The new season of the Modern Dads Podcast kicks off with Devon Bandison, a longtime member of our NYC Dads Group and a successful leadership coach, discussing his new book, Fatherhood is Leadership: Your Playbook for Success, Self-Leadership, and a Richer Life. Bandison, a father of three, shares how his life experience helped him to create a set of tools that fathers can use to overcome their own challenges in work, marriage and parenting. Fatherhood is Leadership, which is also the name of a successful podcast he hosts, covers his strategy for shifting from a traditional … [Read more...]
About Matt Schneider
Make Television Watching a Team Activity for Your Children
Disclosure: I am part of Netflix's #StreamTeam and I have agreed to regularly share some of my favorite things about Netflix in exchange for some goodies and experiences. As always, the thoughts written here are my own. Just like my wife and I try to watch the same shows at the end of our busy days (I like to call it Date Night, Every Night), we prefer our two boys watch the shows together rather than retreating to their own devices every evening. It was easy when they were younger. For their first viewing years, our eldest (by three years) controlled the television because he was the … [Read more...]
Songs, Music that Our City Dads Love to Parent By
Another season of our popular The Modern Dads Podcast concludes with a very special musical episode. Five of our City Dads from around the country join us to discuss the songs that have inspired and informed their parenting. City Dads Group columnist Whit Honea discusses the cover of a classic Rodgers and Hammerstein tune, done by the late Ray Charles, that he uses to get his kids going in the morning. NYC Dad James Lopez, who blogs at Cool4Dads / #FatherhoodIsLit, shares some of the parenting lessons he uses from a song he loved in his childhood, the Notorious B.I.G. tune … [Read more...]
Dads Can Help Moms in ‘Fifth Trimester’ of Re-entering Workforce
What should a father do if his wife wants to return to her job after she gives birth? Support her all he can and figure out how to make the marital partnership work for each of you, says author Lauren Smith Brody. Brody gives advice on how to achieve those goals on the latest edition of The Modern Dads Podcast where she discusses her latest book, The Fifth Trimester: The Working Mom’s Guide to Style, Sanity, & Big Success After Baby. Based on interviews and input from more than 700 moms who work in a wide variety of occupations, Brody's book is not all opinion and anecdote as she … [Read more...]
Couple’s Gender Role Reversal Creates ‘ZagZig Parenting’ Book
We write a lot about breaking gender roles when it comes to parenting. Now we talk about it, too. Joining us on the Modern Dads Podcast are Kori Reed and Mike Becker, husband and wife and co-authors of the book, ZagZig Parenting: (Mis)Adventures of a Career-Driven Mom and a Stay-at-Home Dad. ZagZig Parenting, released this week, takes you on a journey through the married couple’s contemporary perspective on being a mom and dad when the traditional parenting roles are reversed. Using comical vignettes, they share their differences, struggles, mistakes and failures in ZagZig. They even … [Read more...]
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