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The Martyr Myth (By my wife, Julie)

The Martyr Myth (By my wife, Julie) Here’s a guest blog by my wife. As we dive into another year of the hard yards of whole-hearted parenting, she reminds moms especially to look after themselves… Martyr, Mother. Mother, Martyr. Pot-tay-toes, Pot-ah-toes right? I don’t know about you, but I always thought these two came…

Tag: mothers

First Time Moms: What I Wish I Knew (By My Wife, Julie)

First Time Moms: What I Wish I Knew (By My Wife, Julie) As we approach our 16th anniversary, I marvel once again at the remarkable woman I married (and co-parent with). Here she writes for first time moms… If you’re about to become a mother for the first time, you’re in for one of the…

Tag: first-time-mom, mothers

Stupid Stuff Couples Argue About

In this post I let co-blogger, bed-sharer, super-babe, mega-talented writer and mother-of-my-kids Julie Williams take me down good and proper. Julie is a fantastic spouse – if the main job of a spouse is to bring your partner down to earth, while loving him still. Over to Julie… What we argue about most…

Tag: humour

The Gift of Less: Minimalism and Mini-me’s

My wife and guest-blogger, Julie starts off the Dad Dude blog in 2019 with some potent ideas about the gift of less. Before I hand over, if you’re wondering about this pic, that’s one of our twins, Charlie, asleep amidst the chaos a year ago. Enter Julie… THE GIFT OF LESS I remember when I…

Tag: minimalism

Seeds and Swords: The Power of Our Words to Our Kids

This blog about the power of a parent’s words is the third post by guest-blogger, Julie Williams, who is a professional wordsmith and the mother of my kids. We live in a world awash with words. They gush from our mouths and spill over our fingertips onto our keyboards. They seep into our ears and…

Tag: inner-voice, power-of-words

Two dads walk in their wife’s shoes and discover the awesomeness that is a mom

Mother’s Day is upon us. And I can think of no better way for us dads to honour moms than to try walk in their shoes, and living to tell the tale. This year my wife was recovering from an operation. For 3 weeks, I tried to fill the mom-void which included reading and skillfully…

Tag: humour, mothers

My girls, the Moose and the Bear

Parenting little lives is so hard it can make you cry. Unless it’s someone else we’re talking about – then we can laugh. Here’s a second guest blog by my friend, whiskey expert, poker player, marine lawyer, wanna-be-surfer, stand-up comic, co-pastor of a faith community and progenitor of 3 girls – the one and only…

Tag: humour

Oh dear, surfs up!

Happy New Years. For many it’s time to shed some kilos. Take heart, my buddy Grant Clark writes this humorous guest blog for us on the subject. Just so you know, I don’t surf with him… “It is a well-established fact that Exercise and I are not particularly good friends. I would say that…

Tag: exercise, humour, surfing

Why we are staying – for the kids

(By guest blogger and my wife, Julie Williams) There’s a weird thing happening in SA. Well, to be fair, there’s a lot of weird sh@# going down. But I’d like to focus in on the niche weirdness of white, upper-class parents in SA at this point in time. And their seemingly unchecked yet (in my…

Tag: south-africa

The Martyr Myth (By my wife, Julie)

First Time Moms: What I Wish I Knew (By My Wife, Julie)

Stupid Stuff Couples Argue About

The Gift of Less: Minimalism and Mini-me’s

Seeds and Swords: The Power of Our Words to Our Kids

Two dads walk in their wife’s shoes and discover the awesomeness that is a mom

My girls, the Moose and the Bear

Oh dear, surfs up!

Why we are staying – for the kids

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