Building a stick fence and cubby house provides a bunch of children – and one grown man – with lessons in collaboration.
“Sometimes the fathering is wonderful,but mostly it’s a routine. Piles of washing,finding school uniforms,bowls of porridge...”
A weekend in the bush sparks warm memories of childhood experiences.
I’ve shown my boys how it is to love again. Now that love has gone,it’s time to show them what to do next.
A writer baulks at the mundane job he’s wound up with,before discovering some valuable lessons among the soap suds.
Australian dads are among the oldest in the world,a trend that’s causing a societal shift with all sorts of untested ramifications,writes Dugald Jellie.
Sick of screen obsessions and worried about too many TV dinners,a single dad reaches back into his own childhood to find a solution.
Moving to a new place involves an inevitable stocktake – not just of your goods,but of your emotional life.
Hardly a midlife crisis,it’s more a car as contraceptive. I’ve become the invisible man in the milky white work ute.
To be curious about maps is to be interested in life.
Playgrounds may have reopened,but I hope these long lockdown days have made people rethink how children play.