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Fatherhood Friday Tips and Advice – Andrew Bennett of BenSpark.com

June 12, 2015 by dadofdivas 1 Comment

Our next contribution to Fatherhood Fridays Tips and Advice (T and A – where was your mind?) is from Andrew Bennett from benspark.com. My goal with these posts is to share with you great dads that are providing sage advice for you to ponder. I hope that you enjoy and look forward to your comments!

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Fatherhood Friday T & N w BenSpark from BenSpark on Vimeo.

So what are your thoughts on this video and the tips and advice that Andrew Bennett has shared? I look forward to hearing from each of you!

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Fatherhood Friday Tips and Advice – James Rohl AKA Portland Dad

June 5, 2015 by dadofdivas 2 Comments

Our next contribution to Fatherhood Fridays Tips and Advice (T and A – where was your mind?) is from James Rohl also known as Portland Dad who writes at http://www.sahdpdx.com/. My goal with these posts is to share with you great dads that are providing sage advice for you to ponder. I hope that you enjoy and look forward to your comments!

 

So what are your thoughts on this video and the tips and advice that James Rohl has shared? I look forward to hearing from each of you!

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Fatherhood Friday Tips and Advice – Dan Nessel from DadDoes.com

May 29, 2015 by dadofdivas 2 Comments

Our next contribution to Fatherhood Fridays Tips and Advice (T and A – where was your mind?) is from Dan Nessel from DadDoes.com. My goal with these posts is to share with you great dads that are providing sage advice for you to ponder. I hope that you enjoy and look forward to your comments!

So what are your thoughts on this video and the tips and advice that Dan Nessel has shared? I look forward to hearing from each of you!

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Fatherhood Friday – Tips and Advice – Pastor Jim Wenger

May 1, 2015 by dadofdivas 2 Comments

Starting today for my contribution to Fatherhood Fridays I will be providing videos from dads that will give Tips and Advice (T & A – where was your mind?) that they wish to share with other fathers. Our first contribution is from Pastor Jim Wenger, a father of two. I hope that you enjoy and look forward to your comments!

So what are your thoughts on this video and the Tips and Advice shared within. I look forward to hearing from each of you!




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Fatherhood Friday – Who Are Your Heroes?

April 24, 2015 by dadofdivas 3 Comments

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I admit it, I am a Heroes Fan. I watch it every week and love seeing what the writers come up with. You see as a kid I was into comics and loved the idea of a teenager waking up and finding that he or she had the mark of a being a mutant on them and that they were given extraordinary powers.

So I watch the new show Heroes and enjoy seeing who will use their powers for the greater good and who uses them for evil. I also find it interesting to watch and learn from the challenges that they must grapple with to try and figure out what is the meaning for their own existence (but don’t we all).

The more that I watch this show and think back to the comics I read, the fictional heroes I most admired were those everyday people that used their powers for the greater good.

I find that today, when I think of my real life heroes, these are the same type of people that I look up to. It is the people that go out of their way to make a difference in the world around them, whether that is in their child’s life, their community, their professional life or other aspect of their life, they step outside of themselves and make the world around them extraordinary. I also believe that these people tend to be selfless. These individuals are not the ones out there looking for the limelight. They are the silent masses working for change and impacting people, many times, one at a time.

Thinking about this I started wondering about who people saw as heroes in their own lives. Would it be a parent, a husband/wife, a famous person? For me, the heroes that come to mind are people that day-by-day make a difference one person at a time in my own current and past communities. I know someone could say a famous name like Mother Teresa or Ghandi or someone else like this. For me though, I keep my heroes close to home.

What about you? Who are your heroes? Why do you consider them to be your heroes?


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Fatherhood Friday – The Birds & The Bees With a 5 Year Old

April 17, 2015 by dadofdivas 2 Comments

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Last week we had a interesting question from Diva-J, “where do people come from Daddy?” We answered, a bit religiously, “God makes people” She replied, “no..no…no… I mean where do people come from” (she did truly emphasize these points). We were completely floored and had no clue that she would even want to know anything about the birds and the bees.

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J-Mom and I just looked at each other and started to back peddle, as we had not thought to have an answer for this question yet for our eldest. So we used a stalling tactic that seems to work well, at least for now. We told her, “let us think about the best answer for this and we will get back to you.” She took this and hasn’t asked again, so I guess we dodged a bullet you may say.

So my question for all of you today is how have you dealt with this and how have you approached this discussion with your own children?


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Fatherhood Friday – Discipline or Bad Parenting

April 3, 2015 by dadofdivas 13 Comments

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Have you ever had the experience where you are made to feel like the worst parent of the year when you are working to discipline your child? Have you ever said to yourself, I never thought I would say that?

I know that for me, both have occurred. As a father you have to make some big decisions that can ultimately make long lasting effects on the growth and development of your own children.

One experience that I had that just galled me was one day when I was sitting in the parking lot of a Target. Diva-J had just been taken out of the store because of bad behavior and she was crying (screaming was more like it). I placed her in her seat and buckled her into her seat. Needless to say I was a bit upset, but I did my best to keep my cool. As I was shutting the door, a young woman came up to me and said, “I saw you hit your child!”

I was incensed. I in very few words let it known to this so called do-gooder that I would never hit my child no matter how angry I would get. She still thought that I had hit Diva-J, and the only thing that I could think of that might have looked like this was when I was buckling Diva-J into her seat and I had to quickly buckle to keep her in her seat. It didn’t help that Diva-J was screaming the entire time.

Needless to say, not a moment that I would like to happen everyday, but it did teach me a lesson of how some actions can look to a passerby.

Have any of you ever had something like this happen?


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DADuary Book Review – In Search of Fatherhood by @KevinRenner #DADuary2013 #dadchat

January 28, 2013 by dadofdivas 9 Comments

 

About the Book

Marketing consultant Kevin Renner turned his crisis of confidence as a father into a personal crusade.  Renner interviewed 50 women from around the world, to understand their life stories and how they were shaped by their fathers—good, bad, and in between.  He wanted to understand fatherhood from the receiving end, as a daughter, so he could bring it home to his own daughters, then nine and thirteen.

 

That crusade became In Search of Fatherhood: A Mother Lode of Wisdom from the World of Daughterhood (Inkwater Press,May 2011).

 

At the time, Renner asked himself if he was giving his daughters what they needed, and if he even knew what that was.  No, he admits, he didn’t.  So after work and on weekends, he conducted interviews in a private therapist’s office he’d leased, women’s homes, and even hotel suites of women who traveled from around the country to share their stories.

 

“When I set out on this project, I wanted to do it for myself and for my daughters,” Renner said. “Very quickly I realized I wanted to have a lasting influence around the world on fathers, daughters, and their relationships.”

 

Some women had drawn what Renner calls “short straws” from the mix of fathers.  One was his sixth-grade girlfriend, whom he met up with decades later.  Stoked on a cocktail of drugs, chain-smoking, she had given up her own children when she hit rock-bottom after working as a stripper and attempting suicide three times.

 

But, when Renner interviewed Cheryl, whose world-famous scientist father took her to business dinners where he was feted, and where she was treated respectfully, he discovered why she had grown up with self-confidence around smart and accomplished men.

 

In Search of Fatherhood includes two-dozen other stories of women who drew the long straw, the short straw, and what the author calls “the long and the short of it.”

 

Some of the other stories he heard include:

  • Rasa’s, whose father raised her from his wheelchair until he drank himself to death when she was 12.
  • Wendy loved her single father so dearly she proposed to him at age five.
  • Courtney’s father sexually abused her until age thirteen, when she turned his German Luger on him.
  • Luna, a former drug addict, is a sex worker raising a daughter and attending college so she can free herself from the sex trade.
  • Raised in poverty during the Dust Bowl, Betty became a state supreme court justice.
  • Kim is transgender, and spent her childhood imprisoned in a boy’s body.
  • Kara was a member of the 2008 U.S. Olympic team, and whose father was killed by a drunk driver a week before she turned four.

 

Renner says the insights he took from spending a year hearing women’s stories has made him a profoundly more insightful father. Among his biggest lessons, he says, were the importance of tough love, and how everything that he does as a father, and that every father does, communicates in subtle yet lasting ways. “Take your daughter to your workshop, your office, the bowling alley, the movies,” he says. “Little things make the big difference.  They message that she’ll take away is that she matters—not just to you, but in the world at large.”

 


About Kevin Renner

 

Marketing executive Kevin Renner woke up on a Monday with one glaring realization: “This is the end of my life as a corporate guy.”

 

Renner shifted from a corporate life to founding B2B Market Strategies, a consulting firm.  But, that literal wake-up call didn’t end with a career change.  He realized that he didn’t know his daughters very well, and at ages nine and thirteen, they would be off to high school, to college, to their own lives within a few short years.

 

When Renner asked himself “What does a good father look like?” and no answer came to mind, he decided to find out. He interviewed 50 women from around the world for his book In Search of Fatherhood: A Mother Lode of Wisdom from the World of Daughterhood. His book is the first step toward his goal of having a lasting influence around the world on fathers, daughters, and their relationships.

 

A former journalist, Renner has his MBA from the University of California-Berkeley, and a B.A. in social sciences from UC Santa Cruz.

 

My Take on the Book
While this book is short, it has so much in it. As a father of daughters I was amazed at the author’s findings! As many of you know I have been doing my Dads in the Limelight Series for a year and a half and this series looks at fatherhood through the eyes of a father. What I loved about this book is that it looks at fatherhood from the eyes of a daughter. This book takes the idea of fatherhood to the next level and greatly illuminates what being a father means (or should mean) in today’s society. If you area father of girls this is a much read, but even if you are not and you are a father of a son, this book still is one that I would highly recommend!

 

 

All opinions expressed in this review are my own and not influenced in any way by the company.  Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer or provider. Please refer to this site’s Disclaimer for more information. I have been compensated or given a product free of charge, but that does not impact my views or opinions.

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Fatherhood Friday Tips and Advice

October 15, 2010 by dadofdivas 1 Comment

This is our second contribution to Fatherhood Fridays Tips and Advice (T and A – where was your mind?). My goal with these posts is to share with you great dads that are providing sage advice for you to ponder. I hope that you enjoy and look forward to your comments!

So what are your thoughts on this video and the contents within. I look forward to hearing from each of you!


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