11 Sept 2009 Clarity. Today is an anniversary of 9/11. So many people died and the images of that day are so clear in our minds. Sharp images but little mental or emotional clarity. Raw and vivid. Do you know that 19,000 people die each year in the US because they cannot afford basic health [...]
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09 Sept 09 Nice date 09/09/09 … nine months of pregnancy and nine months to get really comfy with your kid. As I write that my emotion is ‘delight’. Here you are in this really first exciting part of pregnancy. The first 12 weeks can be so, so, so up and down and all around [...]
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7 Sept 2009 Without doubt the greatest of all fathering skills you can grow is humour. ‘A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road’. Henry Ward Beecher ‘A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as [...]
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5 Sept 2009 Phase #2 of pregnancy (12-24 weeks) is usually not an area of high drama. Of course there are a few medical issues that can bring concern … particularly if you are waiting for any genetic testing. However, this blog continues to focus on the fatherhood qualities that you can grow throughout pregnancy [...]
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03 Sept 2009 Men love this quality most just didn’t know that this happened to them. Since all men were children once and brought up by an adult, every man knows that ‘the parent’ is expected to have multiple arms. Now you get to grow yours. They don’t grow all at once and they really [...]
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01 September 2009 Phase #2 of pregnancy … what does need to be done to make room for your baby? Most of us are totally overwhelmed with daily life. This means we put off today then put off tomorrow. Learning to see what needs to be done and doing it is a very important skill. [...]
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30 August 2009 Every day of pregnancy during this Phase has some change that is almost noticeable. Get used to it. Once your baby is born there are periods where your baby changes absolutely every single day … that’s part of the wow factor of being a parent. For those men reading this who already [...]
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28 August 2009 Now that you are in the 12-24 week of pregnancy you know that you are becoming more aware. Until you’ve read this blog you might not know that this happens because you are making this huge personal transformation. Becoming more aware is a biological need once you are a father. Awareness must [...]
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26 August 2009 Patience is a vulture that eats you up inside … we’ve heard that before or something like it. Patience is actually pretty weird when you come to think about it. As children we were hardly patient and it’s a trait we had to learn. As a father you will have to teach [...]
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24 August 2009 If you find yourself feeling that time is moving along you’re right. Once you are pregnant time changes. That’s nothing compared to what having children around 24/7 does to Time. See how thankful you need to be that pregnancy actually covers almost a year of time instead of happening ten minutes after [...]
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