RebelDad

Posted on 12. Dec, 2005 by Brian Reid in General

Building out the at-home dad resources. Regular readers may notice a couple of subtle changes to the page (and very eagle-eye readers may have noticed some other beta testing going on this weekend). The big change is that there are two additional links in the green bar at the top of the page. The “Wikipedia” link takes you to the newly created “Stay At Home Dad” Wikipedia page.

The other link is even more interesting. It’s my attempt to create a “lens” (see the ebook here if you’re really curious) with a new service called Squidoo. The idea is to create an easy-to-update reference site for at-home fatherhood issues. As much as I like to pretend that this site can give you all the information about fatherhood at a glance, rebeldad.com really is a blog — a constantly updating stream of information. On the other side, slowlane.com is a rich resource that is never updated. My Squidoo lens is an effort to bridge the gulf between too-topical-to-be-a-good-reference (a blog) and too-static-to-be-useful (most other sites). So please check it out and let me know what’s wrong, what’s missing, what you think. (There ought to be an Oakton section in there. I’ll build that out in the next week or two. Anything else I’m forgetting?)

(Oh, and there are a couple of new links on the blogroll. The next modification will be a deletion: I have a growing number of blogs on there that haven’t been updated in some time …)

There’s new media out there, too. You’ll be well-served to check out this Boston Globe column on at-home dads. It touches on an interesting thing: the way that dads often define themselves by their part-time work, in addition to (but not instead of) their parenting role. It’s a key point to make if we’re going to enter a brave new workplace: in an ideal world, we’ll be better able to blend work and family, to the point where we don’t have to choose one mantle or the other.