Someone at the park handed me their phone number today. I’m planning on calling them tonight! If you are a little confused at this point that’s understandable. I am a 35-year-old man with an amazing wife of six years and three awesome kids. Why am I still getting girl’s phone numbers? I never said I was getting a girl's phone number: the digits I’m getting these days are of fellow stay-at-home dads. If you thought it was awkward to ask a girl for her phone number in a bar when you were 21, try asking another grown man for his phone number at the playground. It is not just awkward, but a … [Read more...]
HomeDadCon 2018 Early-Bird Tickets on Sale Until August 16
Time is running out to purchase a discounted ticket and book an on-site hotel room for the National At-Home Dad Network's 2018 conference, aka HomeDadCon 2018, scheduled for Sept. 13-15, in Orlando, Fla. The convention, now in its 23rd year, brings together fathers who are their family’s primary caregiver. HomeDadCon offers them "professional development" as men who embrace parenting as their most important job, allows them to network with other active and involved dads, and also gives these full-time parents a chance to relax. To that last point, HomeDadCon 2018 ticket holders have already … [Read more...]
‘Incredibles 2’ Features Super Shift of Family Dynamics: A Stay-at-Home Dad
Between the mid-century architecture and space-age technology of Pixar’s Incredibles 2, the long-awaited sequel to the 2004 blockbuster The Incredibles, we find the timeless tale of a family struggling in its quest to find work-life balance. Yes, when it comes to household budgets and raising babies, even superheroes get the blues. The tale is indeed timeless for several reasons, most notably, there is not a gap in the Incredibles/Parr family’s storyline as it picks up exactly where we left them in the previous film. Additionally, subtle shades of Stepford in Metroville, where conforming … [Read more...]
Parenting Sick Kids: The Art of Juggling (Vomit) Bowls Atop a Unicycle
An acrobat known as Red Panda has been a staple of basketball halftime shows across the country for more than 20 years. I once saw her in person at an NBA game years before I had children. I was stunned by her simple in concept, yet seemingly impossible in practice, act. In short, she rides a very tall unicycle, places an increasing numbers of bowls onto her foot and leg, flips the bowls into the air, and catches them in a stack on her head. She never stops peddling her unicycle and she rarely ever drops a bowl. Her performances are mesmerizing. But because I was a single, child-free … [Read more...]
Lower Parenting Bar for ‘SuperMom’ Status, Raise it for ‘SuperDad’
I sometimes feel I write ad nauseum about how much tougher at-home dads have it compared to at-home moms. Not because of the difficulty with the job itself, although I guess you could say women are still often “groomed” for it in a lot of ways from a young age whereas men typically have a much steeper learning curve. Rather, I mean in regards to what sorts of resources are available, and how much support and understanding one gets in choosing to stay home with a child. At-home dads have come a long way, definitely, but we have much further to go. However, today I’d like to talk about … [Read more...]
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