This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. As Virginia Ultrasound Rule Fails, Is GOP Seeing Reproductive Rights Backlash? by Michelle Goldberg of The Daily Beast says Gov. Bob McDonnell balked at an ultrasound law, and a personhood bill fell with it. Are […]
In nine years as an at-home dad, I have taken my kids to countless grocery stores, hardware stores, doctor’s appointments (mine and theirs), banks, playgrounds, museums, and post offices, all during normal working hours. I often hear, “So it’s daddy’s day! How sweet,” or “It looks like you have a few helpers with you today,” […]
This piece was originally published on Gaddy Daddy. Republished here with permission. Many people ask us how Max was conceived. It’s a rather personal question that some parents would understandably decline to answer. We usually don’t mind it, because we see it as an opportunity to inform them about the wonderful ways that families can […]
From personal experience, Kate McGuinness shares advice—and warnings—with a friend who recently became a step mother. Recently, I attended the wedding of a friend who was marrying a man with two children from a prior marriage. Like one-third of all marriages in the United States today, this one would form a stepfamily. Before my friend […]
When I was 17, I brought my first serious girlfriend to spend the weekend at my grandmother’s ranch in the country. Before we left, my mother took me aside to remind me of her mother’s rule: our luggage would be placed in separate rooms. “Nocturnal traffic,” as she put it, between my room and my […]
When my marriage had an undeniable crisis, I discovered I was pregnant with my second child. I was terrified that I was about to give birth to another kid to whom I would eventually become a Single Mom. I didn’t believe I had the personal resources to go it alone. I don’t have family support, […]
This article originally appeared on homemadedad.ca. Republished here with permission. In my search for accurate descriptors of my role in my family’s life, I have settled on this one (for now): primary parental unit. It is clear and descriptive. I am a father, a parent, but without the traditional absentee breadwinner connotation that “father” holds. […]
This week marks the 20-year anniversary of my mother’s remission from breast cancer. Technically, it’s the date of her first mastectomy, and we are celebrating her life, and ours with her, as a survivor. “We” means my first family, or family of origin: my two sisters and me; a smattering of our own partners and […]
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 originally appeared on HuffingtonPost.com. Republished here with permission. So what’s your name now? Life used to be so simple. Women didn’t worry too much about what they majored in at college because they expected Mrs. Degrees; to marry men who would support them for the rest of their lives. When a woman married, she […]
The other day our 4th grader was home sick from school. She was just getting over her fever and had to stay home one more day, because you need to be fever-free for 24 hours before you can go back to school. (I think that kids wanting to play more games on their ipods must […]
