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Events
- Bunnings BBQs for Fathers’ Day (WA)
- Celebration Cocktail Function a Great Success!
- City To Surf 2016
- Dads & Kids Rottnest Trip
- Dads’ and Kids’ Travel Experiences
- East Fremantle v West Coast Eagles (Round 20)
- Father-Child Fishing Day Out – SOLD OUT
- Father-Child Fishing Day Out 2015
- Father-Child Fishing Day Out 2016
- Jack Lee Australia’s Men Around Town 2015
- Nedslads Cup
- Overnight Dockside Camp with the Leeuwin Ocean Adventure Foundation (ages 7+)
- Swimming to Rottnest for a great cause
- The Big Camp Out
- The Big Camp Out
- The Big Camp Out 2019
- The Fathering Project Cocktail Party
- The Fathering Project Corporate Bike Ride
- The Inaugural ‘BIG PUSH’ Charity Bike Ride
- Volvo for The Next Generation
- WA Father of the Year Award 2016
- WAFL Fathering Project Round
- Why Fathering Matters with Dr Karl O’Callaghan (Applecross)
- Young Professionals Cocktail Party 2015
- ‘How are you, Dad?’ with Geoff Hutchison (March 12th – April 9th)
Activities, Tips, Experiences
- “I Love You”
- 14 is the New 18 for Girls
- A great tip
- A picture is worth 1,000 words
- A strong father figure can change society
- Accept children as they are
- Accessibility
- Aim for a Caramello Life
- Alcohol and your children
- Ancient wisdom about being a good dad
- Anytime can be time with your child
- Approval instils confidence in young girls
- As time flies by
- Ask how you can help
- Ask the mum for tips
- Assistance programs for FIFO partners
- Attend the kids’ sports and other interests
- Avoid bullying
- Avoid the good cop, bad cop trap
- B.U.S like a pro
- Back-up contact details
- Be a coach
- Be a Father Figure for a Child in Need
- Be a more proactive father
- Be a proactive father
- Be a role model for your beliefs to your children
- Be a role model of the values you want your children to have
- Be an example for your child
- Be aware of children’s emotions
- Be aware of unconscious biases
- Be creative in how you tell your children you love them
- Be involved in your children’s lives outside of school
- Be mentally and physically present
- Be mindful of family time when scheduling meetings
- Be positive
- Be present
- Be present when it matters
- Be spontaneous
- Be the role model your kids need
- Be the voice in your child’s head
- Be there
- Beautiful vs. Pretty
- Begin a family ritual after work
- Being a good father starts with a good mother
- Being a Great Father Can Be Quick and Simple
- Being involved and overcoming peer pressure
- Being there for your Children – A Fatherhood Legacy Story
- Being there for your teenagers
- Beliefs and values; cockroaches and moths
- Benefits of being a dad
- Benefits of being a dad
- Benefits of being an involved dad
- Board games and card games
- Bond over chores
- Bond through struggles
- Bookmark sites about your children
- Boys need an appropriate role model
- Boys’ education
- Break the cycle of a poor role model
- Bringing your child on a work trip
- Bruce Robinson Named Western Australian of the Year
- Bruce Robinson’s fatherly advice
- Bucket list
- Build a cubby house in your lounge room
- Build a model together
- Build confident kids through challenge
- Build contacts in the workplace
- Build up kids’ confidence by encouraging self-reliance
- Build up new traditions with your kids
- BUST!
- Buy a personalised book to read with your child
- Call your child’s teacher or sports coach
- Camp out overnight in the backyard
- Camping with your children can be an adventure
- Celebrate family
- Challenge your kids
- Cherish everyday moments
- Children coping with change
- Children need good father figures
- Coach or manage your child’s sport team
- Come home then go back
- Committed dads benefit personally
- Communicating with your child
- Communication is key
- Connect after dinner
- Connect over a meal
- Connect over shared interests
- Connect with schools electronically
- Consider the cost/benefit trade-off of spending time with your children
- Consider working part time at home
- Consistent family routine
- Conversation starters – primary school children
- Conversation starters – teenagers
- Cook a special meal once a week or once a month
- Coping with Loss
- Count the cost of living unbalanced
- Create ‘magical mystery tours’
- Create a backup support team
- Create a family ritual
- Create a project together
- Create adventurous vacations
- Create albums with dad
- Create family surprises
- Create fun weekend and vacation experiences
- Create special times with your children
- Create time away with each of your kids
- Create time with your children
- Create-a-poem
- Creating a Family Tradition – A Fatherhood Legacy Story
- Creating time with your children
- Dad and Daughter Dates
- Dad Dates
- Dad Trips
- Dads need to be dependable
- Dance with your children – A Fatherhood Legacy Story
- Daughters and dating
- Daughters and Eating Disorders
- Dealing with boys’ complex emotions
- Dennis Lillee
- Discuss beliefs with children
- Discussing beliefs with your children, whatever they are
- Discussing sexuality with your daughter
- Do you know where your child is all day? Visit their school and see!
- Do your work colleagues know you are a dad?
- Don’t be a reactive father
- Don’t be overly proactive
- Don’t create a kid cave!
- Don’t forget some “ME” time
- Don’t postpone being a better dad
- Dr Phyl Prout Talks about Fathering Daughters – An Introduction
- Draw each other’s portrait
- Drugs and your children
- Drugs: be aware
- Eat meals as a family
- Eat together
- Eating out can be an event
- Encourage a healthy lifestyle
- Encourage awareness of surroundings
- Encourage father-figures to spend time with your kids while you are away
- Encourage good fathering in your workplace
- Encourage imagination
- Encourage Learning
- Encourage learning
- Encourage problem-solving skills and open-mindedness
- Encourage reading
- Encourage your children to share their worries
- Encourage your kids
- Encourage your kids to avoid smoking
- Encourage your kids to play team sports
- Encourage your parenting partner
- Encouraging words for mothers from Bruce Robinson
- Establish ground rules
- Everyday conversations are a treasure
- Extra tips for separated dads
- Family Fun: Indoor Ideas
- Family Fun: Outdoor Ideas
- Family Fun: Web Resources
- Family holidays
- Family rituals are important
- Fast track your kid’s vision
- Father to Son Tips Help the New Dad and Kids
- Father’s Day – what does it mean?
- Father-Child Sex Talk
- Fathering improves people skills
- Fathering improves work skills
- Fathering is self-sacrificial
- Fathers have an enormous responsibility
- Fathers teach you what’s important – A Fatherhood Legacy Story
- Fathers who have daughters
- FIFO (Mums’ involvement)
- Find a way for your child to help out around the house
- Find the teachable moments in life
- Five animated movies to watch with your kids
- Five classic adult movies with a fathering message
- Flexibility of working from home
- Focus on your kids when they are with you
- Footy season – get ready!
- Four tips for FIFO dads
- Game Choice – Who Decides?
- Get creative in showing your children you love them
- Get help if you are not coping
- Get involved in your kids’ school
- Get out the pump
- Get some mental exercise
- Get the lowdown on issues at home before you arrive
- Get the rest you need while you are apart from your children
- Get to know their school
- Get to know your children through better listening
- Get your children to send you articles of interest
- Girls learn from their dads how they can expect to be treated by men
- Give freedom to make mistakes
- Give Mum a break
- Give your child something that belongs to you while you are away
- Give your kids a call
- Going away and coming home
- Good Fathering Could Save Australia $5 Billion a Year
- Good fathering improves productivity
- Great fathering tip
- Grow a garden together
- Handling peer pressure
- Handling questions about disasters and violence
- Have a shared parenting plan
- Have a water fight
- Help dad when he is away
- Help your child establish a good homework routine
- Help your child learn how to win and lose well
- Help your child to stay away from drugs
- Help your children consider their future
- Help your children feel special
- Help your children see they are special
- Help your children’s education
- Help your kids avoid smoking
- Help your kids feel special
- Helping dad around the house
- Helping your child handle peer pressure
- Hide and seek
- Holidays at the Beach – A Fatherhood Legacy Story
- Home cafeteria
- How being a good dad benefits you
- How to be a Dad
- How to be ready to be a good dad
- How to discourage kids from pornography
- How to encourage your daughter
- How to manage work and family life
- How to navigate the journey of raising daughters
- How to promote a healthy body image in girls
- How to recognise depression in young kids
- How you can be a father figure
- Ideas for spending time with teenagers
- Ideas for weekends and vacations
- If you are new to FIFO work or lots of travel
- If you miss a dad date
- Impacts when fathers reunite with children
- Indoor activities to try
- Institute family days at work
- Involve kids in your work
- Involving kids in your work
- It is important to say the three words – ‘I Love You’
- Jigsaw puzzles
- Join or start a dads’ group at school or work
- Joke swap
- Jump rope
- Keep a record
- Keep Calm & Carry on
- Keep talking
- Keep track of your child’s events
- Keep your promises
- Keep yourself healthy
- Keeping up with schedules
- Kids and education
- Kids and their devices – achieving a healthy relationship
- Kids appreciate a proactive father
- Kids in high school
- King Tut mixed
- Kiss your wife
- Laugh as a family
- Leadership that matters
- Leading by Example – A Fatherhood Legacy Story
- Learn about becoming a better father
- Learn about parenting
- Learn from your child
- Learn to listen to your children
- Learn to recognise children’s emotions
- Let kids know they are loved
- Let kids know your love is unconditional
- Let them live their own lives
- Life Lessons to be learned from Dad
- Life together is most important
- Link up with other FIFO families
- Link up with other separated dads
- Listen to your children
- Listening Mixed
- Live a balanced life
- Live a balanced life
- Local Heroes: Bruce Robinson
- Look for opportunities to be involved
- Love needs to be shown
- Low-cost ideas for dad dates
- Make an obstacle course in the backyard
- Make conversations more meaningful
- Make it a habit
- Make kids feel worthwhile
- Make more time for family
- Make morning time special
- Make the first move
- Make time during the day
- Make time for kids on work days
- Make use of time before school
- Making family a priority
- Making time
- Making Time for Children on Workdays
- Making time to be a Dad
- Measuring Success
- Mother’s Day – What is Dad’s role?
- My boy, my song for him and my Grandad’s love – A Fatherhood Legacy Story
- Negative Peer Pressure
- New dads: get involved
- New dads: take paternity leave
- Offer freedom with boundaries
- Offset the disappointment of missing important dates
- Older teenage and adult children
- One-on-one time is important
- Parent as a team
- Parents aren’t always right!
- Parents’ survival guide for leavers / schoolies
- Pay it Forward – A Fatherhood Legacy Story
- Photo documentary
- Plan a meal
- Plan ahead
- Plan an outing on a regular basis
- Plan your next dad dates
- Plan your school involvement for the upcoming year
- Plan your workday backwards
- Play a board game
- Play card games
- Play games using Skype
- Play games!
- Play is more than just a game
- Play One on One!
- Play with your children
- Practise good communication
- Praise your kids – often
- Prioritising when seeing your kids again – that first hour counts
- Promote a positive attitude to education and school
- Promote a positive attitude to their school
- Provide a sense of security
- Put family first
- Put your kids to work
- Quality time
- Quality time is not enough
- Quality time requires self-sacrifice
- Questions to ask on a dad date
- Radio interview with 6PR on The Fathering Project
- Rain, Hail & Shine – A Fatherhood Legacy Story
- Raise your kids to be adventurous
- Raising daughters in a nutshell
- Read aloud to your children
- Read books together
- Read to baby
- Really listen to your children – they will notice!
- Record videos reading story books
- Register a Dream Team together
- Remove distractions
- Respect your children’s carers and the role they play when the children are not with you
- Review why you are FIFO
- Role Model – A Fatherhood Legacy Story
- Rough and Tumble Play
- Runaway toy
- Say “I love you”
- Schedule work around your family
- Send messages to say “I love you”
- Separated dads – additional tips
- Set a treasure trail
- Set at-home office hours
- Set goals
- Share a hobby
- Share a hobby with your child
- Share a laugh
- Share a laugh with them
- Share Dreams
- Share interesting facts about where you are working or living
- Share news of advances in science, technology, and other areas
- Share the team manager role
- Show Them You Care
- Show them you love them
- Show your children you love them, always
- Shut up and listen!
- Skip the Hallmark Card for Mother’s Day
- Socialising with your children
- Space travel
- Special relationship with dad
- Spend time together after school
- Spend time together before school
- Stay connected during the day
- Stay engaged when you are with your kids
- Stimulate your child’s curiosity
- Stimulate your child’s imagination
- Stimulate your child’s interest
- Strategies for dealing with bullying
- Struggling to accept a child with disabilities
- Support men who choose family over career
- Support your children’s education
- Supporting teens through major exams
- Take a spontaneous afternoon off occasionally
- Take each of your children on one-on-one trips
- Take each of your kids out regularly for ‘dad dates’
- Take mini-vacations
- Take other children along with yours
- Take responsibility
- Take something from your children to your life on site
- Take your child to the museum
- Take your child with you on a trip – Part 1
- Take your child with you on a trip – Part 2
- Take your children out occasionally for a treat
- Take your children to the local community library
- Talk about sexuality with boys and girls
- Talk about your job
- Talk on the Way to School
- Talk to your kids
- Talking about sexuality with boys and girls
- Teach kids to have hope for the future
- Teach values to your children
- Teaching children values
- Teamwork in parenting
- Teenage girls and the pressure they face
- Teenagers and their fathers/father figures
- Tell your kids how special they are
- Tell your kids that they are special
- Tell your kids that your love is unconditional
- That lingering sense
- The benefits of sleep for your child
- The Big W
- The daughter-dad relationship
- The importance of father figures
- The Life Changing Fathering Book
- The power of good father figures
- The Powerful Role of Men in Young Lives
- The SOCK Theory
- The Thin Red Line
- The trap of big presents
- The value of everyday moments
- They’re only young once
- Things no one tells you about being a new dad
- Tips for Dads to help Encourage Learning about Values and Beliefs
- Tips for separated dads
- Tips for separated dads Part 2
- Tips to Help Encourage Learning
- Toast marshmallows over an open fire
- Top Five Movies about Fathering
- Top Ten Tips for Being a Great Dad
- Treasure hunt
- Treat your kids with respect
- Try a continuous story
- Tune in to the “home tone”
- Unconditional love
- Upcoming events while you are away
- Use technology to stay connected during the day
- Use technology when travelling
- Use the time spent travelling to and from school to listen to your children
- Utilize a flexible schedule
- Video: The Fathering Project Dads Groups
- Virtual dinner
- Watch the clouds
- Watch waves crash during storms
- Ways to stay mentally healthy
- What a Baby Really Needs from Their Dad
- What boys need
- What Children Need from Their Dads
- What dads need
- What girls need from their dads
- What to do When the Other Parents Don’t Care
- What’s the worry?
- When fathers praise teenage daughters with parental intelligence
- Why be an engaged and committed dad?
- Why the Fathering Project?
- Work around children’s busyness
- You have to say NO: Kids Must Take Responsibility
- Your child and current news
- Your greatest accomplishment
- You’ve got mail
- “Being there” with technology
- “Post-it” notes in the lunch box
Sponsor Widgets
- ACNC Registered Charity
- AFA Insurance
- Armada Accountants
- Aussie Outdoor Cinemas
- Department of Local Government & Communities
- Euroz Foundation
- Jon & Caro Stewart
- Lexus of Perth
- Lotterywest
- McCusker Charitable Foundation
- Minderoo
- Minderoo Principal Partner of the Schools Program
- P&N Bank
- Pacific Equity Partners
- Ride sponsors
- Telethon
- The Curtain Hardware Company
- UWA
- WA Partners
- Wesfarmers
Dads Groups
- Applecross Primary School
- Applecross Senior High School
- Aquinas College
- Armadale Primary School
- Attadale Primary School
- Baldivis Primary School
- Banksia Grove Primary School
- Bannister Creek Primary School
- Bassendean Primary School
- Bateman Primary School
- Bayswater North Primary School
- Beaconsfield Primary School
- Bendemeer Public School
- Berkeley Public School
- Berkeley West Public School
- Berry Public School
- Bethel Christian School
- Bicton Primary School
- Birmingham Primary School
- Bonnet Bay Public School
- Booragoon Primary School
- Bramfield Park Primary School
- Buderim Mountain State School
- Bulli Public School
- Bunbury Primary School
- Byford Primary School
- Camberwell Primary School
- Caralee Community School
- Carine Primary School
- Carine Senior High School
- Caringbah Public School
- Carramar Primary School
- Cecil Andrews College
- Christchurch Grammar School
- Churchlands Primary School
- Churchlands Senior High School
- Claremont College Coogee
- Collier Primary School
- Como Primary School
- Coolbinia Primary School
- Cooloongup Primary School
- Corrimal Public School
- Croydon Hills Primary School
- Currambine Primary School
- Deanmore Primary School
- East Hamersley Primary School
- East Hamilton Hill Primary School
- East Victoria Park Primary School
- Edgewater Primary School
- Ellen Stirling Primary School
- Farmborough Road Public School
- Figtree Heights Public School
- Fremantle Christian College
- Good Shepherd Catholic School
- Gosnells Primary School
- Great Southern Grammar
- Greenmount Primary School
- Grovelands Primary School
- Guildford Grammar School
- Gunnedah Public School
- Gwynne Park Primary School
- Gymea Baptist Church
- Halidon Primary School
- Hammond Park Catholic Primary School
- Hartwell Primary School
- Hillarys Primary School
- Honeywood Primary School
- Inglewood Primary School
- Jannali East Public School
- John XXIII College
- Jurien Bay District High School
- Kalamunda Christian School
- Karrinyup Primary School
- Kensington Primary School
- Kingsley Primary School
- Kinross Primary School
- Kurnell Public School
- Kyilla Primary School
- Lake Gwelup Primary School
- Lake Heights Public School
- Lakelands Primary School
- Loftus Public School
- Makybe Rise Primary School
- Mandurah Baptist College
- Mandurah Catholic College
- Manning Primary School
- Margaret River Independent School
- Mater Christi Catholic Primary School
- Matthew Pearce Public School
- Melville Primary School
- Mercedes College
- Methodist Ladies College
- Millen Primary School
- Mindarie Primary School
- Mount Hawthorn Primary School
- Mount Lawley Primary School
- Mount Ousley Public School
- Mount Pleasant Primary School
- Mount Sinai College
- Mount Terry Public School
- Murwillumbah High School
- Nedlands Primary School
- Neerigen Brook Primary School
- North Dandalup Primary School
- North Perth Primary School
- North Woodvale Primary School
- Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Primary School
- Our Lady of Good Counsel School Karrinyup
- Our Lady of Grace Primary School
- Our Lady’s Assumption School
- Oxley Vale Public School
- Oyster Bay Primary School
- P&N Bank
- Parkfield Primary School
- Penrhos College
- Piara Waters Primary School
- Presbyterian Ladies’ College
- Preview School
- Quinns Beach Primary School
- Regent College
- Richmond Primary School
- Rockingham Beach Primary School
- Rosalie Primary School
- Rostrata Primary School
- Samson Primary School
- Santa Maria College
- Scotch College
- Shellharbour Anglican College
- Solway Primary School
- Somerly Primary School
- Sorrento Primary School
- South Coast Baptist College
- Southern Hills Christian College
- Spring Hill Primary School
- St Benedict’s Primary School
- St Damien’s Catholic Primary School
- St Hilda’s Anglican School for Girls
- St John Bosco College
- St Mark’s Anglican Community School
- St Michael’s Catholic Primary School
- St Peter’s Primary School
- St Stephen’s School
- St Therese Catholic Primary School
- St Thomas Primary School
- Sunbury Heights Primary School
- Sunbury Primary School
- Sylvania Heights Public School
- The Fathering Project Board Members Dads Group
- The West Coast Eagles
- Trinity College
- Uralla Central School
- Victoria Park Primary School
- Victoria Road Primary School
- Waniora Public School
- Warranwood Primary School
- Weld Square Primary School
- Wembley Downs Primary School
- West Coast Steiner School
- West Greenwood Primary School
- West Leederville PS Dads Group
- Westfield Park Primary School
- Whitfords Catholic Primary School
- Willandra Primary School
- Wollongong Public School
- Wollongong West Public School
- Woodvale Primary School
- Yarrawarrah Public School
Success Stories
- Annual Activities by the NedsLads
- Booragoon Primary School’s Top Gun Night
- Fathers take centre stage at St Peter’s
- How men helped men at Christchurch Grammar
- Men of John XXIII’s City to Surf 2015 experience
- September is “DADember” at St Peter’s
- St Joeys NSW
- St. Peters School Campout
- The Dads of Booragoon
- The DUCKs of Kensington Primary School Camp Wrap Up
- The Great Activities by the LADDs
- The Strike Night Bowling MOB
- Yarra Dads Hairdressing Workshop
People
- Andrew Scipione AO APM
- Colin West
- Craig Heatley
- David Flanagan
- Dennis Cometti
- Dennis Lillee AM, MBE
- Dr Bruce Robinson
- Dr Tim Hawkes OAM
- Ian Macliver
- James McMahon DSC, DSM
- John Anderson AO
- John Bond
- Kim Grist
- Martin Black
- Mimi Packer
- Nick Farr-Jones AM
- Peter Abery
- Prof Donna Cross
- Prof Fiona Wood AM
- Rev Tim Costello AO
- Sean Johns
- Wayne Bradshaw