Category: father

How an Author and a Grieving Father Found Unexpected Healing Through Playing a Game of Catch

On the morning of September 20, 2020, author Ethan Bryan sat down in the rear of Mudhouse Coffee in downtown Springfield, Missouri. Bryan sipped a mocha. The smell of sizzling sausage and bell peppers drifted out of the kitchen, just a few feet away. Normally, Bryan would be writing, but today was different. He’d recently…


Son Sings ‘When You and I Were Young, Maggie’ to His 98-Year-Old Father

A heartwarming moment when a father is taken back in time by his son’s singing. Helen Price, 58, was visiting her father with her brother John O’Beirne, 66, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Helen decided to record her brother singing one of his father’s favorite songs, ‘When You and I Were Young, Maggie’,…


Son Drops Everything to Care for Father With Parkinson’s Disease, Sparing Him From Going to a Nursing Home

When his father, who has advanced Parkinson’s disease, lost the ability to live by himself, a California man returned to his childhood home in Ohio, pledging to take care of his father until the end. Josip Markus, 48, told The Epoch Times: “It was clear that he needed my support. My father said, ‘I would rather go…


Life With Father (1947)

A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost. Credit: Public Domain Movies – BUY Jan 6 DVD: www.epochtv.shop/product-page/dvd-the-real-story-of-january-6, Promo Code “EpochTV” for 20% off. – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature Films: www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button below the video…


‘An Outstanding Young Man’: Teen Escorts His Sisters to Daddy-Daughter Dance After Their Dad Passes Away

After his father passed away, a thoughtful teen tried to fill in his dad’s shoes by escorting his sisters to the annual daddy-daughter dance. “He showed that his father raised an outstanding young man who will be an excellent father himself someday,” Shane Santana, an attendee at the dance, told The Epoch Times. DJ and…


‘Hardship of Life’: Powerful Photo Helps Change the Lives of Syrian War Refugee Family

After befriending a Syrian war refugee family living in his hometown of Hatay, Turkey, a photographer planned a life-changing photoshoot with the father and son, both of whom have lost limbs in the ongoing civil war. One photo turned out so powerful that it won an award and got the family the help they needed and…


Steamboat Bill (1928)

The effete son of a cantankerous riverboat captain comes to join his father’s crew. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature Films: www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on “My List.” Follow EpochTV on social media: Twitter: twitter.com/EpochTVus Rumble: rumble.com/c/EpochTV…


4 Ways For Fathers to Cope With Aging

Getting older is going to come with many unwelcome surprises. New aches and pains in places you never knew were possible, a sudden appreciation for 5:00 a.m., and the lack of a desire to shave your now pirate-esque beard. Being a father, though, means being indestructible in the eyes of your children, no matter how…


Father Invents Triple-Leaf-Blower Go-kart Machine

Household chores are no longer boring when you have an inventive dad! …


Oprah Winfrey’s Father Dies Days After Family Celebration

Oprah Winfrey’s father, Vernon, has died, the daytime talk show host said on her Instagram account on Saturday, just days after she said the family was able to honor her father. “Yesterday with family surrounding his bedside, I had the sacred honor witnessing the man responsible for my life, take his last breath. We could…