“Ponytails. Bunches. Plaits.” Stephen Crooks tells The Dad Website that while fatherhood has presented many challenges, he’s mastered one that’s beyond many dads: his daughter’s hair.
Baby Monitors and the Lawnmower Conundrum
How the Pandemic Pushed Me to Start My Dream Career
My Way Through Hell
Hey Pop, It’s Been a Crazy 100 Days Since You Left
Empathy Ocean
Good Dad, Bad Husband
Appointment TV
Kids Don’t Care!
Farewell Chris Wren, My Dad’s Best Mate
How My Mum Taught Me To Be a Better Father
Cheers To The End of Survival Living
Feeling Guilty or Selfish About Your Time
The Walking Dad
My Life Began When You Were Born
Pee, Poo and Pride
The Pen of Destiny
Griffin House: How Becoming a Dad and Husband Has Changed My Music and Writing
My Wife Isn’t Who I Married
Kick to Kick with Old Stu
Do I Have Time for This?
The End of the Day
Are All Men Assholes?
Little League Lessons
Ups and Downs: The Lives of Siblings of Special-Needs Kids
Practising New Steps With the Ex-In-Laws
Why Don’t Dads Approve?
“They Made Fun Of Me…”
Grieving and Blogging: A Chat with Chris Martin, Just a Dad
“As a Dad, There are Many Things I Have No Idea About. Doing My Daughter’s Hair Isn’t One of Them.”
“She Sees Me As a Hero. It’s Time I Held Up My End of the Bargain.”
Is Love Enough?
How I Went From Lad to Dad In Just Three Hours
“Congrats, You’re a New Dad. Now Get Back to Work!”
Daddy-Daughter Movie Night
Kids Quitting: A Father’s Dilemma
Introducing Dads Group Inc.
A Baby Winter’s Night
Rock and Roll Dad
What Dads Can Learn From Pie
The Missing Piece Of The Jigsaw
The Trouble With Being a Stepmother
Stepping Up
One Widowed Parent, One Time Machine
My Dad: A Man of Magical Mysteries
Single Dads On the Rise, But Challenges Persist
“Don’t You Miss Working?”
A Firm Grip
Holding On
Q&A with Jason Osmond (a.k.a. @Jasonmarriedup)
How Do You Provide For Your Family?
Mercury At Full Stretch
Four Things My Daughter Says At Mealtime
Preaching Papas’ Plight with Mike Cruse
Are We Too Connected?
From One Father(‘s Day) To The Next
Why Father’s Day is more important than Mother’s Day
You’re Amazing (Even If I’m Not Meant to Say It!)
A Day In the Life of a Working Dad
Remembering Dad and Poppy
The Clash of Freedom and Guilt
Get To Know Sonny and Rudy’s Dad – Hamish Blake
A Follow-Up to ‘101 Experiences I Want My Daughter To Have’
Dispelling the ‘Mr. Mom’ Myth
Dating As a 40-Year-Old Single Parent
Craig Freeman, The Rambling Dad
Doing a U-turn On The Childless
Getting Paid To Dad
My Failure: A Son In Therapy
Fortunate Child: Having A Good Father
Letting Go… Or Being Let Go?
2 O’Clock And All Was Well
Post-It Notes and Parental Pitfalls: Q&A with Chris Illuminati
When The Wheels Come Off
I Thought I Was Emotionally Connected, How Wrong I Was
Blank Tapes, Beers and The Boss
My Postnatal Depression Battle
David Millard, Creator, Tales of Two Children
The Good, The Dad and The Ugly
Likeness and Love: A Mother’s Day Tribute
It Takes a (Virtual) Village
Jason Thompson: Artist, Dad
Brad Blanks: NYC On-Air Personality, Dad of Three
The Dad Who Gets Paid to Drink and Write About Beer
Anxiety: More Powerful Than a Locomotive
How My Son Became My Dad Coach
Mark Nethercote: Author, Paediatrician, (Belated) Dad
Three Wise Women
Profile: Brad Nagle, Dear Agony Dad
Light and Shade: My Daughter’s First Painting Of Me
Dave Butters: Businessman, Man’s Man, Dad
Third Time’s a Charm
The Decade Gap
Why Dads With Girls Should be Happier… Or Should They?
“I Just Want to Be The Best Dad I Can Be…”
“You’re Going to Nanna’s, B!tch!”
Red Dinosaur
No Jacket Required
Mirrored in the Past, Present and Future
Hospital Green
Parenting & (Anti) Social Media
Important Men’s Business
Dad Life
Articles
Nep Thach talks about balancing fatherhood, making videos with his baby boy and running a digital marketing business.
A deeply personal post from a bloke trying to leave the past behind to become a better dad to his young daughter.
Is love enough in a long-term relationship? Not by a long shot, writes Mike ‘Papa Does Preach’ Cruse.
Adam T Hourlution has a young daughter whom he would do anything for. So what makes him different from you? Read on to find out!
While PwC employee Jack Bell’s recent article showed parental leave for dads is improving in Australia, Jeff Wood explains there’s much to be done in his native Canada.
Regular movie nights with his daughter are the antithesis of time spent with his late father, writes Tom Gilchrist.
For Californian dad Eric Miller, applying Malcolm Gladwell’s ‘10,000-hour rule’ – the suggested time required to master something – to his daughter’s many endeavours has proven an impossible task.
The Dad Website chews the fat with fellow Melburnians and dad-advocates, Dads Group Inc.
A storm in remote northwestern America. A scared wife ready to give birth at 32 weeks. A hazardous light-plane journey over the mountains to the nearest hospital. In a must-read long-form piece, Bill Donavan, father to two adult sons and founder of Yoee Baby, vividly recalls his firstborn’s turbulent labour.