This article originally appeared in the magazine Brain, Child. Republished here with permission. Katy’s mother, Donna Koonce, wanted a baby girl. The year was 1962. Donna and her husband, a small-town Texas football coach called Big Phil, had two strapping young sons. But Donna yearned for a soul mate, a confidante, a fashion plate. In […]
This originally appeared on NYCDadsGroup.com. Republished here with permission. Typically in my blog posts, I focus on the outlier status of being a stay-at-home father: We’re different; we’re outside the norm; other parents don’t trust us to host sleepovers alone; is there a correlation with stay-at-home dads and low testosterone; what is it like to […]
Republished here with permission from Kristin Maschka’s blog. In my life before motherhood, I led time management training sessions for employees of a big company. I indoctrinated everyone in the Franklin-Covey system for managing time. Before the age of iPhones, I kept my own binder-size day-planner and later a Palm Pilot at my side to […]
This article originally appeared on Hypervocal.com. Republished here with permission. After reading a few articles covering the recent story about Beck and Kieran, the couple who only revealed the sex of their child when he was five and starting school, I seem to be in the minority. I praise these parents for having the courage […]
Before I met A, our 20-month-old son’s full-time caregiver, I could scarcely imagine having a virtual stranger spend every day in our home while my husband and I were at work. Of all the things to worry about when choosing somebody to look after your beloved child, this is the shit that kept running through […]
Republished here with permission from The Good Men Project. My Mom died of cancer in the late evening hours on May 17, 2008. I remember standing behind my dad as he huddled over her bed, his huge hand holding hers and his other covering his own face. I listened to him, unnerved by his uncontrollable […]
This piece originally appeared on Daddyshome.org. Republished here with permission. First off, I’m probably not the one to be writing this. I should just step away from the computer, take my beer with me and head on down to watch the rest of the football game. All very manly tasks done by the average male […]
Our daughter Heloise was conceived right before I turned 41. Being “old school” about these things, my wife and I kept her pregnancy a secret until early in the second trimester, when we started telling family and friends. When I announced our happy news to some colleagues over lunch, one cocked his head and asked […]
