Dads – are you running on empty?

Just the other day, my wife pulled me up on a classic ‘male-ism’ … she said, I thought you weren’t going to be doing work tonight.
You know what my response was … “I’m not, I’m just replying to a couple of e-mails.”

Its faulty logic I know, but that’s a man’s mind – we are so linier in our thinking, that it’s hard to move from one job to another, when the first is left undone … in other words, square work away, and then, focus on the family.

I’m stoked to have a wife who is so protective of my time. If she wasn’t, I’d always be running on empty, trying to fit 30 hours plus sleep into a 24 hour day … and it would be my relationship with her and with my kids that suffers.

One guy told me that it’s like trying to drive a car as far as you can when the fuel gauge is on Empty
He said that as dads, we’re really good at assuming everything will be okay.

Play Is the Key to Learning

In our attempts to prepare our children for life’s challenges, advance their experiences and begin the journey of education, life has become more complex and stressful for our little people.

Because fathers are busy working and have less down time, it is often thought the best way to spend time with young children is through organized events such as gym classes, music, swimming, dance, sport etc. However, what children want and need the most is time spent playing and interacting with their parents and fathers are no exception. We are creating stressed children who really want to do simple things and do them over and over again!

10 Things I wish my parents had taught me… better.

Enough time has passed in my life where I can look back and (mostly) understand the things my parents had taught me, or at least tried to teach me, or maybe forgot to teach me as I was growing up. I wish now that I had paid attention and listened to the importance of knowing these things and how they will ultimately shape the person that I have become, or have yet to become. I plan and hope that I will be able to teach these things to my son, so he truly understands the importance of each lesson as he begins his life.