Category: Fatherhood

New Peanut Butter Cheerios Commercial: #HowToDad

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Why a commercial? All of this is common knowledge isn’t it?

I like the fact that it’s the right mix of fun and responsible, which the vast majority of fathers are anyway. After years of ads like THIS and reports of how negatively men are portrayed in advertisements over the years, we finally have images of a father who is actually cool, funny, interesting, loving, caring, and runs his home. I’ve had it with the nonsense and I’m glad the fight is starting to pay off. Check this out:

“Fatherhood is fantastic, fantastic. Whatever is second best is a distant second.”

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“The advice I would give is ‘you can’t get it back.’ The day you didn’t go to the game, you can’t get that back. You didn’t go. The hotel room that goes unsold will never be sold. The day you didn’t spend, you didn’t spend. That is a big regret of mine; that I didn’t do more.”

“It’s the first time in your life,” he shares. “You don’t have to love your wife–that’s why there is divorce. You don’t divorce your children. There are things about your children that will annoy you, but the love is spectacular.”

“Yesterday, my son pitched three scoreless innings for Notre Dame’s scrimmage game. I was sitting in the stands at the beautiful field at Notre Dame. He was pitching and standing on the mound with that regal look…I just looked at him and could almost cry. I flashed back to the day he was born and the day I took him to his first game. And there he is, standing with that regal look. He struck out a guy…that jolt just goes through your heart. He asked me, ‘Do you root for me more than you root for the Dodgers?’ and I said, ‘Of course!’”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOKhKP2tKw4

Prison Math

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An excerpt from this article: http://reason.com/archives/2011/06/08/prison-math America’s enormously high incarceration rate is a relatively recent phenomenon. According to a 2010 report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), U.S. incarceration rates between 1880 and 1970 ranged from about 100…

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Why fathers still matter

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An excerpt from THIS article: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-06-25/opinion/ct-oped-fathers-0625-20140625_1_father-single-moms-terry-crews Take the sentence “there are some things only a mother can provide.” Does anyone disagree with that? You say “nurturing,” everyone nods. You say “unconditional love,” everyone nods. But try saying that sentence about a…

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Daughters

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This is a video I made for my daughter. I played it at her birthday party that she decided to have at my place. It was a truly special day for me. Three reasons why: 1) She has never asked…

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Judge Orders Deployed US Sailor To Attend Custody Hearing Or Lose Daughter, Face Arrest

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Why would anyone be surprised by this?

This is a daily occurrence in mother court, I mean “family court.” I’m just happy this HORRIBLE place is being exposed on national TV.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyRr3q1vp8A

A sailor serving underseas on a submarine is locked in a fight a world away to keep custody of his 6-year-old girl.

Navy submariner Matthew Hindes is stationed on a submarine in the Pacific. But he’s been ordered to appear in a Michigan courtroom Monday in a custody battle with his ex-wife Angela involving their daughter, Kaylee.

Hindes was given permanent custody of Kaylee in 2010, after she was reportedly removed from Angela’s home by child protective services. Kaylee has been living with Hindes’ wife Benita-Lynn — her step-mother — in Washington state while Hindes is deployed aboard a nuclear submarine in the Pacific Ocean.

Despite Hindes’ assignment, a judge has ordered Hindes to appear in court or face contempt.

Hindes’ lawyers argue he should be protected by the Service members Civil Relief Act, which states courts in custody cases may “grant a stay of proceedings for a minimum period of 90 days” to defendants serving their country.

The judge hearing the case, circuit court judge Margaret Noe, disagreed, adding, “If the child is not in the care and custody of the father, the child should be in the care and custody of the mother.”

Modern feminism has got it wrong about men

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Today’s feminism teaches women to see themselves as victims and men as perverts, bullies and misogynists, says Natasha Devon An excerpt from this article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/10831043/Modern-feminism-has-got-it-wrong-about-men.html Today’s feminism teaches women to see themselves as victims and men as perverts, bullies and…

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Dads in the Media

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This video was created in 2007 by the NYS OTDA’s Fatherhood Initiative and its Director Kenneth Braswell and St. John’s professor Dr. Janice Kelly. Dr. Eric Dyson helps in addressing the issue of Responsible Fatherhood and its historical depiction via television.