I recently had the honour of being an invited guest to the launch of a new DVD put together by the University of Western Australia entitled ‘What kids really need from their dads’. This initiative is inspired by The Fathering Project www.thefatheringproject.org and explores fathering from both a research stand point and from everyday ‘ordinary’ people. One of the most interesting aspects of this project is the perspective of lung specialist, academic and father Dr Bruce Robinson. Sadly, as a lung specialist he regularly sees fathers who do not have long to live and therefore is in a position to find out some of their most profound and final thoughts. He states that fathers always say two things; one that they wished they had spent more time with their children and two, that the wish they had realised much earlier that work was not as important as it seemed. The great news is, most of us do not have to wait till we are dying to come to that realisation, we need to act now. There are many ideas raised by the video but all come back to one basic driver; spend time listening, loving and just being around your kids. Both you and they will be grateful you did.
Tags: fathering, Time
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August 18th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Your blog is interesting!
Keep up the good work!