Dad's Best Friend
My Son~ My Friend
Welcome to Dad's Best Friend
In 2008 a group of dads from Washington State began meeting together to share philosophies and ideas about how to spend quality time with our sons and daughters. The truth was we felt a common sense of inadequacy. The more we shared in open and honest discussions, the more we realized how much our sons and daughters wanted to look upon us as their best friends.
In our own childhood none of us had ever experienced such a bond with a paternal figure. From this awakening came the birth of Dad's Best Friend. With your help, we will reach many other dads who recognize the same responsibilities and privileges as we have. We have determined to set all excuses aside.
Our mission here is to bring dad's (aka fathers) together from all over the world. We want to create a serious awakening worldwide among dads. As we come together on the world wide web, we will realize and appreciate our role as parents and life long friends, even in the midst of the most challenging circumstances. Everyone knows that being Daddy can sometimes feel more like a conquest. It's time to explore both unique and common activities we can do with our sons and daughters. We also want to express the joy of being a best friend as well as a dad to our sons and daughters. What do we bring to them? What can we learn from them?
This is the place to find support, mentorship, and resources. Dad's of the world, lets take a closer look at ourselves, our strengths, our weaknesses and prepare to share. Even though our organization was established to build communication among fathers we are not exclusive.We understand that many boys and girls do not have a biological father involved in their lives. We recognize and welcome uncles, step-dads, grandfathers, big brothers, coaches and others who replace the biological role of leadership and paternity in a child's life.
In 2008 a group of dads from Washington State began meeting together to share philosophies and ideas about how to spend quality time with our sons and daughters. The truth was we felt a common sense of inadequacy. The more we shared in open and honest discussions, the more we realized how much our sons and daughters wanted to look upon us as their best friends.
In our own childhood none of us had ever experienced such a bond with a paternal figure. From this awakening came the birth of Dad's Best Friend. With your help, we will reach many other dads who recognize the same responsibilities and privileges as we have. We have determined to set all excuses aside.
Our mission here is to bring dad's (aka fathers) together from all over the world. We want to create a serious awakening worldwide among dads. As we come together on the world wide web, we will realize and appreciate our role as parents and life long friends, even in the midst of the most challenging circumstances. Everyone knows that being Daddy can sometimes feel more like a conquest. It's time to explore both unique and common activities we can do with our sons and daughters. We also want to express the joy of being a best friend as well as a dad to our sons and daughters. What do we bring to them? What can we learn from them?
This is the place to find support, mentorship, and resources. Dad's of the world, lets take a closer look at ourselves, our strengths, our weaknesses and prepare to share. Even though our organization was established to build communication among fathers we are not exclusive.We understand that many boys and girls do not have a biological father involved in their lives. We recognize and welcome uncles, step-dads, grandfathers, big brothers, coaches and others who replace the biological role of leadership and paternity in a child's life.
I am Dad ~ I am Friend.
Is there a required membership age range between father and son? Ages may range from 5 days to 105 years. In fact your son or daughter might be on the way. Dad is 25, son is 2-weeks-alive. Dad is 39 and son is 14. Dad is 53 and son 28. Dad is 67, son is 42, and grandson is 12. Dad is 81 and still kicking; son is 56 and still swimming; grandson is 26, still clueless and lovingly spoiled by Grandpa. Nevertheless, you're all members of Dad's Best Friend!!!
How do you become a DBF member?
Please create a user name and password on our membership page. Your user name must end with a 3 digit number of your choice. If another member has your name and number you will be notified of the change we have applied for you.
Are you also like a best friend to your son or daughter at times? If your answer is yes, then you are already a member of Dad's Best Friend. If your answer was no, then stay with us until you see the light. Our members are counted also from our contact page, blog and forum. If you enter the contact page, answer as many questions as you can and be sure to say, "I am a member as of today!"
Are you also like a best friend to your son or daughter at times? If your answer is yes, then you are already a member of Dad's Best Friend. If your answer was no, then stay with us until you see the light. Our members are counted also from our contact page, blog and forum. If you enter the contact page, answer as many questions as you can and be sure to say, "I am a member as of today!"
In the near future we hope to be able to help children globally in need of medical attention, education, and foster care. We believe that while the desire to love our children and to be known as their best friends are important characteristics, they may be inadequate. Therefore, our organization also seeks to provide resources to disadvantaged fathers. This could facilitate their efforts to participate in adventures, classes, and other events that would help build better relationships between fathers and offsprings. We do not accept donations of any kind as of yet. In case you are interested in making donations you will be notified if and when we decide to become a certified non-profit organization. If this is something you wish to discuss, you will have an opportunity to do so in our forum or share your thoughts as a contributor on our blog.
Real Dads ~ Real Friends
Most of the content on this website, our blogs, and forum will be from the contributions of our members. We do allow contributors to send their photos and articles for posting in our gallery or to be linked back to your websites or blogs.
We do not take ownership of any photos, videos, or music other than that which we have legal rights to. If we decide to post any photos or other materials you have sent to us, each one may have your user name to it. If you prefer your texts or photos to be posted as a link back to your own websites, you must indicate that at the time the materials are contributed. We reserve the right to determine whether or not your website serves a matching interest of our members and not inappropriate material.
We do not take ownership of any photos, videos, or music other than that which we have legal rights to. If we decide to post any photos or other materials you have sent to us, each one may have your user name to it. If you prefer your texts or photos to be posted as a link back to your own websites, you must indicate that at the time the materials are contributed. We reserve the right to determine whether or not your website serves a matching interest of our members and not inappropriate material.
Great Dads ~ Great Friends
In this social network you have only a few requirements to remain a member. You must believe in yourself as one of the best friends your child will ever have even if you are not the biological parent. You must be at least 18 years of age. If you are a stepfather, he is your step son and he is your son. No matter who you are, you are who you are to your child. No matter what age you are, you will always be Daddy. In fact, you will notice photos in the gallery or elsewhere that appear to be two or more older men. Actually, they are dads and sons. No matter what age your sons and daughters are, they are still your children. They are not half children, but your responsibility entirely, even if you see them only once a week. Right? There are some military dads who haven't seen their children in months. They are still dads and our hearts go out to every one of them. There was recently a story brought to our attention about a man who hadn't seen his daughter in 20 years. What brought about the reunion? A daughter's relentless journey to find her dad because she felt she needed that part of her life fulfilled.
The older you are the more experience you might be able to bring to this organization. No, this doesn't mean you have all the answers. Nonetheless, the wisdom an elder father shares with Dad's Best Friend may help to create a healthier family environment and build better, stronger relationships. You have no way of knowing how or who your contributions will help. Fathers all over the world will be reading your passages. Many fathers willingly admit they are clueless and are in need of support, mentoring, and resources. They aren't shy about it at all, while some are more reserved. You know who we're talking about. Many did not have a close positive father-son relationship and are now at the mercy of whatever morsels of sagacity they can gather along the way. Perhaps they can find a few gold nuggets here at Dad's Best Friend. We aren't here to point the finger at anybody. We just know that when men stand up as men, in truth, and respectably in the face of other men incredible things happen.
Harold the Dad, and Marty, his son each weighed more than 300 pounds. Over a two year period they lost 184 pounds between the two of them. Imagine how many people can benefit from their story. It was not an easy task, but they achieved at least part of their goal together.
The older you are the more experience you might be able to bring to this organization. No, this doesn't mean you have all the answers. Nonetheless, the wisdom an elder father shares with Dad's Best Friend may help to create a healthier family environment and build better, stronger relationships. You have no way of knowing how or who your contributions will help. Fathers all over the world will be reading your passages. Many fathers willingly admit they are clueless and are in need of support, mentoring, and resources. They aren't shy about it at all, while some are more reserved. You know who we're talking about. Many did not have a close positive father-son relationship and are now at the mercy of whatever morsels of sagacity they can gather along the way. Perhaps they can find a few gold nuggets here at Dad's Best Friend. We aren't here to point the finger at anybody. We just know that when men stand up as men, in truth, and respectably in the face of other men incredible things happen.
Harold the Dad, and Marty, his son each weighed more than 300 pounds. Over a two year period they lost 184 pounds between the two of them. Imagine how many people can benefit from their story. It was not an easy task, but they achieved at least part of their goal together.
Learning From Dad ~ Learning From a Friend
I am Dad, ~ A Friend to lift You Up
Our target audiences are dads of the world. Nevertheless, we are not insensitive. We believe that all boys especially need a strong and positive male role model, mentor, and leader in their lives. Nevertheless, we are not ignorant of the fantastic responsibility so many single mothers have demonstrated in their sons’ lives. Millions of boys were raised by single women.
We interviewed a 47 -year- old single mother who rock climbs with her two high school boys. Wow! Another interview was held with a 35-year-old mom who snowboards with her middle school son. What? Has your mother ever done anything like that with you? If so, we'd like to hear about it. In fact, the entire world needs to hear about it and the role it played in you becoming the person you are today. Women, all of you who are determined to fill a role otherwise played by a male who is not available, welcome to Dad's Best Friend. You are true super heroes (heroines?).
One of the most powerful things best friends can do is openly talk. This is a very sensitive part of our website, yet we feel it can also be most instrumental in our transformation. It is here in our forums and blogs we may discover and then boldly face our weaknesses, while sharing our strengths and gifts with each other. You have something we need and perhaps we have something you need.
We interviewed a 47 -year- old single mother who rock climbs with her two high school boys. Wow! Another interview was held with a 35-year-old mom who snowboards with her middle school son. What? Has your mother ever done anything like that with you? If so, we'd like to hear about it. In fact, the entire world needs to hear about it and the role it played in you becoming the person you are today. Women, all of you who are determined to fill a role otherwise played by a male who is not available, welcome to Dad's Best Friend. You are true super heroes (heroines?).
One of the most powerful things best friends can do is openly talk. This is a very sensitive part of our website, yet we feel it can also be most instrumental in our transformation. It is here in our forums and blogs we may discover and then boldly face our weaknesses, while sharing our strengths and gifts with each other. You have something we need and perhaps we have something you need.
Dad Carries ~ A Friend Cares
What We Want From You
1. Very brief stories about your relationship with your own father:
2. Activity photos or just poses with your sons and daughters.
3. A list of fun places you've gone and activities you have done with your sons:
4. Father and son hobbies:
5. Best and worst memories of being with or without your own father or
guardian:
6. Maps of great adventure locations:
7. Suggested books on parenting, fatherhood you've read,
great get away locations, travels, activities, etc:
8. CDs and speakers you've listened to:
9. Toys, games, and club activity reviews:
10. Best location directories to shop for supplies and gifts:
11. Can you help us out with a better diet? Where do we find the good stuff?
12. Suggestions on something we can add to this site.
1. Very brief stories about your relationship with your own father:
2. Activity photos or just poses with your sons and daughters.
3. A list of fun places you've gone and activities you have done with your sons:
4. Father and son hobbies:
5. Best and worst memories of being with or without your own father or
guardian:
6. Maps of great adventure locations:
7. Suggested books on parenting, fatherhood you've read,
great get away locations, travels, activities, etc:
8. CDs and speakers you've listened to:
9. Toys, games, and club activity reviews:
10. Best location directories to shop for supplies and gifts:
11. Can you help us out with a better diet? Where do we find the good stuff?
12. Suggestions on something we can add to this site.
I am your dad first and your friend always.
What We Cannot Accept
1. A list of drop off parent spectators activities: We are not opposed to drop-off activities. However, our organization is dedicated to promoting live dads-sons and dads-daughters, other healthy guardian-son or daughter interactions. What do we do together? How to do build positive, healthy family memoirs? For clarification, a dad who drives his son to soccer practice or to the game and remains there cheering and actively supporting the endeavors of his son or the entire team is neither just dropping off nor is he a spectator. In fact if you are a physically limited guardian, you are still welcomed to this site.Your accomplishments and perseverance are somewhat incomprehensible to many able bodied guardians.
2. Your full legal name used as your user name. For protection and right to privacy it is prohibited on our site . Your true identity will only be known if you decide to display it for copyrighted material. First names, nick names, or creative user names are permitted followed by a 3 digit number . Many of you may be may need to remain anonymous for security purposes. Please never send the actual names of your children. You may refer to them as my son or my daughter. Anyone submitting comments to our site must be 18 years or older. For our records only, we must know the full names of anyone wishing to display links to their auction sites or professional counseling with us.
3. Individual pictures of fathers by themselves can be posted on our blogs, point of view, and forum pages but not in the galleries. We realize there is a security consciousness with all parents. Please do not send pictures of any minors by themselves. A show of disregard for this will cause you to be permanently removed from DBF. You may not feel comfortable placing a picture of yourself and or of your child on the internet. We respect this concern and suggest that you do not send any pictures of yourself at all for posting in the gallery, if that is the case.
4. A website limited to discussions about sports. Sports are easy to talk about, but our aim here to recognize all kinds of father-son, father-daughter, gaurdian-child activities. Recently, we were introduced to a father-son investment hobby. In fact, it was the son who introduced the father to it. Believe it or not there are even fathers and sons who enjoy reading and reviewing the same books. Call it nerdy or whatever. Our excitement stands with the bottom line. These fathers and sons are actively engaged in something they enjoy and are like best friends. Inevitably, dads will become old, sons and daughters will become older, yet the shared memories will forever remain young, priceless, and powerful.
1. A list of drop off parent spectators activities: We are not opposed to drop-off activities. However, our organization is dedicated to promoting live dads-sons and dads-daughters, other healthy guardian-son or daughter interactions. What do we do together? How to do build positive, healthy family memoirs? For clarification, a dad who drives his son to soccer practice or to the game and remains there cheering and actively supporting the endeavors of his son or the entire team is neither just dropping off nor is he a spectator. In fact if you are a physically limited guardian, you are still welcomed to this site.Your accomplishments and perseverance are somewhat incomprehensible to many able bodied guardians.
2. Your full legal name used as your user name. For protection and right to privacy it is prohibited on our site . Your true identity will only be known if you decide to display it for copyrighted material. First names, nick names, or creative user names are permitted followed by a 3 digit number . Many of you may be may need to remain anonymous for security purposes. Please never send the actual names of your children. You may refer to them as my son or my daughter. Anyone submitting comments to our site must be 18 years or older. For our records only, we must know the full names of anyone wishing to display links to their auction sites or professional counseling with us.
3. Individual pictures of fathers by themselves can be posted on our blogs, point of view, and forum pages but not in the galleries. We realize there is a security consciousness with all parents. Please do not send pictures of any minors by themselves. A show of disregard for this will cause you to be permanently removed from DBF. You may not feel comfortable placing a picture of yourself and or of your child on the internet. We respect this concern and suggest that you do not send any pictures of yourself at all for posting in the gallery, if that is the case.
4. A website limited to discussions about sports. Sports are easy to talk about, but our aim here to recognize all kinds of father-son, father-daughter, gaurdian-child activities. Recently, we were introduced to a father-son investment hobby. In fact, it was the son who introduced the father to it. Believe it or not there are even fathers and sons who enjoy reading and reviewing the same books. Call it nerdy or whatever. Our excitement stands with the bottom line. These fathers and sons are actively engaged in something they enjoy and are like best friends. Inevitably, dads will become old, sons and daughters will become older, yet the shared memories will forever remain young, priceless, and powerful.
Always My Son ~ Always Your Friend
A Special Note to Contributing Authors
If you are representing a newspapers, magazine, radio station talk-show, producer, publisher, or any other organization, we do not give out information about members. We may however list your organization or business contact information and let our members know what you are looking for. They then will decide whether or not to contact you.
Disclaimer
Dad's Best Friend is not a counseling service. Each of our readers and contributors are responsible for their own comments, materials, and actions. No one is obligated to participate in any activity discovered on this website or in our blogs. We welcome suggestions, opinions, advice, and political views, but we do not authorize nor lay claim to any of them. No opinion shared on this site, our blogs, or forums require anyone to apply the opinions to their own lives.
We will not support or print any literature or views that promote hatred, racism, cultural demeaning, nor criminal activities. We believe in taking absolute safety and security into consideration before fathers and sons attempt any activity. We are far removed from any failure to take serious safety precautions or for any accidents that may result from negligence.
We do not do background checks on any of our members. While we protect the identity of our readers, we also obey all laws. Any threat or disclosure of ongoing child abuse in any form will be reported to authorities. While minors are not allowed to be members we can not prevent them from reading our pages. Therefore, we reserve the right to censor any comments, articles, and or opinions of our contributors. While personal religious affiliations may be declared by any of our members, we are neither a religious nor non-religious organization and will not engage in any discussions regarding it.
We do not encourage fathers to meet with each other or share in activities at any of our affiliated or member suggested amusement sites or adventure activity locations. We do not authorize nor take any responsibility for minors left with other family members and become separated from their own dads. We do not authorize nor do we participate in invitations to meet at homes of any dads. If dads of the same geographical location discover they are both members of our organization they may choose to meet on property owned by one of the two or more parties. However, the meeting is not associated with our organization.
If you are representing a newspapers, magazine, radio station talk-show, producer, publisher, or any other organization, we do not give out information about members. We may however list your organization or business contact information and let our members know what you are looking for. They then will decide whether or not to contact you.
Disclaimer
Dad's Best Friend is not a counseling service. Each of our readers and contributors are responsible for their own comments, materials, and actions. No one is obligated to participate in any activity discovered on this website or in our blogs. We welcome suggestions, opinions, advice, and political views, but we do not authorize nor lay claim to any of them. No opinion shared on this site, our blogs, or forums require anyone to apply the opinions to their own lives.
We will not support or print any literature or views that promote hatred, racism, cultural demeaning, nor criminal activities. We believe in taking absolute safety and security into consideration before fathers and sons attempt any activity. We are far removed from any failure to take serious safety precautions or for any accidents that may result from negligence.
We do not do background checks on any of our members. While we protect the identity of our readers, we also obey all laws. Any threat or disclosure of ongoing child abuse in any form will be reported to authorities. While minors are not allowed to be members we can not prevent them from reading our pages. Therefore, we reserve the right to censor any comments, articles, and or opinions of our contributors. While personal religious affiliations may be declared by any of our members, we are neither a religious nor non-religious organization and will not engage in any discussions regarding it.
We do not encourage fathers to meet with each other or share in activities at any of our affiliated or member suggested amusement sites or adventure activity locations. We do not authorize nor take any responsibility for minors left with other family members and become separated from their own dads. We do not authorize nor do we participate in invitations to meet at homes of any dads. If dads of the same geographical location discover they are both members of our organization they may choose to meet on property owned by one of the two or more parties. However, the meeting is not associated with our organization.
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