The Daily Dad Blog

Barely in the country from our family holiday in Germany, and not really fully unpacked in our Hamilton condo, the kids continue ...

We're  on the 6.46 am  train from Salzburg to Munich, somewhere near the German-Austrian border, with Bavarian countryside and snowy Alps ...

The best time to talk to your nine-year-old boy about women’s plumbing and these sorts of sexually delicate territories is ...

He’s a father I’ve known for some years, a lawyer, a father of two boys and two girls. On his way ...

The horrible news of the attack at Garissa University College in neighbouring Kenya came shortly after we, as a family, ...

She was Swiss and she stood at the front door this morning and told me how envious she was of ...

Some days I wish I was more musical, at least as musical as the rest of the family. I think the dog wishes ...

Eliana is the baby that shouldn’t be in this world. The latest is that this little Ugandan girl, about five ...

It was last evening. “Dad,” she said. “Can I hold the leash?” “No.” “Please,” she said. “No.” Zack, our big-as-a ...

“Daddy, it’s The Giver!” Liz said when we found the DVD for a thousand shillings, about 40 Canadian cents, at ...

Next time we have Nutella -- a food item I allow my children to eat every 6th Monday of the ...

When you're an 11-year-old and a boy in your class asks you to go out and it's the day before ...

We had an interesting dinner guest recently. The kids' eyes buggered out when he told his story, how he ran ...

It’s a beautiful morning in Africa, not just because the sun is rising and the birds are singing and the ...

This is from Peter, a Ugandan music teacher explaining one of his first interactions with his future bride-to-be. These two ...