WELCOME

This blog is about fatherhood. Black fatherhood to be exact. But it's also about how no matter our race, gender, political affiliation (or whatever it is that can potentially separate us), good parents are all connected through parenthood. Our shared experiences are what bind us, not to mention our love of a good story.
Vacations

Archives

Tags

Please Donate to Malecare’s FatherDad Program

Malecare, the national prostate cancer support nonprofit, is the sponsoring nonprofit organization of the FatherDad African American parenting program. Literally 100% of your donation will go towards furthering our goal of empowering and promoting Fatherhood in our community. Keith Morton has volunteered for nearly four years to write this blog. Please help us take his work to the next level. Please be generous.

RSS RSS for African American Dad

Links:

Archive for January, 2007

MY KID IS “BADDER” THAN YOURS…

Or so it seems. This despite the fact that my son run’s to me every evening, smiling his cheeky smile, shouting “Daaaaaaaaaaaddy!” in a way that melts my work-weary heart. After we’ve greeted with a big hug, I’ll ask him if he was a good boy and he’ll say “yes” with a nod. However, there [...]

MY KID IS SMARTER THAN YOURS

OK, that may not be true, but don’t we like to think that about our offspring anyway?  It’s kind of like having a kid that’s not all that cute and thinking he or she is the next Denzel or Halle.  We, as parents, are blind to the reality that our kids possibly have average looks and IQs.  [...]

LET’S BE CLEAR…

I post the “funny” parts of mine and my wife’s conversations with my boy.  These are the interactions in a day that I can look back on and discover the humor.  I don’t mention the other part of the conversations.  The part where I grow fur and go apeshit, or, at the very least, I put on [...]