Hafla food idea ? enough with the hummus, try Karkaday! ? Jade ...

25 Jun 2012

by jadebellydance in Belly Dance, Food and Drink Tags: Belly Dance, bellydancing, Karkaday, Karkade, Hibiscus, Tea, Egyptian, Hafla

Instead of adding yet another serve of Hummus and flat bread to the 10 others on the table at your next Hafla, consider brewing up some Karkaday! Hibiscus tea is ubiquitous in Egypt and a refreshing drink often fondly remembered by returned travellers. Karkaday is reputed to have been a favoured drink of the Pharaohs and it is no wonder.

Karkaday I bought in Egypt

An herbal tea drink consumed both hot and cold, it?s loaded with flavonoids which may:

• Help support memory and concentration

• Boost the effectiveness of vitamin C
• Help promote a healthy heart and immune system
• Support blood pressure and cholesterol levels already within the normal range
• Help you manage weight challenges

Karkaday is Hibiscus tea, an infusion made from the calyces (sepals) of the Hibiscus sabdariffa flower. It is popular throughout the world but goes by a variety of names. In Italy, Egypt and the Sudan? it is referred to as Karkaday (spelling varies),? but elsewhere the names vary. It is referred to as roselle (another common name for the hibiscus flower), flor de Jamaica in Latin America, Chai Kujarat in Iraq, Chai Torsh in Iran, gumamela in the Philippines, bissap or wonjo in West Africa, sorrel in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, red sorrelin the wider Caribbean, and other names in other regions.

This is what the loose leaves look like.

You can buy hibiscus tea (or whatever it is called in your region) already made up as tea bags from a health food shop, herbalist or sometimes even from the supermarket. It can be served as a simple infusion (i.e. pour hot water on it) or work on an easy variation to impress your belly dance buddies. Hibiscus tea has a tantalisingly fresh, cranberry-like flavour and an attractive, deep red colour. Many drinkers like to add a sweetener like sugar to the beverage to reduce the tartness but that is a matter of taste.

Here is a suggested recipe that would give you approx. 14 cups full but you can make just one cup for yourself easily enough. Just put a small amount of hibiscus in an infuser (a use a tea bag), put it in your cup, pour on hot water from kettle and add sugar if its not sweet enough for you!

Karkaday Ingredients

• 1 cup karkaday ?loose leaves (or hibiscus tea bags if not available)
• 1 gallon (3.8 Litres) water.
• ? cup Sugar (optional)
• 1t orange flower water (optional)

Cooking Instructions

• Boil water in a large saucepan.
• Add karkaday.
• Stir in sugar till it dissolves.
• For a stronger, redder tea ? Leave for an hour.
• Drain karkaday with a fine holed sieve to get rid of leaves.
• Either cool in refrigerator or serve hot.

?

?I think I could do with a cuppa while I think out my next move?

You can find other hibiscus recipes here

?No need to wait for a Hafla though, next time you need a quick way to quench your thirst, why not try the tea used by the Pharaohs?

Have you tried karkaday? What?s your favourite recipe? Hot or cold? Comment below.

?Today?s Make up Monday post didn?t happen due to internet problems I had to sort out when I should have been writing so I am posting this piece that I wrote a few weeks ago in its place. Stay tuned for more upcoming make-up posts and a piece on my adventures in Perth at the Western Australian Middle Eastern Dance Festival. Don?t forget to follow so you don?t miss out!

Like this:

Be the first to like this.

google glasses kim kardashian and kanye west henrik stenson jobs act greg mortenson jim marshall died 2013 toyota avalon

Business News and Economic News: Top Stories

UN honours local groups with Equator Prize for sustainable development work

UN News Centre ???Translate This Article
25 June 2012

21 June 2012 - Twenty-five local and indigenous groups were honoured on Wednesday evening by the United Nations for their outstanding contributions to sustainable development.

'Tonight's event is about honouring the great innovation and leadership which is coming from the world's local communities,' said the Administrator of the UN Development Programme (UNDP), Helen Clark, at the Equator Prize gala ceremony in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Awarded by UNDP's Equator Initiative, the Prize recognizes outstanding local initiatives that are working to advance sustainable development solutions for people, nature and resilient communities? issues also at the heart of the discussions underway at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rioplus20) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The winners included a forest protection community initiative in Fiji, an Egyptian medicinal plant association that cultivates species to create alternative livelihoods, a women's artisan group in Colombia that recycles plastic and reduces waste, and an enterprise in Swaziland that teaches women how to cultivate seeds and offers environmental education.

'Organizations which win the Equator Prize show through their actions how the sustainable management of ecosystems is not only good for the environment, but empowers local people and increases their capacities and livelihood options,' Miss Clark said.

'Moving forward from Rio 20 it will be critical to acknowledge the central role of community-based organizations and local initiatives in delivering sustainable development solutions,' she added.

This year's winners were selected from 812 nominations submitted by communities in 113 countries across the developing world. The 25 winners will each receive $5,000, with 10 selected for special recognition and a total of $20,000.

The ceremony was hosted by renowned Brazilian musician Gilberto Gil, and counted with the presence of other leaders in business and sustainable development, such as the founder of the Grameen Bank and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Muhammad Yunus, the founder of the Virgin Group, Richard Branson, and a US actor and UN Goodwill Ambassador on Biodiversity, Edward Norton.

This year marks the tenth anniversary of the Equator Prize, which is awarded biennially.

More than 40,000 people?including heads of State and government, parliamentarians, mayors, UN officials, business and civil society leaders?are attending Rioplus20, between 20-22 June. It seeks to shape new policies to promote global prosperity, reduce poverty and advance social equity and environmental protection.

Every day Global Good News documents the rise of a better quality of life dawning in the world from good news reported by the press; and highlights the need for introducing Natural Law based-Total Knowledge based-programmes to bring the support of Nature to every individual, raise the quality of life of every society, and create a lasting state of world peace.

mls superdraft school cancellations bald barbie peoples choice awards deplorable mls draft khloe kardashian

Google Ventures-Backed Cliqr Brings Old-School Business Apps To The Cloud

In all the talk of cloud computing, Cliqr Technologies CEO Gaurav Manglik says there's one area of enterprise technology that's been sitting out the transition ? business applications. The cloud has led to an explosion of new apps, but (to pick two random examples) chip design and medical imaging apps are still running on old-fashioned servers.

seal and heidi klum drew peterson untouchable herman cain south carolina palmetto rob lowe fox news sanctum

Lemonade feat Psychemagik + Stripes - The Nest, London, GB

Lemonade feat Psychemagik + Stripes

Venue:

The Nest

Date:

Sat, 23/06/2012 21:00

Please Note:

Tickets guarantee entry before midnight only.

mac virus santorum drops out bby zimmerman website miami marlins marlins marlins

Suu Kyi: Nobel Peace Prize shattered my isolation

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi briefs the media after a meeting with Norway Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg at the Norway government guest house in Oslo, Friday, June 15, 2012. Suu Kyi formally accept the Nobel Peace Prize on Saturday June 16, 2012, in the Norwegian capital, that originally thrust her into the global limelight two decades ago. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi briefs the media after a meeting with Norway Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg at the Norway government guest house in Oslo, Friday, June 15, 2012. Suu Kyi formally accept the Nobel Peace Prize on Saturday June 16, 2012, in the Norwegian capital, that originally thrust her into the global limelight two decades ago. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, holds her speech during the Peace Nobel Prize lecture at the city hall in Oslo, Saturday, June 16, 2012. Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi Nobel peace prize laureate, formally accepts the prize that thrust her into the global limelight two decades ago. Suu Kyi says the Nobel Peace Prize she won while under house arrest 21-years ago helped to shatter her sense of isolation and ensured that the world would demand democracy in her military-controlled homeland. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, center, receives the applause from the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Thorbjorn Jagland, left, and deputy chairwoman Kaci Kullmann Five after her speech at the Peace Nobel Prize lecture at the city hall in Oslo, Saturday, June 16, 2012. Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi Nobel peace prize laureate, formally accepts the prize that thrust her into the global limelight two decades ago. Suu Kyi says the Nobel Peace Prize she won while under house arrest 21-years ago helped to shatter her sense of isolation and ensured that the world would demand democracy in her military-controlled homeland. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

A boy takes pictures of leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a concert to honor her after her speech at the Peace Nobel Prize lecture at the city hall in Oslo, Saturday, June 16, 2012. Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi Nobel peace prize laureate, formally accepted the prize that thrust her into the global limelight two decades ago. Suu Kyi says the Nobel Peace Prize she won while under house arrest 21-years ago helped to shatter her sense of isolation and ensured that the world would demand democracy in her military-controlled homeland. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Norway King Harald and Queen Sonya congratulate Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, right, after her speech at the Peace Nobel Prize lecture at the city hall in Oslo, Saturday, June 16, 2012. Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi Nobel peace prize laureate, formally accepted the prize that thrust her into the global limelight two decades ago. Suu Kyi says the Nobel Peace Prize she won while under house arrest 21-years ago helped to shatter her sense of isolation and ensured that the world would demand democracy in her military-controlled homeland. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

OSLO, Norway (AP) ? Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi declared Saturday that the Nobel Peace Prize she won while under house arrest 21 years ago helped to shatter her sense of isolation and ensured that the world would demand democracy in her military-controlled homeland.

Suu Kyi received two standing ovations inside Oslo's city hall as she gave her long-delayed acceptance speech to the Norwegian Nobel Committee in front of Norway's King Harald, Queen Sonja and about 600 dignitaries. The 66-year-old champion of political freedom praised the power of her 1991 Nobel honor both for saving her from the depths of personal despair and shining an enduring spotlight on injustices in distant Myanmar.

"Often during my days of house arrest, it felt as though I were no longer a part of the real world," she said to a silent chamber, which was lined with rainbows of freshly cut zinnias and towers of orchids and gladiolas. "There was the house which was my world. There was the world of others who also were not free but who were together in prison as a community. And there was the world of the free. Each one was a different planet pursuing its own separate course in an indifferent universe.

"What the Nobel Peace Prize did was to draw me once again into the world of other human beings, outside the isolated area in which I lived, to restore a sense of reality to me. ... And what was more important, the Nobel Prize had drawn the attention of the world to the struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma. We were not going to be forgotten," she said during her 40-minute oration.

Suu Kyi, who since winning freedom in 2010 has led her National League for Democracy party into opposition in Myanmar's parliament, offered cautious support for the first tentative steps toward democratic reform in her country. But she said progress would depend both on maintaining foreign pressure on the army-backed government ? and on carefully managing the ethnic tensions threatening to tear apart the country.

"If I advocate cautious optimism, it is not because I do not have faith in the future, but because I do not want to encourage blind faith. Without faith in the future, without the conviction that democratic values and fundamental human rights are not only necessary but possible for our society, our movement could not have been sustained throughout the destroying years," she said, referring to the past two decades since Myanmar's military leaders rejected her party's overwhelming triumph in 1990 elections, one year after Suu Kyi's own imprisonment.

Thorbjorn Jagland, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, introduced Suu Kyi as a leader of "awe-inspiring tenacity, sacrifice and firmness of principle."

"In your isolation, you have become a moral leader for the whole world," he said from the podium, turning to the seated Suu Kyi.

"Your voice became increasingly clear the more the military regime tried to isolate you. Your cause mobilized your people and prevailed over a massive military junta. Whenever your name is mentioned or when you speak, your words bring new energy and hope to the entire world," Jagland said to applause.

Suu Kyi, in a traditional Burmese gown of purple, lilac and ivory, offered only a stoic Mona Lisa smile at the end of her speech, greeted with a 2-minute ovation. As on her previous public events this week in Switzerland and Norway, she spoke with a voice of unerring crisp diction but a physical presence bordering on exhaustion.

Yet Saturday's schedule offered no letup. She left the city hall for the neighboring Nobel Peace Center where artists had designed an interactive display called "Mother Democracy" chronicling the highlights of her life. She chatted in Burmese with about 300 refugees from Myanmar granted asylum in Norway.

Then she addressed a public rally that attracted about 10,000 Oslo locals and tourists, many from foreign cruise liners docked along the capital's nearby shoreline. Many waved Norwegian flags and leaflets bearing Suu Kyi's image as she thanked the Norwegian people for giving so many of her countrymen and women sanctuary from oppression.

Smiling with delight as church bells tolled, she also led the crowd in Burmese chants wishing everyone peace and happiness.

"Suu Kyi is such an incredible person. It's a blessing to be here, to get the once-in-a-lifetime chance to see her, to hear her," said Javier Rodriguez, 50, an airline steward from Los Angeles who happened to be on an Oslo layover and staked out the peace center before Suu Kyi's arrival.

"There's so few people in the world willing to sacrifice everything for justice and peace. She's in the same league as Nelson Mandela. Everyone should cherish and honor her," he said.

In her Nobel speech, Suu Kyi related her long experience of state-ordered isolation to key precepts of her Buddhist faith, particularly two forms of suffering: Being forced to live apart from loved ones, and being forced to live among those one dislikes. She referred only fleetingly to the Myanmar authorities' refusal to permit her husband, the Buddhist scholar Michael Aris, to see her from 1995 until his death from cancer in 1999.

Instead she emphasized the continued suffering of others. She won spontaneous applause from the crowd as she appealed for foreign governments to understand that many hundreds of political prisoners remain in Myanmar.

"It is to be feared that because the best known detainees have been released, the remainder, the unknown ones, will be forgotten. I am standing here because I was once a prisoner of conscience. As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many," she said.

She said it was unrealistic to expect the world ever to reach a state of "absolute peace," yet mankind must be compelled to pursue the goal "as a traveler in a desert fixes his eyes on the one guiding star that will lead him to salvation. Even if we do not achieve perfect peace on earth, because perfect peace is not of this earth, common endeavors to gain peace will unite individuals and nations in trust and friendship, and help us to make our human community safer and kinder."

And Suu Kyi praised the value of simple, every-day acts of human kindness as the most powerful force in promoting peace anywhere. " Every kindness I received, small or big," she said, referring to her 15 years of house arrest or imprisonment, "convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world."

On Sunday she heads to the Norwegian city of Bergen to meet charities and members of Norway's Burmese refugee community, then on Monday speaks alongside U2 singer Bono before the pair fly to Dublin, Ireland, for a celebrity-studded concert in her honor. On Tuesday she starts engagements in England, including a visit to her Oxford University alma mater and a speech to the joint houses of Parliament.

___

Online:

Mother Democracy exhibition, http://bit.ly/LZAVhW

Associated Press

bedlam cotto vs margarito 2 cotto vs margarito cotto vs margarito miguel cotto cotto ncaa bowl games

Egypt transition in turmoil on eve of vote

[ [ [['Connery is an experienced stuntman', 2]], 'http://yhoo.it/KeQd0p', '[Slideshow: See photos taken on the way down]', ' ', '630', ' ', ' ', ], [ [['Connery is an experienced stuntman', 7]], ' http://yhoo.it/KpUoHO', '[Slideshow: Death-defying daredevils]', ' ', '630', ' ', ' ', ], [ [['know that we have confidence in', 3]], 'http://yhoo.it/LqYjAX ', '[Related: The Secret Service guide to Cartagena]', ' ', '630', ' ', ' ', ], [ [['We picked up this other dog and', 5]], 'http://yhoo.it/JUSxvi', '[Related: 8 common dog fears, how to calm them]', ' ', '630', ' ', ' ', ], [ [['accused of running a fake hepatitis B', 5]], 'http://bit.ly/JnoJYN', '[Related: Did WH share raid details with filmmakers?]', ' ', '630', ' ', ' ', ], [ [['accused of running a fake hepatitis B', 3]], 'http://bit.ly/KoKiqJ', '[Factbox: AQAP, al-Qaeda in Yemen]', ' ', '630', ' ', ' ', ], [ [['have my contacts on or glasses', 3]], 'http://abcn.ws/KTE5AZ', '[Related: Should the murder charge be dropped?]', ' ', '630', ' ', ' ', ], [ [['have made this nation great as Sarah Palin', 5]], 'http://yhoo.it/JD7nlD', '[Related: Bristol Palin reality show debuts June 19]', ' ', '630', ' ', ' ', ], [ [['have made this nation great as Sarah Palin', 1]], 'http://bit.ly/JRPFRO', '[Related: McCain adviser who vetted Palin weighs in on VP race]', ' ', '630', ' ', ' ', ], [ [['A JetBlue flight from New York to Las Vegas', 3]], 'http://yhoo.it/GV9zpj', '[Related: View photos of the JetBlue plane in Amarillo]', ' ', '630', ' ', ' ', ], [ [['the 28-year-old neighborhood watchman who shot and killed', 15]], 'http://news.yahoo.com/photos/white-house-stays-out-of-teen-s-killing-slideshow/', 'Click image to see more photos', 'http://l.yimg.com/cv/ip/ap/default/120411/martinzimmermen.jpg', '630', ' ', 'AP', ], [ [['Titanic', 7]], 'http://news.yahoo.com/titanic-anniversary/', ' ', 'http://l.yimg.com/a/p/us/news/editorial/b/4e/b4e5ad9f00b5dfeeec2226d53e173569.jpeg', '550', ' ', ' ', ], [ [['He was in shock and still strapped to his seat', 6]], 'http://news.yahoo.com/photos/navy-jet-crashes-in-virginia-slideshow/', 'Click image to see more photos', 'http://l.yimg.com/cv/ip/ap/default/120406/jet_ap.jpg', '630', ' ', 'AP', ], [ [['xxxxxxxxxxxx', 11]], 'http://news.yahoo.com/photos/russian-grannies-win-bid-to-sing-at-eurovision-1331223625-slideshow/', 'Click image to see more photos', 'http://l.yimg.com/a/p/us/news/editorial/1/56/156d92f2760dcd3e75bcd649a8b85fcf.jpeg', '500', ' ', 'AP', ] ]

[ [ [['did not go as far his colleague', 8]], '29438204', '0' ], [ [[' the 28-year-old neighborhood watchman who shot and killed', 4]], '28924649', '0' ], [ [['because I know God protects me', 14], ['Brian Snow was at a nearby credit union', 5]], '28811216', '0' ], [ [['The state news agency RIA-Novosti quoted Rosaviatsiya', 6]], '28805461', '0' ], [ [['measure all but certain to fail in the face of bipartisan', 4]], '28771014', '0' ], [ [['matter what you do in this case', 5]], '28759848', '0' ], [ [['presume laws are constitutional', 7]], '28747556', '0' ], [ [['has destroyed 15 to 25 houses', 7]], '28744868', '0' ], [ [['short answer is yes', 7]], '28746030', '0' ], [ [['opportunity to tell the real story', 7]], '28731764', '0' ], [ [['entirely respectable way to put off the searing constitutional controversy', 7]], '28723797', '0' ], [ [['point of my campaign is that big ideas matter', 9]], '28712293', '0' ], [ [['As the standoff dragged into a second day', 7]], '28687424', '0' ], [ [['French police stepped up the search', 17]], '28667224', '0' ], [ [['Seeking to elevate his candidacy back to a general', 8]], '28660934', '0' ], [ [['The tragic story of Trayvon Martin', 4]], '28647343', '0' ], [ [['Karzai will get a chance soon to express', 8]], '28630306', '0' ], [ [['powerful storms stretching', 8]], '28493546', '0' ], [ [['basic norm that death is private', 6]], '28413590', '0' ], [ [['songwriter also saw a surge in sales for her debut album', 6]], '28413590', '1', 'Watch music videos from Whitney Houston ', 'on Yahoo! Music', 'http://music.yahoo.com' ], [ [['keyword', 99999999999999999999999]], 'videoID', '1', 'overwrite-pre-description', 'overwrite-link-string', 'overwrite-link-url' ] ]

demi moore and ashton kutcher jerry sandusky interview white house shooting internet censorship sveum benetton ads cornucopia

?What a Moron!?? Media's Outlook on Fatherhood | Wayne A. Malcolm

Fatherhood in today?s society

When we think of parenting in today?s society I think it?s safe to say that we usually just think of the mom as the parent who is capable of properly taking care of the children. ?Our media is at fault, from t.v shows, movies, commercials and parenting magazines; ?fathers are always portrayed as being incapable of taking care of their children. ?They show men as being confused, immature, irresponsible and just flat out morons.

The movie Daddy Daycare starring Eddie Murphy is the perfect example of a movie that exemplifies the characteristics that I just mentioned. ?In Daddy Daycare Eddie Murphy?s character (Charlie Hinton) gets laid off from his job, when this happens he is forced to take his son out of an exclusive academy for kids, leading him to the idea of starting a day care ran with his friend played by Jeff Garlin ( Phil). ?There are two important things I want to shed light on from this movie, and they are the fact that both these men were laid off from their jobs which means they can not support their families like ?real men? are supposed to. ?In chapter 7 of?Julia T Wood?s Gendered Lives, she talks about how men are supposed to be when growing up, and two of those traditional characteristics are not being female and being successful. ?First off lets be honest when you think of a day care you never?in-vision men to be working there, and secondly these men were laid off from their jobs so we automatically start thinking how will they provide for their family? ?Throughout this movie the dads just plain and simply look?confused. ?Another movie that shows the characteristics talked about earlier is the movie What to Expect When Expecting. The trailer to the movie What to Expect When Expecting really bothers me because they show men not watching their kids properly, they are in the park throwing around beer,and one character even brags about how he forgot to pick up his kid from day care.

The sit-com dad

Homer Simpson on the left Peter Griffin on right

The Simpsons, Malcolm In the Middle, Family Guy are shows on television we have seen or if not heard about. ?Homer Simpson is the father in The Simpsons, he is shown as being forgetful, loud and ignorant, and always at the bar with his friends; ?Malcolm In the Middle?s dad is played by Bryan Cranston (Hal) and this character is shown to have no back bone, only disciplining his kids when he is forced to back up his wife?s decisions, also when she leaves for any period of time during the show Hal does things like smoking, gambling, blaring loud music and building ?killer? robots. ?In the case of Peter Griffin, the father in Family Guy, he is shown as being a ?moron? ?who is always seeking sex from his wife and talking down to his kids.

(This video clip shows Homer going insane over beer and t.v)

If you were to go back 20 to 30 years and watch the shows on television such as?The Cosby Show and The Brady Bunch the fathers in those shows were shown in an extremely different light, Bill Cosby?s character (Cliff Huxtable) and Robert Reed?s character (Mike Brady) were seen as?lovable?caring fathers who were always there for the kids, they knew what to say in times of need, and then they were also hard working men. So why is there such a big difference between men on television now and from 30 years ago?

Lets take a look at what fathers are really doing

Media definitely plays a part in how we look at men being fathers in our society but what we see on television and what fathers are actually doing are two complete different things. ?When you have a family with both parents and children involved, work schedules start to play a major role in how each parent may spend time with the kids. ?In the journal ?Juggling Jobs and Kids? written by April Bray Field, she goes on to state that ?fathers who take a major responsibility for child care ease the burden of the ?second shift? for employed mothers, and they reduce maternal ?stress from work overload, anxiety about adequate childcare and supervision, and a shortage of time for rest and leisure.? ?With that being said, sometimes it is hard for fathers who do want to take greater responsibility in their children?s lives but because of the time and demand of their jobs it is harder on them.

Lets talk about how the scheduling between the mom and dad directly affect how men go about looking after their kids. ?Bray says that most men are going to be more responsible for looking after the kids if the wife has a part time job and if she has a non-day job where shes going to work at night. ?If the mom is working during the night time then that leaves the dad to have hours at night time to bond with their children and take care of them just like the mom does while he is at work. ?The psychological responsibility, which is the responsibility to plan remember coordinate and follow up on matters involving home and family is usually a role adopted by women, but in the case of a mom working during the night such as a nurse this leave the ?psychological responsibility? duties with the father. ?My aunt in New York is actually a nurse and I remember when I would visit my cousins on summer vacations my uncle did a great job taking care of us while my aunt went to work at night, taking us to the movies, going to the mall and doing activities at home with that were fun.

Our outlook on single fathers

Whenever you think of the single parent lets be honest you think of a mom who was left behind with 2 or 3 kids because her dead beat husband ran off and isn?t taking responsibility for his children. ?Once again the media can be blamed for this perception. ?Why don?t we ever think about the dads who are out there by themselves working and providing for their kids and themselves? ?This may go back to the notion that since men are supposed to be able to take care of themselves and family that they we don?t need acknowledge the single father.

From the journal ?Single Custodial Fathers? Involvement and Parenting: Implications for Outcomes in Emerging Adulthood? by?Bronte-Tinkew, J., Scott, M. E., & Lilja, E; in a study on father involvement with?adolescents, research suggested that?adolescents report greater levels of single-custodial-father involvement than do adolescents with fathers from other family types. ?Bronte-Tinkew, J., Scott, M. E., & Lilja, E go on to say, ?Single custodial fathers spend significantly more time with their children engaging in activities, such as participating in leisure activities, talking, reading, and helping with homework compared to married fathers and step fathers.? ?We can easily try and say that well since they are the only parent, they have no choice but to take responsibility for their children but they could easily be away from their child by dropping the kids off with the grandparents or even leaving them at home while they go out about their own business. ?In the show Two and a Half-Men actor Jon-Cryer plays the role of a single father (Alan Harper), this is actually one of the shows in today?s media that shows a dad who is trying his best to provide for his son. ?Although he may seem flustered at times during the show, in large part because of his brother which is played by Charlie Sheen?s character (Charlie), this is a good example of television showing a different side of today?s father.

Alan single father

This is something I can personally relate to since for a large part of my life it was just my father and I until he re-married. ?Just like the study results said that single fathers were more involved with leisure activities, home work, talking and etc.. my dad was just like that. He had to work during the day time and I would go to a baby sitter after school but when he picked me up after work, everything he did was to make sure I was happy.

Lets stop making assumptions

In conclusion we have seen that our?perspectives on?dads in today?s society is driven by our media and what they show us. ?Just because we see television shows and movies that portray the moronic dad who can?t get out of his own way, lets not just assume every dad is like that. ?If you are a kid who has grown up without a dad how do you think they feel about ?father figures? when they watch the above mentioned movies and t.v shows? Lets take our dads seriously and?dispel the notions seen in our media.

san francisco chronicle kourtney kardashian pregnant kourtney kardashian pregnant chip kelly billy cundiff super bowl tickets superbowl