by Dad Central | Dec 18, 2019 | Dads, Father Involvement, Health, Healthy Relationships, Involved Fathers, Mental health, Moms, New Dads, parenting, Resources, Separated Dads, Things To Do, tips, Training, Young Dads |
by John Hoffman Not that I want to be a Grinch during the season of good cheer but… Here’s one of the less pleasant realities of being a parent of little kids. Sometimes the days that you really, really want to go well are the ones that really, really, really don’t go...
by Dad Central | Mar 5, 2019 | Father Involvement, Healthy Relationships, Moms |
by John Hoffman In my second last post for Dad Central I want to go back one of the most important factors in fathering, which is mothers. Not the father’s own mother, but the mother of his children. One of the first articles I wrote about fathering, almost 30 years...
by Dad Central | Feb 14, 2019 | Dads, Father Involvement, Healthy Relationships, Moms |
by Brian Russell Maybe I just made up a new proverb: it’s the invisible load that is often the heaviest to bear. It is the things we are not aware of that weigh us down the most because we feel their weight, but don’t realize what is causing it. This is...
by Dad Central | Dec 7, 2018 | Father Involvement, Moms, New Dads |
by John Hoffman As I continue to wind down to the end of my blogging days for Dad Central Ontario, I revisit another one of the constant themes of my writing for fathers over the years. That’s the importance of dads sharing, tuning into, and supporting their partner’s...
by Dad Central | May 15, 2017 | Father Involvement, Healthy Relationships, Moms |
by John Hoffman The other day I read an article about women’s invisible workload, written by Lisa Wade, professor of sociology at Occidental College. The idea that mothers have a hidden workload – a psychological and emotional burden – that men don’t always see is not...
by Dad Central | Mar 1, 2017 | Father Involvement, Moms |
by John Hoffman I want to pick up on a point a father named JC made in my last blog. He said that when he first starting going to his local dad program it seemed that, like him, all the dads he met were struggling a bit to figure out their role. In their families the...
