This is my daughter last year in DC at Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum. It’s remarkable how much one man’s impact has stretched for generations, beyond his own family. But it also makes me wonder, how did his own kids turn out? I believe that the true legacy of a man, is what he instills into his…
Month: January 2014
The Fatherhood Crisis in America
The demographic stats…what’s at sake
Paying it Forward to Other Dads
One of my favorite scriptures is Psalm by David, commit everything you do to the Lord, trust Him, and He will help you. As a parent, you’ll never be perfect, but you can always get better. And as fathers, we need all the resources we can get when it comes to parenting and fathering. Recently I’ve…
New Hope for Education?
I’m sitting here at 10:48 pm and I can’t go to sleep because I just finished what is perhaps one of the more riveting books I’ve read in a while, Tony Wagner’s The Global Achievement Gap. Before I proceed, I must confess that I’m an ed-head as my friend affectionately calls me, which means that…
To Everything There is a Season
One of my favorite biblical lessons, is the reminder that in life, there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven. A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant and a time to harvest. A time to kill and a time to heal. A time to tear…
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions. Albert Einstein
The Working from Home Dad (pulling double duty)
January 6, 2014- Man, there’s a lot to being a stay at home dad, I have a lot of respect for those guys. Today I had a glimpse of as I tried to juggle working from home with my youngest daughter (18 months). My oldest was in school, but as circumstance would have it, grandma…
Why I hate school, but love education
Lately I’ve been reading the book, The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don’t Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need and What we can do about it. This video by the spoken word artist Suli Breaks is a great reminder of the fact that right now, our educational system isn’t built…
New Year, New You?
January 2, 2014- New year, new resolutions, new you. Right? Perhaps. If you’re like the millions of other Americans who each year creates a new set of resolutions, this may be what you’re focusing on right now. Personally, I love this time of year. The goal setting for a new year, reflecting on the past,…
everyday fatherhood 