by Dad Central | Mar 24, 2016 | Father Involvement, Infants, Single Dads |
by John Hoffman It’s not often that a 47-year-old guy, who wasn’t really planning on fatherhood, ends up as the full-time single parent of a four month-old baby. That’s what happened to George* (not his real name) last year. Right now he’s on parental leave, looking...
by Dad Central | Mar 1, 2016 | Dads |
by John Hoffman Let me tell you about my really bad day – as a dad, I mean. It took place some years ago when we were on holiday in New Brunswick. Our boys were 2, 6 and 9 at the time. That afternoon we’d stopped at Hopewell Cape to look at it’s...
by Dad Central | Feb 2, 2016 | Healthy Relationships, Involved Fathers, Moms |
by John Hoffman In my last post I started looking at conflict between parenting partners. This time I want to talk about what some experts call corrosive conflict. That’s the ongoing, unresolved conflict that poses the real danger to relationships. Corrosive conflict...
by Dad Central | Jan 15, 2016 | Dads |
by John Hoffman First the bad news. Conflict is inevitable; even in love relationships, if you didn’t already know (which you probably did). It makes sense that partners would have conflict. You spend a lot of time together. You have high expectations for each other....
by Dad Central | Dec 21, 2015 | Uncategorized |
by John Hoffman Not that I want to be a Grinch during the season of good cheer but… Here’s one of the less pleasant realities of being a parent of little kids. Sometimes the days that you really, really want to go well are the ones that really, really, really don’t go...
