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  • Strollerderby Playdate: San Francisco Dads

    One of my favorite dad bloggers, Doodaddy, just came out of the closet. He hid his secret life so well, but you can only ignore nature for so long. So, he did what he had to do. He told his wife.

    "Honey, I'm a blogger."

    Good for you, Doodaddy!

    If you haven't been reading him, check him out right. now. Doodaddy shares his life as a stay-at-home dad in San Francisco with honesty and humor and plenty of late nights. Thankfully, he's not alone.

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  • Top 10 Must-Haves for New Dads; Now with Urinals!

    The Today Show recently ran a piece about the Top 10 products for new moms. Cribs. Diaper bags. Sleep sacks. Pretty normal stuff. But still, are these items restricted to moms? What about dads, yo?

    Thingamababy answers back with a post about the Top 10 must-haves for new dads -- besides the obvious gin flask and vasectomy, that is. I mean that just goes without saying, right?

    First up, an inflatable bed. Know it. Use it. Love it. Just make sure it's conveniently parked on the far side of the house -- where you can't hear your newborn cry. Massaging recliners. Portable urinals. Golf carts. The list just gets better and better -- although I can see why the Today Show would be hesitant to show a portable urinal ...


  • Strollerderby Playdate: Daddybloggers

    DaddybloggerAny of you that follow my personal blog know that I love me some Daddybloggers. (You also may know that I don't often use the phrase "I love me some" but it seemed to work here) There aren't as many of them as there are of the Mommybloggers (I apologize to those of you who are offended by this term. It doesn't bother me.) but there are a lot of them out there, and there are a lot of really great Daddy Blogs out there. Let's see what my interweb boyfriends are up to this week:

    Cynical Dad thinks he is raising a kindergarten aged sociopath. 

    Rude Cactus had a very strange day. (This involves an illustration of a public restroom. You should really go look.)

    The AARP is trying to recruit Dad2Twins even though he is not yet "of age".

    Somebody lost Kemp's airplane. 

    Matthew's kids keep talking about their butts. 

    There are more out there, I assure you. Don't be sad. I'll be back next week with some more Dad Blogs to keep you busy. 


  • At-Home Dads Have It Way. Too. Easy.

    I'm totally going about this stay-at-home dad business the wrong way. Apparently instead of shopping for dinner and cleaning the kitchen and quelling tantrums and mastering that $#@! sippy cup and passing on language and praying to dear lord sweet jebus for nap time, I should be watching as many sports programs (matches? meets?) as possible, finding new hobbies, like surfing and building rocking chairs, and not worrying about "wasting" that college degree.

    Uh huh.

    This particular vision of the at-home parenting lifestyle is by a Stanford college student who penned a column -- "It's sad we don't consider becoming a SAHD" -- about all the glories and free time at-home dads have suddenly wandered into.

    I'm not going to rip apart this poor, deluded lad -- despite the gravy boat of opportunities:

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  • Dads Are Bloggers, Too

    When I first started blogging, shortly after the birth of my son, I was sure I’d find a legion of fellow dads, sharing their experiences with the rest of the Internet. My reasoning seemed logical; since the print publishing world pretty much ignores the other half of the parenting equation, there must be some other source of great writing on fatherhood. Well, I didn’t find anything close to the sheer volume of mommybloggers – in fact, for a while there were only a handful of  blogging dads out there, the few, the proud. These days, I’m happy to say that there are quite a few of us, and many of them are producing some excellent writing. Many of them are also very well known, and while I was mulling over who I should include in this list, it seemed to me that this would be a good opportunity to put the spotlight on some of my favorite bloggers who are flying under the radar. A dad’s world is just as compelling as a mom’s; perhaps more so, as one is not likely to find our stories on the bookshelves or the magazine racks. So I give you four of my favorite sites, in no particular order. Each brings a unique take on fatherhood to the virtual table, and each is definitely worth your time.

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  • USA Today Showcases Hipster Dads

    Some backstory: I was stoked to join the Babble collective, not because the writers were "hip" and urbane (it can be argued that I am neither - the last accessory I bought for myself was one of these, because it's the same bag used by Agent Bauer, and now I have a JackSack! Cool!), but because the site devotes an (almost) equal amount of bandwidth to dads. This is a rare thing in the world of parental publications.

     

    Today's edition of USA Today offers up a brief take on the "hipster dad phenomenon". With Neal Pollack's Alternadad hitting the shelves, there's been a bit of murmuring in traditional print media about the nature of modern fatherhood. Olivia Barker's piece, unlike some of the borderline snide "reporting" on "hipster dads" that we've seen of late (I'm talking to you, New York magazine), presents a pretty positive take on this segment of the dad population.

     

    One of my biggest beefs, as a father and as a writer, is the almost complete lack of media attention paid to dads; even so-called "parenting" magazines skew heavily toward mothers, and as Rebel Dad Brian Reid points out, it's hard out here for a daddy writer. Whether or not you buy into the concept of the hipster dad (I kinda don't), it's good to see that there's (fingers crossed) a growing interest in the other half of the parenting equation.


  • Tips For Successful Parentblogging

    In my time wasting serious Internet research of blogs, parent-blogs specifically, I've noticed that the best of them seem to have some things in common:

    1.  Long posts, with dialog.

    2.  Use of caps.

    3.  Use of that word that rhymes with "duck". 

    4.  Poop. 

    Case in point:  This post of Mr. Nice Guy's (can you go wrong with a title like "daddypoopy"?  Instantly, you know where you are with this one).  Here's a small snack from the post:  mr and mrs nice guy are asleep, dead to the world in their connubial chamber. it is, unfailingly, somewhere between 6 and 6:30. out of nowhere a child starts yelling.  "MOMMY? moooooooooooommy! poopy! DADDY POOPY mommypoopymommypoopy! poopydaddy!"  then whoever's turn it is to take the morning shift drags his/her sorry ass out of bed and goes into the baby's room. let's say it's me. i walk into her room and the child lights up with glee: "DADDY! IT'S A POOPY!"

    Daddybloggers, take note!   We mommybloggers have it somewhat easier, as all we have to do is talk about how big our asses are getting, what footwear our spouses have on, the new eyerolling capabilities of our tweens, or what we drank at playgroup yesterday, and we have a post!  Daddybloggers, on the other hand, seem to need to balance humor with sensitivity without actually being Sensitive

    A much harder job, if you ask me.   

     



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