Open Letter to Today's Dad

To Today's Father:
A new year starts, and lots of opportunities, roads to choose, and decisions to be made.
Depending upon the age of your little or not-so-little one(s), you may be facing hunting down tours and applications for preschools, or considering the sports for them to get enrolled and playing in, or what Kindergarden class they might start in, etc...

Things to consider: Are you making time with your family, your wife, and your child(ren) the main priority? How self-involved have you been since the latest child was born? Do you feel the child's bond to you is solid, even if not as deep as with the mother? Do you take time to help, wherever possible, within the home, rather than just going to work, coming home, and maybe seeing the child for moments at a time either upon awakening or just prior to bedtime?
How about your attention and intentions with your wife or partner? Has attention been payed to the emotional needs, before focusing just on the physical needs for intimacy and feeling special and wanted and desired yourself?

Our present generation has the opportunity to reinvigorate, and in a way, reinvent and update what it really can mean to be a father. We can put efforts toward being seen more as equals in terms of the care of our child(ren), the bonding with which they can develop a more solid state of self-esteem and what it means to have a healthy attachment and later success with healthier relationships.

Later installments here can and will go into depth further. Merely consider this a start to a New Year's potential for success.