Hands down my greatest challenge as a divorced dad was remaining a deeply engaged father in my children’s lives with a co parent who was no longer my partner, whose feelings towards me were less than hospitable and whose ideas about parenting came from a different manual than mine. [Read more]
Telling my children that their mom and I were getting divorced was probably the hardest conversation I have ever had. My son Luke was 11 at the time and my daughter Blythe 8. My heart broke as I looked into their sad, shocked eyes. It took everything I had to [Read more]
Craig talks about how parenthood is a journey towards being and becoming a whole man or woman as you raise your boys and your girls to become whole men and women.
Radio 2000 parenting corner with Craig.
Our future lies in the hands of our children and in our hands lies the future of our children. It sounds like a riddle but it’s really quite simple; how well we raise the world’s children will determine the quality of our future on earth. The most important contribution any [Read more]
Nothing is more important for the future of our planet than how well men and women raise their children. Parents are given the unbelievable privilege of holding the vulnerable, malleable and utterly impressionable life of their child in their hands. In a parent’s hands lies literally the power of life [Read more]
It may not be as easy to define masculinity as what it used to be but anyone who has raised a son and a daughter will know that there are some not so subtle differences between the sexes. John Eldridge, author of Wild at Heart identifies three needs at [Read more]
The Espresso show chats to Craig and his son Luke about the importance of getting your kids to read.Research conducted recently by the Open Book Festival showed that boys are reading significantly less than girls, largely due to the stereotype that reading isn’t cool and because they don’t [Read more]