Best and Worst of Father’s Day This Year

Father’s day is always in June and always after the kids are out of school, like an after thought. And maybe it was really just a marketing ploy to sell more Craftsman tools and ties and cologne. I’m not a big fan of any of those things. Oh well…

But father’s day is important to me. My role as DAD is the biggest challenge and joy of my life. And I thought I’d roll up some of my past Father’s day posts and some of the appreciations as well. I’m going to stay on the happy/positive side of the entire discussion. And wish you all happy father’s days, even if you’re moms or kids. Someday my son will celebrate father’s day, and if I’m lucky I’ll get to live to see that.

• A Son’s Sadness on Father’s Day – 2013
• This Father’s Day Is Better Than the Rest – 2012
• Missing My Dad and Becoming a Better Dad on Father’s Day – 2011
• Team Dad, “Even When We Can No Longer Be Together” – 2010

And a few of the rest:

• Fathers Teach Their Daughters What Honest Love Looks Like
• Single Parenting Magic – The SPO Has Given a Happy Moment
• Cherry PopTarts and Love (fathers & daughters in divorce)
• The Good Side of Divorce – Making Things Go Easier
• Just Being Dad Is Enough: A Hot Summer and a Ghost Horse
• Ferris Bueller Gets a Divorce – My Dad’s Divorce Blog – The Movie
• perhaps you were a cat from another country , a poem

And from buzzfeed

• Things Dads Do That You Don’t See In Popular Culture – Buzzfeed

Sincerely,

The Off Parent

Resources:

• The Divorce Library (reading list)
• Songs of Divorce (free listening library – youtube sourced songs)
• Laugh It Off (building a resource library of funny videos and other diversions)
• Facebook (follow us on Facebook and keep up with all the conversations)
• The 5 Love Languages  (a book on love styles by Gary Chapman)