Listen to Scott being interviewed by Jim Mora on Radio New Zealand.

Well - I guess below is the ultimate reason why parents should always check their children's homework before they hand it in. This was submitted by a first grade girl for a homework assignment:

After it was graded and the child brought it home, she returned to school the next day with the following note:

Dear Ms. D.,

I want to be very clear on my child's illustration. It is NOT of me on a dance pole on a stage in a strip joint. I work at Home Depot and had commented to my daughter how much money we made in the recent snowstorm. This photo is of me selling a shovel.

Mrs. H.

My wife works as a hairdresser and so therefore we have very crazy eating habits, She might go all day without eating because she has been busy, and then she is straight into dinner then off to bed – especially as she has at least 2 late nights per week and they can have her finishing at up to 8.30pm/9pm.

Now on the days that Renee isn’t around I will cook for the household – including Pyper and she is relatively easy because it’s the same food different day, just a variation on the selection as such.

So this week because we are such budding chefs, I have been personally sick of the same boring food, and we wanted something a little different and healthy. Something that could be prepared in a smallish amount of time with minimal amount of ingredients. Well we managed to come up with a new system, and one that didn’t include chilli mince in either tortillas or taco shells. We seem to have a hundred weight watchers menu books or healthy menu books lying around gathering dust so we got them out and did what most smart people would do and read them looking for good recipes of which 95% of them are it was fantastic to see.

I was at a meeting last week, and someone asked me if we did things with the rural community, and I thought well we don’t directly. Most of the fathers that access our information seem to be urban. It got me thinking about when I was brought up in the country and how a very unique situation farmers have with their children. And this is because usually their children are seen as an extra labour unit to either get the cows in or do jobs on the farm, which are not paid for.

So I thought that farmers over urban fathers have a great opportunity to get more involved with their children and to spend more time with them. Usually the farm has the family home on it, so it’s a lot more accessible to their children and also to the farmers in general.

53% of couples don’t know the best time of the month to conceive (it’s one or two days before ovulation)
Source Clearblue Fertility Monitor

33% of dads took more than two weeks paternity leave in 2005
Source Office for National Statistics UK

59% of parents say their kids behaviour in the car ruins their concentration when driving
Source Kia Motors

31% of parents think their pre-schooler would like to be a performer when they grow up.
Source lunar Jim C Beebies programme

5 hours and 41 minutes a day is the average time new mums spend staring at their baby
Source Babies R Us

59% of parents have been given baby gifts by strangers
Source Toys R Us

45% of babies say “daddy” first while 35% say mummy first perhaps because they hear women saying “daddy” more often
Source Pampers

44 million toys are thrown away in the UK every year

Another great movie that focuses on a father and his daughter is a movie called “Dreamer Inspired by a true story”.

It’s about a man trying to save a promising race horse that has broken its leg, and get it back up to scratch so that he can breed from it. His bad luck continues though as the horse turns out to be infertile and the farm he lives on is being foreclosed on.

What is nice about this story is that the father is willing to risk everything to make sure he can still be a role model for his little girl, even though he doesn’t feel like it and feels as if his own father has let him down somewhat!

If you are looking for a feel good movie to sit down and watch with the family or your little girl keeps asking for a horse then watch this movie its great!

- Scott

I was watching the news last night after what I would call a rather "shitty week" filled with mental and financial anguish. Looking forward to the weekend, but missing my little girl for the 4 days that she's away for. So I was in the lounge at the time as the news came on about a little Samoan baby called "Miracle" who was born with a rare condition that affects her skull and bone structure, when my heart just sank. You could have pushed me to the floor with your thumb. I looked at this little baby and her mother and my eyes filled with tears and still do when I think of her! This little lady had to endure a lot of surgery to get to where she is today.

My thoughts went straight back to my own little lady – as a father how would I cope if this was Pyper, what would I do? Would I cope? And then you hear that little voice in your head saying yes you have to, you have to be there for your little girl.

A guy goes to the supermarket and notices an attractive woman waving at him.

She says hello.

He's rather taken aback because he can't place where he knows her from.

So he says, "Do you know me?"

To which she replies, "I think you're the father of one of my kids."

Now his mind travels back to the only time he has ever been unfaithful to his wife and says, "My God, are you the stripper from my bachelor party that I made love to on the pool table with all my buddies watching while your partner whipped my butt with wet celery???"

She looks into his eyes and says calmly, "No, I'm your son's teacher."

This week is neither a review on a product or service due to Easter – well not really, but this is a movie that inspired me as a father.

The PURSUIT of HAPPYNESS

It’s a must see for any father who has felt like life is just too tough. And admittedly it happens even to the best of us, Will Smith plays a sales men who decides to become an apprentice stockbroker, which isn’t paid. The movie touched me because of his adversity and his love most of all for his son, and want to be a better person.

I believe that it makes you think about what is important in life to fathers, and a question that I had was why does a country that has spent hundred of millions of $$$ on fighting a war that they will probably never win, and they can’t even support their homeless.

Not many movies like this actually hone in on Fathers and their children.

Its a 10/10 must see for all.