This Father’s Day, forget the hackneyed concepts about golfing and grilling. Some moms and dads we dig told us what being a 21st-century father means. Enjoy.
Being a modern dad means always finding time to be goofy with your children and laugh until your stomach hurts. — Victor Aragon, Chicago Dads Group, FanDads
Being a modern dad is sharing all the parenting responsibilities equally with your child’s other modern dad. It’s also having the confidence to take on tasks traditionally relegated to moms, and the humility to ask for help. — Brent Almond, Designer Daddy
Being a modern dad means saying to your wife or partner, “You should definitely try to get tickets to that all-woman Wonder Woman screening tomorrow night! I’ve got the kids.” — Liz Gumbinner, Cool Mom Picks
Being a modern dad is letting your kid pick out your outfit and being fine with it. — Chad R. MacDonald, NYC Dads Group, The Good, The Chad & The Ugly
Being a modern dad is having to explain the importance of civil discourse to 6- and 9-year-old boys. — Len Vlahos, young adult novelist
Being a dad in these times is knowing the exact amounts of coffee, beer, yelling and hugs it takes to create the alchemy that is a happy home. — Homemaker Man, Boston Dads Group, blogger at Musings from the Big Pink
Being a modern father means crowning your child with physical and emotional affection. — Lorne Jaffe, NYC Dads Group, Raising Sienna
Being a modern dad is giving side-eye to anyone who asks if you “babysit your children.” — Amy Bellgardt, MomSpark
Being a modern dad is kicking off your shoes after a long day at work, and jumping into the trampoline with your kids. It also means learning to create different hairdos for your daughter’s gymnastics competitions. — Chris Read, Canadian Dad
Being a 21st-century father means setting aside everything else in your memory so you can create new ones. — Benjamin Mullen, Philadelphia Dads Group
Being a modern dad means making fatherhood a top priority — valuing it over money, career and the rat race. It means setting the best example you can of how to live a good, healthy life with fundamental values like equality and respect. Plus it means finding the caffeine supply that really works for you. — Josh Levs, author of All In: How Our Work-First Culture Fails Dads, Families, and Businesses – And How We Can Fix It Together
Being a modern father is peeing standing-up, and cleaning up after toddler sons who do the same. — Kevin “Spike” Zelenka, Las Vegas Dads Group
Being a dad in today’s world means taking away screen time during the week so that on the weekends you don’t feel bad about watching an eight-hour American Ninja Warrior marathon. — Adam Gertsacov, Chicago Dads Group, Dadapalooza
Being a modern father means rolling down the windows of your badass minivan, and cruising into the carpool lane with the Pearl Jam station cranking on Sirius XM Radio. — Dan Zevin, author of “Dan Gets a Minivan” and the “Little Miss and Mr. Me Me Me” series
Being a modern dad means asking yourself what you wanted as a kid and then offering your kids what you missed out on. — Darrell Humphrey, Charlotte Dads Group,
Being a dad in the 21st century means playing catch with a nearly 7-year-old until your arm is about to fall off. — Niel Vuolo, NYC Dads Group, Niel In Real Life, Great Moments in Bad Parenting
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