Surviving (and Thriving) Post-Divorce Dating
Your divorce is over. You’ve taken time to digest and decompress your situation. You want to return to socializing. You want to date again. But how to get started? What are the new dating rules? How do you avoid the pitfalls that befall so many other dads in your situation? Most divorced dads fear reentering the dating world. Probably topping the list is the uncertainty of how their children will respond.
When Considering an Attorney, See Samples of the Bill
One of the difficulties of hiring an attorney is it a skill you don’t exercise often. If you hired a lawyer every month, you would improve in your selection process. For this reason, when seeking an attorney, you need to start by interview at least five. Next, prepare your list of interviewing questions, call and checked their references, …
Who Needs Camping to Bond? Marshmallows in a Fireplace
As a parent, there is that special moment in your kids’ life when you are out sleeping under the stars. Maybe in a tent, your family put together. Around a fire that you built. Roasting those gooey marshmallows on a stick you found hiking in the woods. Camping provides a bonding experiencing that only nature in all her cricket…
She Suggests Divorce? Offer a Time-Out Trip
In most marriages, moms spend more time taking care of the kids than any other adult. When the kids are young, it is very important that you take your wife out on date nights, and quarterly spend time away from the kids. But we’re not talking about marriage building. Your wife is talking divorce. Maybe she has just served you paperwork. She is totally stressed out.
Should I Stay Married for the Kids? Maybe
We’ve all heard it, maybe seen it up close or can speak of first-hand experience. “I’m unhappy in my marriage, but I’m staying in it for my kids.” But should you? Is it an idea that stems from good intentions but is it really in the best interest of the kids? Now we can find all kinds of confusing statistics and graphs that tell us that is or isn’t the proper course of action, but what about…
Statistical Update: Single Fathers on the Rise
Single fathers used to be an anomaly. With small numbers, all of which meant you had few resources, no place to turn for solace, or for counsel. But how many of you now actually exist? How many *‘friends’* or at least single dad colleagues are out there now? How much have the numbers grown? And who are you?
How to Mean Business in Front of Your Judge
So let’s get this straight. A person you barely know (judge), is going to make life-changing decisions for you, and your child. How much visitation you get, whether or not you get custody, and how much child support you will pay will be determined by this person. Great. No pressure here. Of course, you must prepare for the initial meeting, and you can’t be careless or neglectful.
One Simple Trick to Learn How to Cook for My Kids! Part 2
Before I started home cooking in truth, I had three spices: salt, pepper, and an old bottle of taco seasoning I found in a cabinet. Now I have over thirty. If tarragon chicken isn’t well-received, I’ll do a lemon zest or paprika version. I can’t do a lot of sauces because…
One Simple Trick to Learn How to Cook for My Kids! Part 1
In the period leading up to our separation, my wife and I were, understandably, not doing a whole lot together. Part of the fallout from this was that only one of us would be entirely responsible for cooking for the kids, an activity that we used to share.
Divorce Questions from the Mouth of Babes
There are few parenting moments more difficult than having to answer your kids’ questions about the divorce. No matter how much you prepared yourself for their inevitable confusion, those moments still manage to catch you off guard. How are you supposed to help them wrap their heads around life after divorce…
An Effective Childcare Plan Helped Father Gain Custody
In January 2013, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania switched a couple’s joint-custody arrangement to giving sole custody to the father. The child was just about to start kindergarten. The trial took only two days. While the mother focused on the past and failed to show her worthiness as the better parent.
How to Avoid Minefields in Dating After Divorce
At some point, you’ll want to share your new life with someone long term, or maybe you’ll want to embrace your new bachelor lifestyle and ‘play the field.’ But whichever of these philosophies you try, you will soon have to face the daunting task of actually asking for a date. The last time you did that, you drove a Volkswagen Beetle.