Recommended reading for dads with daughters

I found this book shortly after my daughter was born, nearly three years ago now. I read it the following summer on vacation and it was a revelation.Strong Fathers, Strong Daughtersis an amazing book, and one that is required reading for any father who has a daughter, no matter what age. If your daughter is older and something in your relationship is amiss, this book may help enlighten you to the issue and work through the problem. If your daughter is young, this book will give you a blueprint for your relationship moving forward. Either way, it is a book you must have.[...]

Gentlemen: If you are getting ready to travel, I encourage you to use a new agency Fosters Travel. The agency was developed by a friend of mine. He and his wife just found out that their youngest son has a terminal disease and that while they can prolong his life into his 20s, there is no [...]

I have been thinking about adoption recently and wanted to see what Dads out there think about the topic. Please take a moment to fill out the poll. Go to the poll here.

Cross-posted at To Dust You Shall Return In this year for priests, we remember the men who give of themselves completely to build up the Body of Christ and to lead us to our Head Who is Christ. But priests are human too, and they struggle. Some struggle mightily. Two of my classmates are struggling. [...]

Gentlemen, please take a moment and vote for the Hadley family’s research efforts. The film “Extraordinary Measures” is promoting a contest and will donate $10,000 to fund research for the winner of the contest. You can vote here. (Just click on the link and click “Continue.”) The family’s inspirational video is here: Hadley Hope

And so the long Sanford saga has ended in divorce. Tiger’s accident was not just an innocent mishap. There was a time when I thought MarkSanford was a bright light of the conservative movement. There was a time when I thought Tiger was “great” beyond the world of golf. But both have failed. The tragedy [...]

. . . but can you be a religious sister? This disturbing story of Sr. Donna Quinn, O.P., highlights for me one small insight of a book I read this week. Catholic Matters by Fr. Richard John Neuhaus (a favorite of mine) notes the discord and confusion that plagues our modern age. This confusion reaches even to Dominican [...]

In the United States, homeschooling families generally are able to educate their children without many restrictions. There have been recent cases where judges have ordered children into public schools (see here and here), but these cases are the exception and not the rule. Or are they? Policy makers in the United States seem to be struggling over [...]

One of my favorite prayers is this Prayer to St. Joseph. In that prayer are the words: “obtain for me the grace . . . to work, above all, with purity of intention and unselfishness, having unceasingly before my eyes death and the account I shall have to render of time lost, talents unused, good not [...]

Here’s a great new initiative from the Knights of Columbus called Fathers for Good. While I am a “lapsed” Knight (meaning only that I’ve moved since the last time I attended and have not found a new council and paid new dues), I try to keep up on the programs the Knights put out. This [...]