Category: Fathers

You’re most probably someone’s step-mother or father, someone’s step-brother or sister and your parents are someone’s step-mother or father. There’s always a step-someone that needs to step in and carry on with the bait…has it always been like this? Will this ever stop maybe? Why is it that one man can’t love one woman, settle...

There’s a new popular show on tv and in the advert for this coming week’s episode we see the father giving his sons advice “do not ever date girls that have children”. I laughed. I also remembered that this is actually a real thing that parents tell their boy children. It is also a preference...

The thought of not spending Christmas with my children makes absolutely NO sense to me…they will spend Christmas with me until they’re adults and are married – non-negotiable! This led me to think about co-parenting. Kimora Lee and her ex’s and current are such an idealistic family, she has four children with three men who...

When we think about fathers, we automatically think of the provider of the family, the one who makes sure there is food on the table and a roof over their family’s head. I am talking about the real father out there who didn’t run away from their responsibilities. That is what is expected of them...

For the longest time, I didn’t understand the influence my parents had over me. I always looked at them as guardians more than anything else, which they are. Black parents do their best to make sure that you turn out to be a decent citizen. If you don’t go to jail or do drugs, they...

You know how kids brag about their fathers? I always made sure that mine was recognized and respected, you best believe. My siblings and I always looked forward to him coming home every weekend; we knew that goodies were on the way. He knew we loved ice cream so whatever time when he got home,...

My Father was always there, I could remember that he was the first person I would encounter when I got back from school. My father ran his own business, apparently he worked once at Avis then started his own business soon after that. My father was either at home, which was next door to the business or...

There’s the time at 14, when my parents could no longer afford my hostel fees and the school left me at the police station for my father to fetch me; because that was school policy for when your parents had failed to fetch you on time: to abandon you further than you were already abandoned...

CHANGES I didn’t become a father on the day you were born. I started becoming a father years before that day. It was a process that started as fleeting thoughts of what it would be like if I ever had a child. Those moments when I would see a man and his child crossing the...