His wife’s health scare led rookie dad Trevor Ludlow to conclude that resilience isn’t something you learn, but rather something you forget.
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
There aren’t any classes that teach you how to be a dad, just lots of learning as you go. Anthony Peyton shares his discovery that sometimes some of the best lessons are taught to us by our kids.
We chat with Mark Nethercote – whose memoir on love, loss and the miracle of IVF, ‘A Time for Grace’, is released today – about the book’s back story and fatherhood.
To celebrate ‘International Women’s Day’, Fergus Donaldson pays tribute to three special women in his life.
We chat with Brad Nagle, a.k.a. Dear Agony Dad, about blogging, deprioritising music and playing dad to two boys.
What to do when your baby daughter, who’s been saying ‘dad’ for some time, finally says ‘mum’… and mum’s not there?
It’s a key part of the IVF process: producing an on-demand semen sample. As author, paediatrician and dad-of-two Mark Nethercote writes, it’s not as easy as it sounds.
What does your kindergarten-aged child’s first painting of you, say about you?
The germ that is anxiety can be overwhelming, but it’s no match for a 20-month-old in full flight.
Terry Cornick is a father of one and founder of the grassroots mental health support network Mr Perfect. In this profile, Terry opens up about the story behind the name ‘Mr Perfect’.