My 14-year-old daughter and I were chatting at dinner the other night, and I was getting my daily news roundup about her day: school, friends, teachers, whatnot. In the course of our conversation, I asked how her friend Abby was doing. When I did, my daughter leveled me with a stern, reprimanding look.Now that we’re into the teen years, I get that look a lot. It usually means I’ve said or done something irretrievably dumb.“What?” I asked.“Do you realize what you just said?” she asked with a frown.“What? What did I say?”“You referred to them as ‘she.’”“Them who? I was … [Read more...]
Study: Millennial Dads Happier With At-Home Roles
If advertising is a legitimate measure of a society’s current desires, targets and priorities, then fathers are indeed a desired, targeted priority, according to a new study.Yahoo, alongside strategy firm Audience Theory, recently released “The New Face of Fatherhood,” a study that delves into the difference between modern Millennial and Gen X fatherhood. In it, they identify who the modern father is, how they see themselves, and what their relationship is to things like tech and advertising.We've noted before that you can find more active fathers in commercials now than ever before, … [Read more...]
Email Amazon CEO to Change ‘Amazon Mom’ Name
For the past week, hundreds of members of the dad blogging community, their friends and their families have been using social media to petition online retailer Amazon to change the name of its "Amazon Mom" program in the United States to the more inclusive "Amazon Family." The program, which offers discounts on child care products, already goes by this name in the United Kingdom, France, Japan and Germany among others. It is unclear why the program doesn't use this name in the United States.Despite the thousands of tweets, blog posts and Facebook posts and numerous reports by major media … [Read more...]
Modern Masculinity Discussed on Podcast
Are today's fathers still being constrained by the "man box" of traditional stereotypes? How can today's dads overcome these outdated ideas on being a man to live life to the fullest.Mark Greene, executive editor of The Good Men Project, discusses these things and his new book Remaking Manhood: The Modern Masculinity Movement, Stories From the Front Lines of Change with City Dads Group on our latest Modern Dads Podcast. Greene writes and speaks on culture, society, family and fatherhood. His work is a timely and balanced look at the life affirming changes emerging from the modern … [Read more...]
Stay-at-Home Dads are Real Men
Oh, you stay at home? You must be gay.You're a stay-at-home dad? When are you going to get your balls back?Man up. Stop being such a pussy.Looks like this dad likes shopping more than his wife. How gay is he?These words were spoken by people with some skewed idea of what it means to be a "real man." Believe it or not, the person who asked if a stay-at-home dad was gay was a woman. The second comment came from a man who was interacting with another stay-at-home dad on the playground.Why does the choice to be a stay-at-home father instantly lead to a discussion about manhood? … [Read more...]