There are times in my life when my wife looks at me and says, “If you’re going to post all this Abiding Fathers stuff on your social media, you need to start acting like one.”

And I’m like, “Okay, I guess I better start listening.”

We have two children. My son has autism. My daughter is the child with the autistic sibling. So I tend to focus my life on his needs and I tend to focus on his well-being and she’s got a life too. Being a better father means not to just push her needs aside but know that she’s just as needy as he is, but in a different way. (more…)