Last Sunday was my 26th year celebrating Father’s Day as a dad, my 7th as a SoloDad and my first as a GrandDad. For some in my acquaintance, days like Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, birthdays, and anniversaries are huge events with picnic and cookouts in parks or celebrated with friends and family at home. People come out of the woodwork it seems to...

“LE’s really growing up, isn’t he?” A former colleague and mastermind buddy emailed me a week or so ago. She’d seen this video and commented on LE’s vertical growth, his deepening voice, and his overall physical maturity. “Yes,” I countered in a reply…”but into what?” The Metamorphosis of...

Welcome to Day #1 of the 31 Days To Become a Better Solo-Dad series. In this series if posts, we’re going to examine 31 ways you can work toward becoming the Solo-Dad you want to be in your kids’ lives. This is not a 31 day crash course and I don’t expect you to work on each of these areas of your parenting on subsequent days. Rather, it’s an...

Show me a single parent household and I’ll show you a household in need of more income. Now, I realize there are exceptions to this bold statement, but I’m confident that 8 out of 10 single parent households don’t realize the kind of income they need to provide a lifestyle that ensures: Bills are paid on time. Kids aren’t left alone to care...

When it comes to my children, I am truly a rich man. I have four children and all are amazing individuals: Ben is 21, recently married Crystal and is a criminal justice major at the University of Phoenix. Jeremy is 23 and a mechanical engineering major at San Francisco State University LE is 13 and manages to put up with me on a daily basis. Bethany Sara is my...