THE FATHER LIFE

There’s a lot of attention on the economy right now and the difficult times we’re in – and many people are worrying and preoccupied with their finances and economic struggles.   This type of stress can take its toll on you and your relationships.   For you and your significant other, it’s [...]

Well, the big Sunday is coming!
NO, not Super Bowl Sunday… the one after that.
Valentines DAY!
Got plans for the big day of romance with your special woman?
I personally don’t like the idea of focusing just one day out of the year on romancing our wives. It should be something we family dads naturally WANT [...]

In every marriage, spouses face an inevitable choice between their children and their spouse. It is a classic dilemma that confronts every couple and one that is inescapable and difficult. It is especially true in second marriages, like mine.  I have to admit, it is an ongoing issue in our home [...]

I recently learned some statistics that surprised me, but upon reflection they really made sense.  What do you think the rate of divorce is between first, second, and third marriages?  Think about it.  I didn’t and came to the wrong conclusion.
It’s pretty much agreed by most experts that first marriages [...]

I don’t know if my wife and I will ever have children. We want to. We’ve tried. We’ve been married for seven years and have yet to be blessed with a little bundle of joy screaming out during the night because it’s hungry, it’s poopy, it’s any number of those things that drive new parents [...]

I believe all clichés are generally true.  How else could something become a cliché in the first place?   Not surprisingly, then, all the clichés about second marriages are true.  Indeed, comedy careers have been built around jokes about a second set of in-laws, second husbands or wives, and blended families. For [...]

Last week while on vacation, I sat up one night with my two favorite daughters (I only have two!) and watched “Jon and Kate Plus Eight.” I have to confess that I was more interested in watching this since I knew that Jon and Kate were no longer together. I wondered how they were going [...]

I can still remember the night like it was yesterday. My wife and I had a trusted friend spending the night at our house while he was in town for a business meeting. This friend knew us both pretty well and had been a great source of advice over the years. He jokingly asked my [...]

When I was sitting in Chick-Fil-A with a girlfriend and her little boy, along with my two little princesses, it became painfully obvious to me that they had been spending way too much time with their Daddy (or too little time with Mommy) when Abigail let one rip on the plastic booth below us. As [...]

Remembering Chevy Chase in those summer vacation movies reminds me of the fact that most so-called “family vacations” are, at best, vacations for the kids and torture for the parents. I’m generalizing, of course, but most generalizations and clichés have a strong basis in truth. I stand by the proposition that [...]