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‘Good Talk, Dad’ – Bill and Willie Geist on the Challenges of Fatherhood

June 11, 2014 by Matt Schneider Leave a Comment

Bill Geist, Willie Geist

Blooming onions, beat-up red Jeeps, and baseball lineups are all part of our conversation with father and son Bill and Willie Geist, TV personalities and authors of the new book, Good Talk, Dad: The Birds and the Bees ... and Other Conversations We Forgot to Have.

We also talk about the challenges of being a good dad while pursuing a TV career, the changing media portrayal of dads, and life with a family in New York City.

Bill Geist is the beloved, award-winning, long-time special correspondent for CBS: Sunday Morning, whose debut Little … [Read more...]

Filed Under: growing up, parenting styles, relationships Tagged With: Bill Geist, books, fathers, humor, Modern Dad Podcast, podcasts, sons, Willie Geist

Lessons Moms Learned from Their Dads, Part 1

June 10, 2014 by Kevin McKeever Leave a Comment

Sarah Darer Littman and her father Stanley Paul Darer

Editor’s Note: To celebrate Father’s Day, we asked some moms we dig what was the greatest lesson their dads taught them that they abide by in raising their own children. Here are the first batch of responses. Watch for more Thursday. – KMcK. Lessons Mom Learned: Quiet strength My dad was in the military for 45 years. When I tell people this, they assume he’s a tough, take-no-crap, authoritarian type of father, but that’s not at all the case. He was strict when my two sisters and I were kids, for sure, but not in the screaming, yelling type of way. Rather, my dad is quiet and genial … … [Read more...]

Filed Under: holidays, moms, parenting advice, parenting styles, relationships Tagged With: daughters, Father's Day, fathers, Third Path Institute

How My Absentee Father Has Influenced My Parenting

June 6, 2014 by Christopher Persley Leave a Comment

dad-and-daughter

For the first time in 11 years, I read the novel, Things Fall Apart. As an English teacher, I honestly feel that each time you read a book, you see different things. Although it has always been a challenging read due to the spousal abuse, this time, I read this book in the mindset of a parent and husband. The protagonist Okonkwo is not the most liked of characters and a poor father at best. This is due in large part to his being influenced by his relationship with his father. In addition, his father is not much of a role model. Everything Okonkwo does is in response to how little he thought … [Read more...]

Filed Under: growing up, memories Tagged With: absentee father, black fathers, fathers, sons

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