Entries Tagged as 'Co-parenting'

Was my father right?

Tomorrow is a special day here in Australia for us fathers. The first Sunday of every September here in OZ is Father’s Day where we all gather and watch our respective paternalisms pretend to be impressed with their 40th pair of socks. By the way, anybody know the reasoning to such poor present selection when buying for fathers? Why a post on fathering? Perhaps an inference by the 15 million commercials or perhaps when considering what colour socks the old man would like ;) Truthfully the urge to write stemmed from this quote below. A quote striking significant accord.

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.

My own flesh and blood is floating at an age of sub-3 so his realisations are yet to be formulated and limited to mimicry so the reason behind raising this abbreviated [Read more →]

My son and family dancing: The you tube experiment!

This clip is almost a year old and rather then attempt to explain how I’ll leave that for the techies out there (I will say that rather then attempt to code it myself as with the sidebars. The viper plug-in proved invaluable so large level of gratitude to the programmer there) besides after glancing over the past few posts it has become apparent when discussing topics that are not familiar terrain it shines with duncicity.

My son (must have picked up his dancing from his father) along with my niece (they’re the main stars of the clip) including grandma, sister & brother Music having a little dance.

Now the you tube test phase if working is completed. Enjoy (note: you may need to tilt your head to the side for most of the clip)!

Parenting patience learnt over time

freshhare.jpgHave the desire to open a parenting category so I guess it’s time to use one of them free articles…Being a parent is most definitely one of the most important patience tests. They say patience is a virtue, it is true – but this comment makes you think patience is a quality that only a few chosen ones have. In fact, patience is learnt over time even if some parents don’t do well on this chapter at first. But, with a little effort, any parent can learn to be patient and to amuse himself over some situations that not so long ago annoyed him.
Firstly, you have to learn to have patience with yourself. Do not blame yourself for everything [Read more →]

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