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Celebrating Fatherhood for the first time, the ups, downs and everything in-between. Our goal is to inspire Fathers to be the best they can be.

The First Time Father is a platform dedicated to Fatherhood; the ups, downs and everything in between. Every day there’s Fathers out there striving to be their best – and we want to celebrate them and tell their stories. This is a platform where first time Fathers can come to share, ask questions, learn, teach, tell jokes, give advice get advice and just connect with other fathers. Our mission is to empower The First Time Father, particularly Father's of colour.

02/18/2022

For Ep 03 of with , we linked up with . Sharrief is a husband, father of two, a high school business teacher and huge sneaker lover. He has developed a great relationship with his students over the years and is known as the "cool teacher".

Sharrief is serious about his Hip Hop and loves promoting the culture through fashion, art and music. He is all about family, and positivity. His kids and his students look up to him like a hero – he’s made a huge impact on their lives and deserves to be celebrated.

This we salute you brother - thank you for the dedication you give to your family and students and for being a role model for the next generation!

02/11/2022

For our next episode of with , we sat down Michael Husbands. is a husband, father of two, a barber and a HUGE . He is extremely active in the community as he’s been cutting hair for families for 27 years and coaches’ junior basketball at a local high school. Mike is passionate about sneakers; he keeps his son and daughter laced in the newest kicks giving them everything he couldn’t have growing up. means everything to Mike - everything he does, he does for his kids. This , we salut you Mike! Keep building that foundation. 💪🏽🙏🏽👏🏽

02/04/2022

We're ecstatic to announce our partnership with to celebrate with our campaign. This month we are celebrating the often forgotten hero, the Black Father. We will be sharing the stories of a few fathers who are dedicated to their families and doing influential things in their community. Yes, and some of them have a thing or two for sneakers! We teamed up with Footlocker Canada to help a few fathers "Feel Like a Kid, Again", and thank them for being positive role models, pushing forward for their children and the next generation of fathers to come.

Episode 1, - an actor, director, producer and Father of 2 from the GTA. Troy is a man of God and dedicates his time to his family and to building his production company to help tell stories by black voices. He was never a big sneakerhead growing up, but things may have just changed.

Directed & Produced:
Photo: .creative
DOP:
Special shout to for helping make this happen. 👊🏽🙏🏽

09/28/2021

Happy National Son’s Day. You make me so proud my boy.
🙏🏽💪🏽🥰

07/10/2021

Day 1 of Monty’s Soccer Team. Day 1 of me coaching. No idea what I’m doing, but life’s about learning. Lesss go!

06/20/2021

This tho!!! Shout out to my wife for getting this for me! As a kid I used to tape the Simpson’s and pause it frame by frame to draw every one of the characters. This means a lot 😁🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

Happy Fathers Day to all the dope dads out there doing more than what’s required everyday! We’re helping shape the next generation to be better, smarter, healthier and more conscious than we ever were.

06/18/2021

I used to be a pretty decent player and I’m still a major fan. But, my basketball career came to a really odd and life changing halt when my teachers went on strike and I lost my final high-school season. All those years of hard work just snatched from me. After a lot of thought and sleepless nights I ended up going to University and playing on a team I really wasn’t passionate about, which resulted in me quitting the team and walking away from the game I love after my first year there. But, it was there I also ended up finding my passion in the arts and ended up getting an academic scholarship vs the athletic one I had been chasing all those years.

That being said, I never planned to push sports on my son for that reason, even though I secretly wished he'd be into basketball lol! But, then it happened... he started dribbling a ball, then passing, then shooting on his home net. Then wanting to go to the court and practice his dribbling. Can't even lie, I love it! But, as much as I love it, if he chooses to put down the ball and pick something else up I’m ok with that too.

I often hear conversations of parents trying to push their kids to live out their dreams. I may have even been guilty of it at one time myself, but I think it’s important to let your kids identify what they are passionate about - find their path and then help create the best opportunities for them to excel in what they want to do. And if that aligns with your dreams then amazing, if not, still amazing… Just a parenting thought that this photo brought out in me - I know how many years I put into ball. The invaluable lessons and work ethic I got out of it and the streets it saved me from. Seeing this photo made me happy, but made me think about how much pressure I want to put on him to be great at basketball. At least at an early age. For now I just want him to have fun and experience becoming better at something.

As a Father these moments are precious, so glad my wife captured this - I’ll tell ya, if he does choose to play ball, somewhere down the line I’ll have proof of where he got his handles from! Ayyyyeeeee!

03/12/2021

Real talk. That’s when it all changes.... Happy Friday ya’ll. 👊🏽🙏🏽 💪🏽

03/05/2021

Shout out to the brother for this amazing piece. I’ve often stared at my son sleeping and wondering what in the world he is dreaming about. Great interpretation from a talented artist. 💪🏽

Repost “If I have a monument in this world, it is my son.” - Maya Angelou. This quote resonated with Curtis Talwst Santiago as he drew ‘Boogie Nights’, the newest Creative Time comic. In this piece, he depicts an intimate yet familiar parental scene as he watches his newborn sleeping and wonders what he is dreaming about.

The Canadian-Trinidadian artist’s practice involves mixed-media miniatures, drawings using a mix of graphite with paint, charcoal, pastel, and aerosol paint, as well as performance. Santiago studied as an apprentice of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun. He has exhibited internationally at venues such as The Drawing Center, New York, NY; The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY; The New Museum, New York, NY; The Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; and the SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, among others. Considering himself decentralized, Santiago is currently living and working in Munich, Germany.

12/21/2020

Are you looking to make a charitable donation before the end of the year? The First Time Father is proud to help organize and donate funds for SickKids during this time of crisis for all Canadian hospitals, your support of SickKids Foundation has never been more important. Your donations through this page will fund the highest priorities of SickKids.

SickKids Foundation created a donation page for us, which you can donate directly. By supporting the highest priority needs, you are allowing SickKids to allocate funds when and where they need the most, providing the most flexibility with your gift. These gifts fund breakthrough research, essential equipment and will help support the building a new state-of the-art hospital. Click the link in our bio to donate today.

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