Home Sweet Home

Traditionally a man is regarded to be the bread earner or provider of the family. But his role and responsibility does not end with it. The story of most urban homes is that both wife and husband are working to give a sound life and future to their children. A mother is seen as a caregiver to her children, but a child for his/her holistic development growth the participation of the father is equally necessary. It is need a beautiful experience for parents to see their children grow in front of Read more [...]

I am thankful for…Great Fathers When I was thinking about what a great dad means to me, some thoughts that came to my mind were: a strong leader, caring, unconditionally loving, protector and provider. I suppose how we define a great father depends largely upon our own experience. I am thankful to have had a father who did the best he knew to do in raising us. He never had a chance to know his own father who had passed away when he was around 2 years old. So he didn’t have any real role model Read more [...]

In May of 1995, I suddenly lost my first wife and mother of my two daughters, Jody to a very rare illness called a pheochromacytoma. All of this transpired within 24 hours. It felt like a horrible dream. I visualized my girls and I doing things together and I saw them thriving. Those were my daily images, only positive outcomes. I found comfort in books like Kubler Ross’s "On Death and Dying," Hope Edelman’s "Motherless Daughter’s" & Cosby’s "Fatherhood." Read more [...]

Being a father is not necessarily the “be all” and “end all” of the male existence as compared to what motherhood is for many women. The biggest difference is probably in the biology. Whereas women are biologically wired to be a mother, fatherhood may be more of an incidental or sometimes even an accidental occurrence. It’s kind of hard to describe, but though men are needed in order to procreate, their role, once the creation part is done, has historically, and yes, biologically been quite different Read more [...]

At a movie theater, a little girl had difficulty seeing the movie screen. She pointed to the man in front of her and whispered, “Mommy, I can’t see through that man.” A nine-year-old boy asked his father a geography question while the room was full of a group of PTA parents. The father was embarrassed because he could not answer the question. No one knew that this incident shut down that dad, and the window through which his children view the world was closed. an your children see through you? Read more [...]

A growing phenomenon in modern society is that of the single-parent family. Whether the parents made a conscious decision never to have a permanent relationship or whether they got divorced, more and more children are being brought up by one parent. In many cases, the non-custodial parent recognizes his or her responsibility to their children, and they continue to support their children financially until the age of eighteen. But many of these non-custodial parents take no financial responsibility Read more [...]