A couple of weeks ago, out of the blue, I had three podcast interviews within days. One in Australia, another in Canada, and finally in the US. Two of the interviews cover concepts of a book/manifesto I am drafting around ageing, maturity and something I call...
Before this Aussie guy in his mid-forties starts talking about menopause, it’s important for me to make the following clear. First, I write this with my wife’s blessing. Second, I acknowledge it is rare and perhaps dangerous (or brave, or stupid – can’t decide...
About the Book Not every kid enjoys dressing up, and not every parent or caregiver wants to argue or stress over costume preparations. This book was created so kids without costumes won’t feel ashamed, naughty, or left out during Book Week. ‘The Kid...
THERE IS NO FORMULA – only probability… As parents, it can be natural for us to rate our parenting success on the apparent success of our children. This week my eldest turns 18. She left school a year early to do TAFE and is in a much better emotional and...
Pop quiz: How many iconic Superheroes have a relationship with their parents? Or, let’s just say, their fathers? Most fathers are dead or absent, right? (Some, like Black Panther, have a mother that’s still alive.) What’s going on? Professor Jospeh...
The mature masculine: 1. Does parental intimacy well. 2. Creates life. Doesn’t destroy it. 3. Knows his Source, relationally. 4. Exposes darkness, inside and out. Of late, my heart has been stirred around the need in our nation for men to continually commit to a life...
When you’re a parent, it’s not uncommon for people who meet your kids and spend time with you to comment on them, in some way. Those comments vary as much as the people who are delivering them. We often laugh at how someone might be trying to pass a comment they think...
