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12/20/02 - A Dad's Guide
to New Years Resolutions 12/06/02 - Mind Your
Manners! 11/21/02 - Giving the
Gift of Self to Your Dad at Christmas 11/14/02 - Preparing
Your Kids for Company: Invasion of the Houseguests 11/01/02 - Mixed Blessings:
Celebrating The Holidays in an Interfaith Family 10/15/02 - Keeping the
Kids Safe This Halloween 10/11/02 - The Daddy
Award Losers: How the New TV Shows Portray Fathers 09/27/02 - The Daddy
Award Winners: How the New TV Shows Portray Fathers 09/13/02 - Family Night:
Simple and Powerful 08/30/02 - What Dads
Can Do to Make School Safer 08/16/02 - Talking About
September 11 on the Anniversary 08/01/02 - Homework Helping
Secrets 07/19/02 - Get the Gear
for Back to School 07/05/02 - Planning Successful
Family Reunions 06/20/02 - Summer Picnic
Fun: Starring Dad 06/13/02 - Protecting
Your Child from Sexual Abuse 06/06/02 - Give Dad the
Best Fathers Day Gift: You 06/01/02 - Storytelling
Made Easy
05/17/02 - When to Call
Your Baby's Doctor 05/06/02 - Teaching
Your Teens to Manage Money 04/30/02 - Pacing:
The Key to Comfortable Living and Working 04/23/02 - A Dad's
Guide to Getting the Most Out of Parent Teacher Conferences
Articles from 2002
Many more New Year's resolutions are made each year than are kept. Find out
how to set resolutions and goals that you will successfully achieve this year
as a father and as an individual.
Is the behavior of your children in social settings embarrassing to you? Find
out the best ways to teach them the whys and hows of well mannered and respectful
behavior.
Tired of the same old issue every year: what to get Dad for Christmas? Consider
some new twists on the idea of giving of yourself instead of giving your time
to the mall!
Many families will be entertaining houseguests this holiday season. Parents
often assume that their kids are OK with this arrangement, but they may not
be. What are the best ways to prepare your children for the visit of relatives
or guests for an evening, a week or longer?
What happens when two religious traditions square off in an interfaith home?
Whether the mom and dad are Jewish, Christian, Muslim, or of different groups
within a faith, or whether the holiday is Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or Ramadan,
there are many challenges to interfaith holiday traditions. Find out how families
successfully balance the holidays in interfaith families.
Sugar hyped kids, dark streets, and costumes can lead to trouble for kids at
Halloween. Check out these tips for trick or treaters, for kids going to parties
and for you at home or on the road.
Many national studies have challenged the television media portrayal of fathers,
especially in prime time sitcoms. Several shows in the Fall 2002 new season
have a father figure at their core. How do these new shows measure up in how
fathers are seen? This article talks about two shows that don't measure up.
Check out the new Fall 2002 Series programs that portray fathers in a positive
light and win the About Fatherhood Daddy Award!
Think it's tough to set aside one night a week for family togetherness? Make
a commitment to both quality and quantity time with a weekly family night!
Parents are more concerned now than ever about the safety of their children
on the way to and from school and while they are there. What can fathers do
to help reduce the risk of injury or harm to their kids?
Anticipating the upcoming one year retrospectives on the September 11 attacks,
fathers need to do some thinking and preparing to talk again with their children
about terrorism, homeland security and personal safety.
Take a quick tour of Internet resources for helping kids with homework, and
start building your Favorites for homework help. These resources include homework
helps for all ages of students from elementary through college, and have links
to free, paid and live sites on the Web.
Every Dad has his own back-to-school ritual -- from a one-stop trip to the mall
on the first day of school, to a raid of the office-supply cabinet at work.
Here's the dad's survival guide.
If you find yourself in a situation where you are the head honcho of this year's
reunion, don't despair. Think of the reunion planning task as running a marathon.
Stuck being the social director for your summer family picnic or reunion? Change
your attitude about making that event fun with some great ideas for games and
other activities.
With recent revelations about child sexual abuse among some clergy, many fathers
are seeking ways of protecting their children. Find answers to your questions
about teaching your children how to be safe from sexual abuse.
What every dad wants most for father's day is more time with his family. Here
are some time tested ways to give dad what he really wantsmore of you!
Children love and need stories. And any dad can construct a winning, tailor-made
tale using these basic building blocks.
Dads are often nervous about babies when they get sick. How to know when sick
is sick enough to involve the baby's pediatrician.
Teaching teens how to manage their money can be an almost overwhelming challenge,
especially when we aren't so great at it ourselves. Use these tips to teach
them to save, spend and use credit wisely.
At the end of a long week, do you have enough energy to do more than run the
remote? Explore these tips for managing the pace of your work and life, and
find more than exhaustion on Friday night.
Does the very idea of meeting with your child's teacher in a parent teacher
conference setting unnerve you? There are probably good reasons why. Learn how
to overcome PCT anxiety and to have a good experience helping your child succeed
at school.

