A lot has been written about the dangers of overexposing children to media, specifically television. Once a mantra echoed predominantly among the upper middle class, these days it seems the majority of Americans know that too much screen time can have ill effects. Whether and how folks heed that warning in their daily lives is, […]
This article originally appeared on The Good Men Project. Republished here with permission. Sarah Buttenwieser reminds us that you don’t have to purchase gender at the clothing or toy store–or as seen on TV. Practically from the moment I let anyone know I was pregnant with my first child—now 16—the very first question seemed to […]
Republished here with permission from Kristin Maschka’s blog. A recent tweet from the University of Chicago Urban Education Institute pointed me to this Washington Post article, Study: Single-Sex Education May Do More Harm Than Good. I have always been opposed to single-sex schools myself. I believe single-sex schools make it harder for boys and girls […]
Making New Year’s resolutions about work/life balance? If you want to tilt the scales towards either more working or more living this year, how much control does your household have to make it happen? Work/life balance conversations inevitably get framed in terms of work quantity. Are we working too much, or too little? How well […]
This piece was originally published on CitiScoop: The Insider’s Guide to Modern Parenting. Republished here with permission. I have been an at-home parent for the last six years, and during that time, I have struggled to find an identity beyond parenthood. There have been many stories in the press lately about work-life balance—usually about professionals […]
I have been an at-home dad for nine years. Or, at least I thought I had been. It turns out I may have been an at-home or stay-at-home dad (SAHD) for only four years. Most of the last nine years I may have been only a primary caregiver. Confused? Yeah, me too. The confusion lies […]
Republished here with permission from The Good Men Project. I’m the older of two children. When my little sister was born, I was three and a half years old, and I got some version of the story of where babies come from. Later, when I was old enough to be curious about puberty, I read […]
This article originally appeared on homemadedad.ca. Republished here with permission. One of the trickiest parts of being a primary parenting dad is the moms. I mean, I like moms and sometimes it feels like I have more in common with them than other dads. Yet, this is precisely the tricky part. On a typical day, […]
