Father's Day in the United States
Father's Day in the United States is on the third Sunday of June. It celebrates the contribution that fathers and father figures make for their children's lives. Its origins may lie in a memorial service held for a large group of men, many of them fathers, who were killed in a mining accident in Monongah, West Virginia in 1907.
How Can AI Improve Educational Outcomes in the United States?
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This Father’s Day, How About We Stop Judging Dads So Harshly?
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As the father of seven kids, five of them girls, I’ve enjoyed my status as their go-to super hero or knight in shining armor. I still miss the days when...
Fathers Know Better Than EVER
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For Father’s Day: How About Some Balance?
Fathers in the workplace often find it difficult to manage, or ask for, work-life balance.
What an absent Father can teach us about the Trinity
Fathers can learn to be better fathers by opening up more
One Valley non-profit organization is working to help men open up to each other more in order to help fathers be better fathers.
Infographic: How new fathers are using their paid leave
With Father’s Day just around the corner life insurance company ShelterPoint decided to take a look at how paid family leave polices are impacting working dads.
Why Moms Are Your Greatest Asset to Increase Father Engagement
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To those who are contemplating leaving the United Methodist Church
I write this letter with an aching heart. I have heard the pain in the voices of so many of you, wondering if it is time to “shake the dust off” and leave your local church. As your bishop, I cannot ask you to stay in a place where your soul cannot be at rest. However, I will share with you why I, a
5 Life Lessons I Learned from My Father
Dad taught me to use every experience in my life as a foundational moment—not to be stopped by adversity, to look for and learn from the lessons from any situation and build from there.
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In case my father ever stumbles upon this article, I want to preface this reading with an undeniable fact—I was raised by a great father. Dad was present throughout my formative years and now as an adult. He supported my learning from grade school...
