It may be a little early to start thing about Christmas gifts, but if you have a stay-at-home dad, SAHD-to-be or wannabe SAHD in your life, consider pre-ordering The Ultimate Stay-at-Home Dad manual, by Kansas City Dads Group member Shannon Carpenter. Subtitled Your Essential Manual for Being an Awesome Full-Time Father, the book uses some of the best advice and wisdom Carpenter compiled from his fellow dads’ group members and other fathers he met along the way. The book, filled with many of his hilarious personal observations from 12 years as a stay-at-home father, aims to compile … [Read more...]
Reconciling Stay-At-Home Parenting When Drive to Work Success Kicks In
Working, making money, and being a productive part of the economy and the world. I believe most men have this drive. But what does this man do if his wife makes more money? What happens if he becomes a stay-at-home-dad? Would his ego be helped with a part-time job? What if that part-time job became bigger and bigger? How would his priorities and identity as an at-home dad change if he were to have the opportunity to enjoy business and economic success that can be parlayed into a fulfilling career? I’ve had to answer all these questions the past few years. That last question, though, I'm … [Read more...]
HomeDadCon 2021 Set to Bring At-Home Fathers Together Oct. 14-16
Organizers of an annual conference for at-home fathers will again try to host an in-person event in 2021. The National At-Home Dad Network recently put tickets on sale for HomeDadCon 2021, scheduled for Oct 14-16 in Cincinnati, the same locale where the previous year's conference was set to take place. Health and safety concerns from the COVID-19 pandemic caused the nonprofit organization to scrub the autumn 2020 in-person event for an online only version dubbed DadCon@Home 2020. The 2020 event would have been the support-and-advocacy network's 25th annual in-person gathering. Instead, … [Read more...]
College Roommates Bad? Trying Living with My Children
The more I’m around my kids, the more I feel like I’m back in college. My children remind me an awful lot about what it was like to live with my old (and not so great) roommates. Dishes. My kids leave their dishes wherever they took their last bite of food. Whether it be the couch, the floor in front of the television or the kitchen table, it’s easy to figure out where my child or former college roommates ate their last meal. And why is there a plate in the bathroom? Gross. Cups. How many cups do my kids need at bedtime? If you use my daughter’s room as an example, the answer is nine. … [Read more...]
Remote Learning: Is it Causing Your Kid to Fall Behind in School?
If you’re working full-time from home during the pandemic while also adjusting to your kids being there around the clock thanks to remote learning, you’re probably seeing sides of them you hadn’t before. You might see them slacking off a bit in school since they don’t have a teacher there to keep them on track. They might be taking breaks a little too frequently or walking away from their work whenever they get bored. To an extent, you can’t blame them. You’re probably facing many of these challenges yourself. Having so much freedom tempts you to do things you wouldn't otherwise since … [Read more...]
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