by Dad Central | Jun 16, 2015 | Father Involvement, New Dads |
by John Hoffman I’m old enough to be a grandpa, but I still remember parts of my earliest weeks of fatherhood like it was yesterday. Two things surprised me. One was how hard it was, at first, to be the kind of hands-on dad I had planned to be. The other surprise was...
by Dad Central | May 19, 2015 | Infants, New Dads |
by John Hoffman Wanna build your baby’s brain? I’ve got two words for you: touch and interaction. We’ve been hearing about the importance of baby brain development for over 20 years. And it is true. Baby brains do a lot of important growing in the first few years of...
by Dad Central | Feb 20, 2015 | Father Involvement, Healthy Relationships, New Dads |
by John Hoffman You know how they say babies don’t come with an instruction manual? Well, neither do new moms. And a really important part of being a good dad is understanding and supporting the mother of your children, a task that can be very challenging in the early...
by Dad Central | Nov 24, 2014 | Dads, Father Involvement, Infants, New Dads |
by John Hoffman I’ve often said that fathers have to play catch-up in early parenthood. Mothers get a biological and social head start at parenting and that’s just the way it is. Breastfeeding is one of the things that gives moms that head start. And breastfeeding is...
by tuval | Sep 4, 2014 | Dads, New Dads, Young Dads |
Alex was able to work most of the summer on a bridge construction crew by the Gravel River in Northwestern Ontario. Most of the pounding manual work was behind the handles of a jackhammer. Occasionally there was a requirement for him to log some time on the wheeled...
by Dad Central | Dec 9, 2013 | Dads, Father Involvement, Indigenous Fathers, New Dads |
It has been one year since my daughter, Laura, and Alex got married. With the addition of baby Alex Junior (AJ) last July the time seems to have gone by in an instant, like the flash of the firefly in the late evening. An Aboriginal proverb by the Blackfoot likens...
