Words for dads to live by. Some times it takes great tragedy to really understand what living in the moment with your kids really means. We all fail at this a million times a day, but anything it takes to bring us back to the “now” when with our kids is good stuff. Actor Michael J. Fox’s Parkinson’s Disease has helped him to become a better dad. The star insists his medical condition made him put his kids first and his work second. During an interview with Oprah Winfrey, which aired on her daily talk show on Tuesday, Fox said, “If I’m sitting, watching TV or something and my kids come and they want to show me something, they wanna ask me something, I just...

In an interview with Men’s Health editor Dave Zinczenko, Obama talked about coming to terms with his relationship with his father. ”I would like to think that most of the issues related to my father have been resolved,” he said. “That’s part of what writing Dreams from My Father was about: understanding him, his own personal tragedy. He wasn’t a presence in my life, he was an idea that I had to wrestle with for a long time. In this interview, on his 47th birthday, he said, “Somebody once said that every man is either trying to live up to his dad’s expectations or make up for his dad’s mistakes. And I’m sure I was doing a little bit of both,” Obama said said....

Every one has to make their own choices in life and parenting, but it’s clear that kids need a lot of attention and time. I always want to read more when I see stories like this one about Gérard Depardieu’s son, who just died of pneumonia. He got in trouble for speeding, drugs and a conviction for drink-driving that landed him in jail earlier this year. He had his right leg amputated in 2003 as result of a hospital infection developed during operations to recover from a motorbike accident in 1995. The son of Gerard and Elisabeth Depardieu, Guillaume had starred alongside his father for the first time in director Alain Corneau’s “Tous les matins du monde” (All the...