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cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify'=3EChristmas is coming and in Australia we have =
developed a beautiful custom for Christmas called Carols by Candlelight=2E T=
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r first Christmas carols by candlelight for the year at the conservatorium o=
f music=2E Levi our 18 yr old son was playing saxophone in the conservatoriu=
ms jazz band=2E Some of the students recited Dr Suess =93 How the Grinch sto=
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 who lived in Who-ville=2E=A0 The Who=92s of Who-ville loved to join hands a=
nd sing and sing and sing at Christmas time=2E=A0'The Grinch=A0hated Christm=
as' to quote Dr Suess=2E It could be perhaps that his shoes were too tight=2E=
=2E But I think that the most likely reason of all may have been that his he=
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ch stole all the Christmas presents, Christmas trees , decorations, food and=
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Grinch thought of some thing he hadn=92t before!=2E=A0' Maybe Christmas=A0' =
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the Grinch got to do with being a good father=2E=3F Well as father=92s we ca=
n have a heart two sizes too small and miss the point of Christmas=2E Christ=
mas is not about presents, but giving=2E Yes, it has become commercial and t=
he retail world milks Christmas for all it can get=2E This doesn=92t change =
the truth of Christmas=2E The true spirit of Christmas comes from Jesus Chri=
st who said =93it is more blessed to give than to receive=94=2E Christmas is=
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u and your time more than anything else=2E Become a giver, not just a receiv=
er this Christmas, and I=92m not talking about presents necessarily=2E</P=3E=
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'=3EChristmas is a unique time to bring your family together and enjoy the r=
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LIGN: justify'=3EYour presents will only last a short time, but if you let y=
our heart grow 3 sizes bigger like the Grinch did, your children and family =
will benefit all year round=2E Exercise your heart muscles and grow your hea=
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face=3DVerdana size=3D2=3EWarwick Marsh is the founder of the Fatherhood Fou=
ndation=2E=A0 Married for 27 years he is the father of five children, four b=
oys and one girl, ranging in age from 21 years to 9 years=2E=A0 Warwick is a=
 musician, songwriter, producer and public speaker who likes to think he can=
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EN-US=3EOk kids, everyone out =96 start digging=2E Bogged again=85sand so th=
ick barely the roof racks were visible=2E What a weekend!! Took my two eldes=
t children, 12 and 9 to Double Island Point for a weekend of camping and sur=
fing with the Maroochydore Christian Surfers club=2E These are the sort of w=
eekends you never forget=2E I don=92t know whether it was the torrential rai=
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N lang=3DEN-US=3EThe build up to this weekend was enormous, every waking mom=
ent was devoted to picturing, dreaming and talking about just how =91sick=92=
 the waves were going to be=2E Oh, and don=92t forget how much fun it will b=
e camping in tents=85no showers for three days, diet of baked beans and pota=
toes in foil, and sand in the sleeping bags =96 doesn=92t get much better th=
an this ladies and gentlemen=2E Well, I=92m afraid to say my queen size bed =
and Nescafe on tap did start to sound very inviting by day 2=2E</SPAN=3E</P=3E=
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still amazed at how kids can have so much fun, even though Murphy=92s Law ha=
s prevailed once again=2E You know, it didn=92t matter that the rain was con=
stant =96 in the eyes of children (and some adults) getting wet is apparentl=
y good fun=2E Even the trip home, disastrous as it was, still was an enjoyab=
le experience as far as the kids were concerned=2E</SPAN=3E</P=3E<P class=3D=
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you don=92t drive 60 km=92s on a beach at high tide=2E The sand is so thick=85=
makes for a very stressful ride =96 especially 8 o=92clock at night, 4 kids =
in the car, no phone reception, and unrelenting pouring rain=2E What I found=
 incredible was, that even after getting bogged for the fourth time, the kid=
s couldn=92t wait to jump out, getting drenched while digging behind the whe=
els, and then getting spayed by sand as they helped push the car free=2E The=
y had a ball=2E Why wasn=92t I enjoying myself=3F</SPAN=3E</P=3E<P class=3DM=
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with screams of jubilation upon reaching tarred road, we all started to reco=
unt just how close we were to not making it this far, sleeping in the car 40=
 km=92s from nowhere =96 nobody knew our location, cold and wet, and to top =
it off=85what would we eat=3F Oh well, they reckon it was great fun=2E Just =
imagine being that young again, where in the face of adversity=85you can sti=
ll smile=2E Children have this uncanny ability to turn events around, classi=
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B=3E fathers today is this=A0=2E=85in times of trouble, have a look at how c=
hildren treat the situation=2E Often you will find things aren=92t as bad as=
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=92ll do it again the day after=2E<SPAN style=3D'mso-spacerun: yes'=3E=A0 </=
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es mso-bidi-font-family: =3FTimes Roman=3F; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA=3F=3E<S=
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Sloan is an accountant working with Equipglobal=2E=A0 He is married with thr=
ee children aged one, nine and eleven years=2E=A0 Paul is an active surfer w=
ho lives on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland=2E=A0 He is a family man who ha=
sn=92t lost his sense of humour=2E<o:p=3E</o:p=3E</SPAN=3E</P=3E</SPAN=3E</S=
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ack to top</a=3E</font=3E</div=3E<br=3E<p=3E</p=3E</font=3E</blockquote=3E</=
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bosweb=2Ecom=2Eau/email=5Fblast/client=5Fimages/fathers=5Fissue16-16th Dec, =
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oNormal style=3D'MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center' align=3Dcenter=3E<=
FONT face=3D'Comic Sans MS' size=3D5=3EHow far you go in life depends on you=
r being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with=
 the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong=2E</FONT=3E</P=3E<P c=
lass=3DMsoNormal style=3D'MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center' align=3Dc=
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erdana size=3D2=3ESometimes I get the feeling that if Christmas, Father's Da=
y and birthdays did not exist, then aftershave too, would not exist=2E </FON=
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ristmas is the time when people put so many bulbs on the outside of their ho=
uses, you don't know if they're celebrating the birth of Jesus or General El=
ectric=2E </FONT=3E</FONT=3E</FONT=3E</FONT=3E</P=3E<P align=3Dleft=3E<FONT =
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=3DVerdana size=3D2=3EEvery year, Christmas becomes less a birthday and more=
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size=3D2=3E<B=3EQuestion:</B=3E What was wrong with the boy's brand new toy =
electric train set he received for Christmas=3F <BR=3E</FONT=3E</FONT=3E<FON=
T face=3DVerdana=3E<FONT size=3D2=3E<B=3EAnswer:</B=3E Forty feet of track -=
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nd about buying her grandmother a packet of handkerchiefs for Christmas=3F <=
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=3DVerdana=3E<FONT size=3D2=3ELast week I related how I decided not to conte=
st 'Factual care and Control' of my children - and that based on an intuitiv=
e 'picture' of a possible future - certainly not much to go on! =2E=2E=2E=2E=
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age: EN-AU'=3E<FONT face=3DVerdana=3E<FONT size=3D2=3EI then went through th=
e usual problems of the single father; 'she' dumps the children on you with =
no notice so you cancel prior engagements, social and work, just to have the=
 opportunity to see more of them; 'she' rings you up and illegally cancels o=
r changes your Access with little or no notice and you dare not complain bec=
ause you suspect that it will be the children who will 'cop it'; on every lo=
ng holiday with you, the children come with only one pair of underpants to l=
ast three weeks, no going-out shoes, threadbare shirts and so on - you buy a=
ll this stuff for them while 'she' has gone for a holiday in Fiji; the child=
ren constantly complain about unfair or unacceptable behaviour in their home=
 and you say, 'Perhaps your mother was not feeling well that week, or maybe =
she had a bad day at work', and so on=2E And you don't say a word against an=
y of it=2E Many bite-marks on the tongue=2E<o:p=3E</o:p=3E</FONT=3E</FONT=3E=
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ur split=2E After having a number of misadventures with various men (includi=
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n an attempt to either 'win' her back or pay her back), she married a very n=
ice, stable, decent man who really loved my children and was a great support=
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2=3EApart from one misguided week, about a year after the split, I had no gi=
rlfriends at all until I met my current wife, Rhonda=2E Five months after we=
 connected, we married=2E This was eight-and-a-quarter years after the end o=
f my first marriage! We are still married today=2E<o:p=3E</o:p=3E</FONT=3E</=
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rdana=3E<FONT size=3D2=3EApologies for the statistics, but this a true story=
=2E If I had obtained Factual Care and Control, my children would have endur=
ed over eight years with no regular contact with a woman=2E By my personal b=
eliefs, this would have been an unsatisfactory situation=2E As it happened, =
I believe it was for the better, even though I personally suffered from not =
seeing my children as much as I would have preferred=2E It was not good that=
 my children lived in two homes and had two families=2E There was too much e=
motional damage done to find good in it=2E Nevertheless, they survived bette=
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This, then, has been a a single father good-news story after all=2E I do hop=
e that you have found in it something positive, uplifting, and encouraging=2E=
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se they had a <I=3Ecomplete</I=3E family under one roof, even if it was not =
their real one=2E Like many other aspects of life, it seems that marriage an=
d family don't always work out the way we had hoped=2E I would not want to d=
e-emphasise the tragedy that this is=2E Nevertheless, we are all faced with =
the choice of doing the best we can in the circumstances and deliberately <I=
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Arial'=3ENeil Porter is a qualified teacher, computer consultant, profession=
al musician, producer and writer who has 4 beautiful children=2E=A0 He was a=
 single dad for 8 years before he remarried in 1984=2E=A0 Neil is passionate=
 to encourage marriages and families=2E=A0 Contact Neil at=A0 <A href=3D'mai=
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'FONT-FAMILY: Verdana'=3EWhat a week =96 teenagers pursuing the Law of Sleep=
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yle=3D'FONT-FAMILY: Verdana'=3EMy wife managed slightly more, but the tensio=
n in the house was high=2E=2E I had work deadlines to meet and had great dif=
ficulty concentrating=2E My physical body required significant oxygen inputs=
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ify'=3E<SPAN style=3D'FONT-FAMILY: Verdana'=3EBy weeks end I was a snorting =
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dana'=3EI believe this experience is not uncommon to fathers, probably in no=
t the same circumstances, but the resultant is a heaviness of attitude settl=
ing in to take over your position as Father of the Family=2E<o:p=3E</o:p=3E<=
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'=3E<SPAN style=3D'FONT-FAMILY: Verdana'=3EIn business, particularly, survey=
s of consumers are conducted regularly to ascertain their status - happy ,ag=
reeable, meeting expectations, satisfied, suggestions for improvement=2E<o:p=
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tyle=3D'FONT-FAMILY: Verdana'=3EYes, we may have been wronged, used, lied to=
, taken for granted =96 but we have been there and our children have not=2E<=
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ve<SPAN style=3D'mso-spacerun: yes'=3E=A0 </SPAN=3Ean enormous influence and=
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n be constructive or destructive=2E</SPAN=3E</P=3E<P class=3DMsoNormal style=
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a'=3EWe can not have a great relationship with our wives and not haven one w=
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0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US'=3Ebalance the pressures that we are under by =
telling our wives how we feel, if you can=92t, tell a friend (male) and get =
it off your chest=2E Men tend to internalise=2E=A0<BR=3E</SPAN=3E<SPAN lang=3D=
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idi-font-size: 10=2E0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US'=3Eask our children what t=
hey think and feel ( newsletter 12-18/11/02)</SPAN=3E<SPAN style=3D'FONT-FAM=
ILY: Verdana'=3E<o:p=3E</o:p=3E</SPAN=3E</LI=3E</OL=3E<P class=3DMsoNormal s=
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N-US'=3EIt is not a fathers position to be right all the time - it is his po=
sition to accept that he is the <I=3E<STRONG=3Ebinding element</STRONG=3E</I=
=3E in a family; he is the head of the household=2E<o:p=3E</o:p=3E</SPAN=3E<=
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0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US'=3EThis is an awesome responsibility in a worl=
d that is forever changed=2E<o:p=3E</o:p=3E</SPAN=3E</P=3E<P class=3DMsoNorm=
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ur families' notice what we do and say every day=2E Even with all the circum=
stances around us a smile to them signifies you are still there no matter wh=
at=2E</SPAN=3E</P=3E<P class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-=
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'=3E<SPAN lang=3DEN-US style=3D'FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 10=
=2E0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US'=3EOnly recently my wife said to me when I =
was struggling with big issues =96 just give me a smile that=92s all I want=2E=
<o:p=3E</o:p=3E</SPAN=3E</P=3E<P class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'MARGIN: 0cm 0cm =
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</SPAN=3E</P=3E<P class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN=
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-size: 10=2E0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US'=3EA smile demonstrates that regar=
dless of circumstances you connect with your family=2E </SPAN=3E</P=3E<P cla=
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ansi-language: EN-US'=3EGet your family smiling =96 it starts with fathers=2E=
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GN: justify'=3E<SPAN lang=3DEN-US style=3D'FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Ver=
dana; mso-ansi-language: EN-US'=3ERon Hellyer has been married to Margaret f=
or 23 years and is the<SPAN style=3D'mso-spacerun: yes'=3E=A0 </SPAN=3Efathe=
r of five children (plus extras)=2E Ron is management consultant based in Br=
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<a name=3D'anchor7'=3E</a=3E<b=3EThought for the Week</b=3E</font=3E<font fa=
ce=3D'verdana' size=3D2=3E<br=3E<br=3E<div=3E<img src=3D'http://www=2Ebosweb=
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ic Sans MS' size=3D5=3EThe best things you can give children, next to good h=
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bgcolor=3D'#ffffff' nowrap=3E<img src=3D'http://www=2Ebosweb=2Ecom=2Eau/emai=
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td=3E</tr=3E<tr=3E<td width=3D578 height=3D25 bgcolor=3D'#ffffff' background=
=3D'http://www=2Ebosweb=2Ecom=2Eau/email=5Fblast/templates/fathers/template1=
/Generic/fade=2Egif'=3E<blockquote=3E<p=3E<font size=3D3 face=3D'Verdana, Ar=
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justify'=3E<FONT face=3DVerdana size=3D2=3E<STRONG=3EA War in a Manger</STRO=
NG=3E</FONT=3E</P=3E<P class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-=
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justify'=3E<FONT face=3DVerdana size=3D2=3EThis was the headline in the Adel=
aide Advertiser this week in an article by Jason Keyser=2E=A0The article sta=
ted=A0' Christmas will be far from happy in Bethlehem=2E=2E=2EIn Manger Squa=
re there is no Christmas tree, decorations, few pilgrims and little cheer an=
d goodwill=2E=A0 Israeli soldiers are on patrol at the birthplace of the Chr=
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: justify'=3E<FONT face=3DVerdana size=3D2=3EWe in Australia are extremely f=
ortunate to have the freedom and liberty in our lifestyle and culture=2E It =
is such a precious thing=2E </FONT=3E</P=3E<P class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'MAR=
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face=3DVerdana size=3D2=3EThis week the Australian Broadcasting Authority re=
leased information for parents on Kids on chat lines and cyberspace usage=2E=
=2E They have a great website for Cyberkids and the information is very usef=
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NT face=3DVerdana size=3D2=3E<STRONG=3EMore from the Nations Capital</STRONG=
=3E </FONT=3E</DIV=3E<P=3E<FONT face=3DVerdana size=3D2=3ELast week we repor=
ted on the parliamentary panel on equal parenting=2E This panel was organise=
d by MP Ken Ticehurst and his assistant Kevin Glancy=2E The Fatherhood Found=
ation only called for case studies and letters of support to be sent to Kevi=
n Glancy=2E Last weeks report might give the false imptression that we playe=
d a major role in the organisation of the event=2E</FONT=3E</P=3E<P=3E<FONT =
face=3DVerdana size=3D2=3EPlease forgive us for any confusion caused=2E All =
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