Posts tagged as:

children

Wednesday Wisdom: The Greatest Gift

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: he believed in me.
- Jim Valvano
I have always been tenaciously goal-oriented. In grade school, I made the honor roll each quarter, I was the first in my family to graduate from college, and I have achieved relative success in my career. My tenacity [...]

16 comments Read the full article →

12 Things That Stress Out Dads

Being a dad is hard work and stressful. According to a Yankelovich Health & Wellness study, dads are most stressed out by the following twelve items:

Planning one’s financial future
Job/Career
Keeping family safe
Worrying about children’s success
Health-care costs
Aggressive drivers
Influence of peers on children
Balancing work and family
Quality of your child’s diet
Your state of health
Housework
Running errands

While I agree with [...]

14 comments Read the full article →

Stay At Home Dads Are Going to Hell

In my interaction with some dad bloggers, I discovered a video clip from Pastor John Hagee. He contends that all stay at home dads are bums and are going to hell.
But it seems as if Pastor Hagee in not alone in this belief. Pastor Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church has also been quite vocal [...]

19 comments Read the full article →

Wednesday Wisdom – Obey

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord - Colossians 3:20
One of the Sunday school teachers at my church gave her students pennies as part of the assignment. She quickly realized that pennies and young children don’t mix. The kids were sticking them in their mouths, flipping them in the air, and snatching [...]

12 comments Read the full article →

Wednesday Wisdom: The Cure to Selfishness

Today’s installment of Wednesday Wisdom comes from President Obama’s inaugural speech. There were several key passages to draw from, but I decided to focus on the following quote:
…it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon which this nation relies. It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees [...]

4 comments Read the full article →

Resolutions To Be A Better Dad in 2009

A new year is upon us and now is the time for making those New Year’s resolutions. As I was writing my 2009 resolutions, I took a few minutes to reflect on how well I did with my 2008 goals:

I will go to the gym 3 times per week – I accomplished this goal [...]

8 comments Read the full article →

Wednesday Wisdom – How to Live

Charles Barkley famously said, “I am not a role model.” The all-star power forward never intended for people to look up to him or follow in his footsteps. All he wanted to do was play basketball. As fathers, we cannot shirk the responsibility of being role models to our children. Like it or not, your [...]

5 comments Read the full article →

Wednesday Wisdom – Strong Children

I am starting a new feature on Mocha Dad called Wednesday Wisdom. Each Wednesday, I will post some sage advice about fatherhood in the form of quotes, links, and videos. If you have some wisdom that you’d like to share, please send it to me via e-mail.
The first installment on Wednesday Wisdom is a quote [...]

6 comments Read the full article →

World AIDS Day 2008

Today is World AIDS Day, a day when individuals and organizations from around the world come together to bring attention to the global AIDS epidemic.
Eradicating AIDS is something that I am passionate about because African Americans are disproportionately affected by this deadly disease. The AIDS epidemic among African Americans in some parts of the United [...]

6 comments Read the full article →

The Joy of Cooking

One day at work, while I was enjoying my lunch of leftover crawfish etouffee, my co-worker walked by and said, “That smells good. Your wife must be a good cook.”
“Actually,” I said, “I cooked this.”
Looking at me dumbfounded, he stood silent for about a minute, and then said, “If you’re going to cook, why did [...]

9 comments Read the full article →

Affair Proof Your Marriage

Being married with kids is tough. The associated work and stress can cause couples to become emotionally disconnected. When that happens, it becomes easier for husbands and wives to fall into the affair trap. The most recent studies on marriage have discovered that 30% of men and 20% of women have been unfaithful. These statistics [...]

2 comments Read the full article →

Education is the Key to Ending the Cycle of Poverty

I grew up poor. That fact became quite obvious to me when I started attending gifted schools in the wealthier areas of town. While all of the other kids had the latest fashions and the newest Atari video game systems, I had to settle for the clothes and toys that my mother could afford.
My mother [...]

1 comment Read the full article →

Hurricane Ike: The Aftermath

Things are still crazy in Houston. Most of the city is still without power and many of the streets are impassable. Thanks to a cold front that arrived Sunday, temperatures have been in the 70s, so people have not had to suffer blistering heat.
Mayor Bill White ordered a week-long curfew from 9 p.m. to 6 [...]

1 comment Read the full article →

How I Earned a Stainless Steel Coffee Mug

My wife and I celebrated our 11th wedding anniversary over the weekend. The 11th anniversary is one of those awkward years that don’t end in zero or five so there isn’t a lot of guidance on how to celebrate. To give you an idea of how benign this anniversary is, the traditional wedding gift for [...]

0 comments Read the full article →

16 Stunning Fatherhood Facts

In my quest to live a healthier lifestyle, I have become a loyal subscriber to Men’s Health Magazine. It has become my health and fitness bible. In addition to exercise and diet tips, the magazine also has great articles on manhood. In the June 2008 issue, I encountered several fatherhood fact I would like to [...]