The Joy of Fathering
Fatherhood fulfills some of our most basic instincts.

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 |  Soccer Dad
He's the kid who the coach always puts at left fullback, so he'll be out of the way. |

 |  Raising Junior: Practical Uses for Children
You don't care that a cuddly meat puppet will make your life more complete; you want to know how Junior will make your life more productive. Well, listen up, Alphas. This father of three has the answers. |
 Fathering: Learning Through Experience
Children can learn how to behave in differing social settings by being a part of their parents' social life. The child left out will be left behind socially, too. |

 |  Father Poem: A Child's Hug
If a child is Heaven sent, then we are not giving but receiving. It is a child's hug that permeates our soul and thus we are graced. |

 |  A Big Job
That was the moment when I knew how important daddies can be to little girls. |

 |  Father-Son Poem: Nightly Ritual
Drifting off to sleep You held my neck so very tightly Nestled on my shoulder I tilted your head just so slightly Never have I known A moment so tender and so sweet |

 |  Magnolias
The message I got was to slow down, the teacher, a stalwart Southern Magnolia. |

 |  My Dad Is a Hero
...all of a sudden we were fugitives....Dad, I know you spent fathers' day in jail this year, so no one else has to do what we had to do. You are my hero, dad, I love you. |

 |  My Gift to Babies and Parents
We all love to give birthday and Christmas gifts, so I have made a list of the top ten toys that infants love and should have in their first years of life. |
 What My Father Taught Me
Full-Time Dads Magazine asked correspondents to share something special that their father taught them. |

 |  Fatherhood: Loving Kids
I decided to have kids. I think fatherhood appealed to me because I felt I had something to give, spare room in my life, a tender feeling that I wanted to protect and nurture. |
 At the Circle's End - FatherMag Fiction
A killer disease has struck, causing rapid aging and death for all adults. One man finds himself to be the only adult who isn't getting older with the rest, in a world soon to be populated only by children. |

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