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Oh Oh, Baby Boy! A Celebration Of Engaged Fathers
This is the text of an interview I did with my wife, Janine Macbeth, about her upcoming children’s book, Oh Oh, Baby Boy! Q: What is Oh Oh, Baby Boy!? A: Oh Oh, Baby Boy! is a full color children’s book that celebrates Engaged Fathers and the boys they once were. I’m fundraising on Kickstarter, a crowd fundraising site, to get the book printed. I have until October 16th to raise pledge funds, or no…
Dad’s Most Important Relationship (It’s Not What You Think It Is)
Fatherhood is an initiation into life-altering relationship. No matter how much parents and grandparents warn us about the changes to come, we don’t truly understand the impact of becoming a dad until it happens. It’s as if we’re looking up at the rope hoisting a grand piano as it fails thinking, “I wonder if that’s going to hurt?” The most important relationship for a new dad, however, isn’t the one with our child. It isn’t…
Finding My Own Definition Of Manhood
The struggle to find my own definition of manhood took time and reflection. Much of that introspective thinking came from how I grew up and my life now. Many times in those confusing years as a teen and through my early adult life I can remember looking in the mirror, staring intently into my own eyes and asking myself, ‘who am I?’ Becoming a husband and then a father has brought me closer to finding…
I Do….And I Don’t…(Contemporary Marriage)
Do I consider myself to be part of a nontraditional family? I would have to say no, but only after I can establish which tradition we’re following. Recently, while visiting my mother, I encountered an old family friend, one that has been around long enough to feel entitled to protective feelings and perhaps even “I just want the best for you” judgment. It was his first time seeing T-Words in action, and I couldn’t erase…
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