For many years, I’ve seen my two sons only on alternate weekends.  I’ve hated the separation, but somehow that’s the hand life deals; you do [...]

The day after Thanksgiving, my wife Anne and I took my kids to Disney’s High School Musical on Ice. What could be more patriotic than ice dancers simulating basketball to a syrupy Disney soundtrack? The kids were mesmerized, and I dropped cash at the souvenir stand as if I was competing for their attention with Thanksgiving itself…

The ten most important things divorced fathers should realize as they transition parentally from “Husband and Father” to “One-and-Only Dad”…

I’m all for positive nuclear family images in kid films, even the “hit-you-over-the head-with-a-mallet” kind (see: Spy Kids). What makes me uncomfortable is when divorce is superfluously depicted to kids as the end of the world. The obvious inference to real-life children of divorce (of which there are roughly one million a year): Your family is broken. Happy ending for us; stinks to be you.

If you have been reading the articles I have written for Dad-O-Matic over the past 5 months or so you may have gleaned that I [...]

By Danny Guspie
This is my personal story and journey.
The first year that that my wife and I were separated was by far the most difficult [...]

The holidays can be bittersweet for Dads on the backside of any divorce, even a “good one.” I’ve been doing it for a while, and thought I’d use a post to reflect on what I’ve learned about how to manage the bad, and maximize the good.
1. Never make your kids choose between their two families.
My [...]