Archive for April, 2010
Odds and Ends (and Twitter)
Posted on16. Apr, 2010 by Brian Reid.
This has been a most interesting week in dadland, but there are some smaller items that slipped through the cracks. Some of these were posted on Twitter***, so if you think they look familiar, they are.
So — if you need a break from playoff hockey — here are some nuggets:
Via Nick Senzee: This item is [...]
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Forget ‘Attachment.’ It’s All About ‘Activation’
Posted on15. Apr, 2010 by Brian Reid.
I’ve never been an huge believer in the whole “attachment parenting” thing, where ensuring your kid’s security (and making sure your kid knows it) is the central point in parenting. It seemed suffocating, the exact opposite of the kind of freedom that kids needed to taste to be engaged in the world. But I didn’t [...]
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PR, Daddyblogging and the Long Road to Equity
Posted on14. Apr, 2010 by Brian Reid.
A bunch of people have asked me what I think of Caleb Gardner’s post at the Edelman Digital blog last week on the topic of daddyblogging. In the post, Caleb makes a spirited defense of fathers — and fathers who blog — as a real, important and emerging force that public relations and marketing types [...]
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Urban Baby Doesn’t Get It, Either
Posted on13. Apr, 2010 by Brian Reid.
Thanks to DadWagon, I went back and looked at an extensive Q-and-A the New York Times Cityroom Blog did with Erin Sheehan, community editor of major parenting site/forum urbanbaby.com, back in February. Here is the part that caught my eye:
Q: Where are all the stay-at-home dads in this city? How come we don’t have [...]
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Dads Get Driven Out at Babble
Posted on13. Apr, 2010 by Brian Reid.
If you are quick, and you go over to Babble.com *right now* and look at the top of your browser, you’ll see the site’s tagline: “The Magazine and Community for a New Generation of Parents.” If you’re not quick, it might not be there. As you’ll see when you look at the page, Babble.com is [...]
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Worst Commercial of the Year Candidate: AT&T
Posted on12. Apr, 2010 by Brian Reid.
I can’t do much better than Playground Dad at expressing my absolute, jaw-dropping wonder at AT&T’s latest incarnation of the bumbling dad. What’s remarkable about the commercial is not only the general fact that it plays up a tired and outdated stereotype, but that it goes out of its way to show that this is [...]
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Welcome, Daddyshome
Posted on12. Apr, 2010 by Brian Reid.
Nothing makes me happier than to announce the slick web presence of the most important dad group you (probably) haven’t heard of: Daddyshome Inc., a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to supporting fathers who serve as primary caretakers for their children.
Their website, daddyshome.org, just launched today, and they’re busy building in a number of resources, from information [...]
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Desperate Househusbands Hit Prime Time
Posted on07. Apr, 2010 by Brian Reid.
Once upon a time, I used to be able to watch enough TV that nothing in the dad-o-sphere slipped by me. The kiddies were tucked in their beds way before prime time kicked in. Nowadays, not so much, so I missed the latest at-home dad to jump into the boob tube: Parenthood’s “Joel Graham“.
(I should [...]
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Overworked Husbands=At-Home Moms (But Not Vice Versa)
Posted on06. Apr, 2010 by Brian Reid.
Yesterday, I posted on Katherine Lewis’ great WaPo Magazine story on the struggles of a woman to get back into the workforce. But there is an even bigger question that undergirds that whole article: what drives people out of the workforce in the first place? This is the great unmentionable in “opt-out revolution” stories in [...]
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The Work of Getting Back to Work
Posted on05. Apr, 2010 by Brian Reid.
The big question when anyone leaves the work force — whether willingly, to be an at-home parent, or unwillingly, for economic reasons — is how you start the process of getting back into the work force. The whole question of re-entry is evergreen, and it shows up (some years more prominently than others) at the [...]