You can say goodbye to the hostilities and grudges of the past that fester inside you, and keep you from surrendering to all that is life-affirming and new. You can embrace lightness and freedom. You can begin again. And what better time to start than now? Begin by dimming the lights or lighting a candle. Sit in a favorite spot or get cozy in your chair, and take a few deep breaths. Let us begin.
Listen to the meditation.
How Well Am I Doing as My Daughter’s Father?
Here is a short Dads & Daughters self-assessment quiz. It’s a quick way to understand how well you’re doing as your daughter’s father. Answer honestly and add up your score before peeking at the scoring key. If your daughter isn’t school-aged, skip the 5 school-related items and subtract 15 points from the scoring key.
Sample question:
1. I can name her 3 best friends: Often - Sometimes - Hardly Ever
To take the quiz go HERE.
About DADs:
Father Resources
Dads & Daughters improves the lives of fathers, daughters, and their families with outstanding educational resources supporting fathers’ involvement in girls’ lives and advocacy for girls’ well-being.
DADs’ tools and resources help develop supportive and healthy father-daughter relationships. Strong, positive relationships between daughters and their fathers and stepfathers helps girls increase their self esteem, gives them greater opportunities for self-fulfillment, delays the onset of puberty, and provides many other benefits—including improving the father’s health.
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Daughters®: For Parents of Girls
Making the world safe and fair for our daughters by providing parents and professionals with the best information about girls’ needs and development. This unique bi-monthly print publication delivers effective parenting and communication techniques tailored specifically for parents of girls in all stages of adolescence (ages 8-16). An award-winning, highly-targeted, all-in-one-place parenting resource, Daughters blends the expertise of professionals with the ideas and wisdom of experienced parents–digested, filtered, and compiled in a compact, easy-to-read, take-it-anywhere reference.
See Jane
Gender equity has progressed in many ways, but male characters still dominate television, movies, and other media for young children. Since women and girls make up half of the human race, the presence of a wide variety of female characters in our children’s earliest media is essential for both girls’ and boys’ development.
See Jane seeks to engage professionals and parents in a call to dramatically increase the percentages of female characters — and to reduce gender stereotyping — in media made for children 11 and under. See Jane founder, Academy Award winner Geena Davis, says, “By making it common for our youngest children to see everywhere a balance of active and complex male and female characters, girls and boys will grow up to empathize with and care more about each others’ stories.”
From Reality TV World:
“Kelly Clarkson’s people are pissed,” a source from NRG Studio said, adding that they pressured NRG to take action against YouTube to remove the clip of the vandalism. The clip was banned from YouTube but not until more than 200,000 people had already viewed it.
Here is the new version of the video, called “At The Studio — Kelly Parts,” without Zane. (I had to make sure you all saw it before it’s removed again.)
From Yahoo News:
U.S. growers produce nearly $35 billion worth of marijuana annually, making the illegal drug the country’s largest cash crop, bigger than corn and wheat combined, an advocate of medical marijuana use said in a study released on Monday.
The report, conducted by Jon Gettman, a public policy analyst and former head of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, also concluded that five U.S. states produce more than $1 billion worth of marijuana apiece: California, Tennessee, Kentucky, Hawaii and Washington…
“Marijuana has become a pervasive and ineradicable part of the economy of the United States,” he said. “The contribution of this market to the nation’s gross domestic product is overlooked in the debate over effective control.”
“Like all profitable agricultural crops marijuana adds resources and value to the economy,” he added. “The focus of public policy should be how to effectively control this market through regulation and taxation in order to achieve immediate and realistic goals, such as reducing teenage access.”
From a single dad in the Yahoo Single-Parents- group, about a day in church with his daughter:
When she was five, I dressed her up in her Sunday best and headed off to Mass. This is the really long Mass a week before Easter. Of course she wouldn’t sit still through the long Mass and I kept having to whisper and sign to her to be still.
Eventually she had enough and when I whispered her to be quiet, she yelled “NO!? at the top of her voice. Unfortunately this also coincided with the priest asking “Do you renounce the devil and all his works??
Everyone turned to see the devil child and the priest stared down from the pulpit and yelled back “YES!?
I had to pick up my devil child and take the walk of shame down the aisle and out of the church. It took me a couple of weeks to pluck up the courage to return to that church.
Being a single dad is interesting at times.
I came across the photo above of a beautiful snow sculpture, and I was fascinated. Turns out it’s called Whirled White Web and it was created by a Minnesota team for the 2003 International Snow Sculpture Championship in Colorado. The USA team placed second.
Here are the first and second place winners of the 2006 contest:
The next competition is January 23 to February 4 in Breckenridge Colorado.
You can see a video of how these snow sculptures are made here:
All this snow got me thinking about snowballs. Did you know you can buy a Sno-Baller?
I learned there are dogs named Snowball.
Snowball is also the name of an apparently alien cat.
It’s the name of a bunny.
And it’s the name of a cat who loves bunnies.
I hope you enjoy this music video of teens in a snowball fight.
Here’s a snowball fight game for you to play.
 Snowfight Destroy all the snowmen and avoid the other kids. |
You can pick up this book on snowball launchers.
You can even get the kids some books on snowballs.
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