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...]
14 Lies About Dads
Lies About Dads 1. Dads are bumbling idiots Dads have, as a group, never really been the bumbling idiots they've been portrayed to be in outdated advertising and lowest-common-denominator sitcoms — even if some men have found playing the buffoon is a good way to get out of what they saw as less-than-pleasant responsibilities. But the rest of us got the message a long time ago that we can do better than that, and we ARE better than that. (Note: Dad being a goofball sometimes? Not the same. We can laugh at ourselves and not take ourselves too seriously, without being presented as some sort … [Read more...]