While I enjoy a good BBQ, what I truly want for Father's Day is for kids everywhere to initiate honest family conversations about the most pressing issue of their lives: climate change. In my house, we don't call it climate change, we call it what we are trying to avoid: climate disaster. For this Gen... Continue Reading →
Providers, protectors, patriarchs—these dad archetypes have set some of our expectations for fathers, but such a notion of fatherhood hasn’t kept up with the times. As we lurch toward a more just society, the role of fathers needs to fundamentally shift. Lately, it seems like few of the dads who have supposedly exemplified fatherhood could... Continue Reading →
As Fathers, We Must Commit to Dismantling the Patriarchy
there comes a point in a man’s or woman’s life…
"Some women/men draw a circle around themselves and protect those who are in it: Wife and children. Some women/men draw a bigger circle around themselves and protect more: Mother, uncles, aunts, grandchildren. Some women/men draw a big, big circle around themselves and protect many, many more. There comes a point in a woman's/man's life when... Continue Reading →
suffering for them…
“A father acts on behalf of his children by working, providing, intervening, struggling, and suffering for them. In so doing, he really stands in their place. He is not an isolated individual, but incorporates the selves of several people in his own self. Every attempt to live as if he were alone is a denial... Continue Reading →
unable to make emotional connections…
“Usually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they choose to be intimate with are frozen in time, unable to allow themselves to love for fear that the loved one will abandon them. If the first woman they passionately loved, the mother, was not true to her bond of love,... Continue Reading →
man must find out for himself…
“He had learned some of the things that every man must find out for himself, and he had found out about them as one has to find out--through error and through trial, through fantasy and illusion, through falsehood and his own damn foolishness, through being mistaken and wrong and an idiot and egotistical and aspiring... Continue Reading →
snatched the reins…
“The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mothers, and sisters watch the other unreasoning animal in those moments when he has snatched the reins out of their hands, and is not to be spoken to! . It is best to let... Continue Reading →
life’s greatest mysteries…
“One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world.” - Proverb quotes (Downloaded from Thinkexist)
capacity to endure…
“Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.” - John Finley
fine edge of their altruism…
"Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism." - Katherine Fullerton Gerould
change man…
If you want to change the world you must change man. If you want to change man you must make him want to change. poet laureate of Denmark, Dame Esther Gress
empowerment & inner transformation... 