Posted on 20. Nov, 2004 by Brian Reid in General
DATELINE DES PLAINES: You asked for it … (or at least a couple of your did) so here are some quick updates from the At-Home Dad Convention in Chicago. For starters, this didn’t look like a promising trip. Nothing worse than a middle seat. But … Hertz is out of Ford Focuses, so I was forced to accept a Mustang instead. Lemon yellow. I’m traveling in style this weekend.
I hit Kyle Pruett’s talk tonight. He’ll speak tomorrow — with more of an at-home dad focus — but his presentation tonight was wonderful. I’d read his stuff but never heard him speak before, and I won’t pass up the opportunity to do it again.
Pruett is tuned into a lot of things that feel like the cutting edge of fatherhood, trends that seem to be emerging. He talked a fair amount about work-family stress and the way it hits fathers. I know that I ramble on here incessantly about work-family street, but it was encouraging to hear the world’s authority on fatherhood say, in no uncertain terms, that work-family stress is “the first social plague of the 21st century.”
More to come … off to catch up with the boys.