Best Parents

Most fathers spend less than ten minutes a day with their daughters. Life has become so busy that time for important relationships tends to get shoved to the side in favor of extra work or out of sheer exhaustion. But it's an unbalanced equation that has far-reaching ramifications. Young daughters in the tween and teen years especially need their fathers to be part of their lives. They are going through so much change and turmoil that they will need a father who can help them through these years Read more [...]

Since mothers give birth and are generally the nurturers in the family, we tend to discount the importance of a dad's role in the family. That is one of the few traditional roles that have stuck with us since the days when fathers were hunters and mothers gathered wood for the day's meal. Fathers were often absent and today still, this is often the case. An absent dad adds pressure to a mother's already heavy load. Not only does she physically have to do everything, but she has to be there emotionally Read more [...]

When you have kids and are out to manage them on their own without the support of your better half, it is not easy. It may be for a day, or because of a divorce. However, a father has to be prepared and learn how to deal with kids. A father, who is left alone with his children to manage on his own, can have a harrowing time when he does not know what to expect. Kids can get completely in control of a situation, and that is when things start getting dangerous. They can get unruly, and do everything Read more [...]

Being a father is not necessarily the "be all" and "end all" of the male existence as compared to what motherhood is for many women. The biggest difference is probably in the biology. Whereas women are biologically wired to be a mother, fatherhood may be more of an incidental or sometimes even an accidental occurrence. It's kind of hard to describe, but though men are needed in order to procreate, their role, once the creation part is done, has historically, and yes, biologically Read more [...]