kids will accurately reflect many of the things you’ve given them.

They’ll reflect your joy, your enthusiasm, your anger, and your love. They’ll see how you treat your wife, and how you treat women in general. They’ll see how you respond to stressful times, and how honest you are. They’ll see how you take care of yourself, and how you nurture others. And they’ll see how important your family is to you.

You give it to them, and they reflect it back.

What are you choosing to give your children?

Warmly,

Mark Brandenburg

Mark Brandenburg MA, CPCC
mark@eqnow.org
www.markbrandenburg.com
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Phone (+1) 651-766-9976
"Helping Men Succeed"

I just recently signed up to Facebook ... you won’t find much on it - now I’m there, I actually don’t know what to do with myself.

I mean, I say ‘yes’ to people I know who ask to be my friend and have popped a few pictures up for the world to see.

But now what? I mean, what’s so great about this peer-to-peer or social networking that has, as far as Google can tell, two hundred million people worldwide facebooking, My Spacing, You Tubing or Beboing every single month ... have I missed something?

To call it social networking is really pulling the wool over our eyes, because there’s not a great deal of socialising going on at all.

In the first 2 days, around 25 people miraculously appeared at the door of my Facebook page, asking to hang out ...

A number of years ago, my four-year-old daughter was starting to say our grace before dinner. “Daddy, fold your hands like this!” she shrieked. Everyone at the table was startled by the intensity of her outburst.

But if we consider the world from the standpoint of a four-year-old girl, it may make perfect sense. She wakes up in the morning and isn’t always sure if she’s going to school or not. She’s not quite sure of which clothes she should wear, and she’s not always sure who she’ll be spending time with each day. She’s not all that comfortable with the language yet, so it’s not always easy to get her point across.

Posted by Jeremy Adam Smith

I liked this: "10 Signs that Parenting is More Equal than it Used to be."

And I thought this was interesting:

Achieving a work-family balance doesn’t seem as foreign to fathers these days as it once did. Technology advances are giving fathers the freedom to focus on their family life while maintaining their workplace responsibilities…or so it seems.

I don’t know what your marriage looks like, but the reality is that there will be a huge number of people who hear this who are all set to throw in the towel – half of all marriages in this country end in divorce. The state of the other half of marriages will look like patch-work quilt … some great, some not so great.

Communicator & author, Walt Larimore says that when he and his wife buy a wedding present for friends, that they give them a box … a very beautiful, but empty box. In it, they put these words:
“Most people who get married believe a myth – they believe that marriage is a beautiful box filled with all the things they’ve longed for - they believe that it is filled with companionship, sexual fulfilment, intimacy and friendship. The truth is that marriage at the start is an empty box, you must put something in before you can take something out.

Take a few minutes today and jot down how dramatically different your life would be if you had never met your wife. Of course your kids would not exist, you would still be dressing like a mad scientist and your culinary skills would consist of spaghetti every night. But also talk about all the things you treasure that only she can bring. The things no one else knows about.

Put a note on her pillow tomorrow or tape it on the front door on your way out. Just another little way to say “thank you” to your best friend.

To learn the art of writing notes to your wife, click here.

Posted with permission from www.allprodad.com

Have you realized the most important thing in a young girl’s life? It is her FATHER!

A father carves the way for their daughter’s lives, and when a father strengthens and rebuilds his bond with his daughter, it shapes her life and his for the better. But how ever much a father loves his daughter if he doesn’t realize what a girl child usually expects of him, his relationship would be strained.

Girls seek for a sense of protection and safety from their fathers. They feel that fathers should be available when needed. The real value of a father in a girl’s life is that it is from fathers that girls learn about males in the world;

In his book Making Children Mind Without Losing Yours, Dr. Kevin Leman writes: “The permissive parent essentially says, ‘Oh, do your own thing. Whatever you want is OK.’ My years of counseling parents and children have shown me that in a permissive environment, kids rebel. They rebel because they feel anger and hatred toward their parents for a lack of guidelines and limit setting. In one study involving elementary grades, the children were allowed to eat anything they wanted in the cafeteria over a period of thirty days. The study showed that although children predictably would ‘pig out on sweets’ and other junk food first, after a few weeks they tended to go back to a quite balanced diet.” A tangible lesson that children do indeed want rules and boundaries. Permissiveness is wimpyness, and your kids will end up hating you for it.

Be firm with your boundaries and guidelines, but be gentle as well — it’s the formula for happy, well-adjusted kids. Do it now — they deserve it, and so do you!