by David Tensen | 27 Mar, 2023 | Fathering, Podcast
YOUTUBE VERSION . /. PODCAST VERSION In this episode, I delve the complexities and challenges of parenting. Beginning with looking at what raising ‘successful kids’ might actually mean, I highlight the importance of intentional parenting and the difficult... 
by David Tensen | 13 Sep, 2022 | All, Fathering, parenting
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... 
by David Tensen | 31 Aug, 2019 | All, Fathering, masculinity
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... 
by David Tensen | 23 Apr, 2019 | All, Australia, Children, Fathering
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... 
by David Tensen | 15 Jan, 2019 | All, family, Fathering, parenting
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...