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Posted on Wednesday 6 September 2006
Welcome to the September 2006 A Father’s Voice. This month’s column is called, Making Note of My Parental Power. Most parents complain about the sense of powerlessness they feel. But I was recently reminded that I have incredible power to influence my children’s behavior as a parent. I just needed to make note of it.
I am incredibly excited to inform you I have hired a public relations consultant to handle press inquiries and to work on getting more articles and columns published. Their name is Mulberry Street Marketing, in part because of the book called, And to Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street, and how this incredible event was created from imagination. Hopefully, incredible things will continue to develop with our new partnership. As a reminder, A Father’s Voice is now a syndicated column featured in parenting sites such as Clever Parents and Fatherville. If you don’t live in the Dallas area and didn’t get a chance to see my article published in Dallas Child, please check out Sunday Sadness on my web site. For those of you who don’t read Two Okapis regularly, I have shifted its focus slightly. I am now also writing about the challenges of overcoming my childhood to be what my children need me to be. I hope you will check it out.
A Father’s Voice is the voice of a father overcoming my childhood to be the best dad I can be to my children, while working full-time outside the home. I write during the only disposable time of my day - on the train to and from work.
You can hear A Father’s Voice in my voice below, subscribe to A Father’s Voice podcasts, subscribe to A Father’s Voice via email, check out A Father’s Voice archives, and read this latest issue. You can even see pictures of what the notes look like.
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Is your column going to be on your blog? Or is it only going to be on the sites you mentioned?
Just trying to figure out where to go to read your stuff.
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[...] Let me first tell you that I have changed the purpose of the notes. For those of you new to Two Okapis (welcome, by the way, thanks for stopping by), I had been leaving my Okapis notes when they slept well as a reward for sleeping through the night (want to see a picture of them?). But as time went on, I felt the notes meant too much and were too significant to use them as a disciplining tool – to withhold them seemed like withholding my feelings for them and I didn’t like that. When they didn’t sleep well, I still left them a note, because a note is really now about me letting them know how I feel when I go to work and can’t see them in the morning. We’ve been using treats as rewards for sleeping well, though even those are less of a big deal since they pretty much sleep well every night now (let’s take a moment to do a little jig – WOO HOO!!!! C’mon, dance with me! “Sleeping through the night!†Shake those hips, move those feet. YEAH BABY!). [...]