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Change the World. Support Girls.

I don't often get swept up in viral campaigns or spend much time expounding on my non-dad-related social or political views, but I ran across the video below this weekend and -- as the father of two daughters -- found it extraordinary. It's done under the auspices of the girl effect, and it seems to be as thoughtful and revolutionary an approach to changing the world as any I've seen: ...

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[ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:42:00 PST ]

Two Funny Videos. (But Only One Intentional Funny One)

This has been flying around the internets for the last week, and it is -- without a doubt -- the best at-home-dad related music video of all time. If you haven't seen it, you really must.Of course, John Lajoie, the hard-rocking AHD, was trying to be amusing. Not so much with John Hagee, who has apparently added stay-at-home dads to the long list of folks he is intolerant of. Given that it is really, really hard to take him seriously, this qualifies as humor: ...

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[ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:14:01 -0500 ]

Now is the Time to Register for the Convention

The At-Home Dad Convention is headed to Sacramento this year (Nov. 8), and registration is now open. It's $85 now, $95 after October 1.If you want to live it up, you can make it a three-day deal, including events Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening. The main event is Saturday, and will feature sessions on everything from financial planning to hair braiding to the research of Aaron Rochlen.If you've been before, you don't need a sales job from me. If you're an at-home dad and you haven't gone, ...

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[ Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:24:43 -0500 ]

Multimedia Dads

There's going to be a lot of dad news to read this week and next, but not everyone enjoys plowing through surveys and news stories and wordy blog analyses. Some people want to experience the joys of fatherhood through audio or video. Those people are in luck this week.For starters, NPR hosted a great dads roundtable in place the usual "Mocha Moms" programming yesterday. That's worth a listen.Secondly, if you're tracking the evolution of the Evolution of Dad, which is shaping up to the be-all and...

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[ Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:23:01 -0500 ]

The Single Best Document on Work-Life Balance for Men

I can't believe I missed this the first time around, but the folks at HellerEhrman, as part of their Opt-In Project, held an extraordinary roundtable at the beginning of last year titled "Work-Life Balance: Not Just for Women." The report from that day gives a great and concise overview of the current state of play for guys in the workplace. Well worth the read.(Again, credit goes to Working Dad, who found this and pulled out the most compelling quote: "Men are willing to talk about these things...

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[ Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:02:02 -0500 ]

The Amazing Shifting Census Numbers

So for a long time I've been tracking one of the Census Bureau's measures of dad involvement: the number of children of employed moms who are cared for by fathers. It's not an "at-home dad" number, per se, but it's not a bad proxy. During prep for our Today Show segment on Wednesday, Aaron Rochlen stumbled on another apparent update on the number.The number that has always interested me is the "Primary Child Care Arrangements of Preschoolers with Employed Mothers," which has bounced around a bit...

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[ Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:50:05 -0500 ]

Dr. Kyle Pruett on Video on the Importance of Dads

If you were ever asked to give a 90-second answer to the question of "why are dads important?" you couldn't possibly do better than Yale's Kyle Pruett does here during an excerpt from documentarian Dana Glazer's wonderful "Evolution of Dad" project: ...

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[ Mon, 31 Mar 2008 05:41:23 -0500 ]

Getting to Revolution

Dana Glazer, who is putting together what can only turn out to be a kick-ass documentary on fathers (called Evolution of Dad), put up a new video clip over the weekend. It's three-minute snippet of Michael Kimmel talking about where young men are with work-life balance, where they've been, and where they're going. It all rings true to me: ...

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[ Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:31:53 -0600 ]

And Now ... The Well-Done Research

Lest you think I spend all my time going after researchers who write lousy research papers on how at-home dads may be hampering the educational readiness of their sons, I want to flag a wonderful analysis of 24 studies of fatherhood by a group of researchers from New Zealand's Maxim Institute called Going Further With Fathers (pdf).The conclusion after poring over those 24 studies was that there is a staggering amount of evidence that fathers play a unique role in the lives of their children, an...

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[ Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:14:01 -0600 ]

The Last Word (For Now) on the Bad-SAHDs Study

It's still a holiday, so you'll get little in the way of analysis, just some links. The UK study was officially released today (they actually pulled down the research earlier this week). There's now a press release and a newsletter summary of the research. It's really offensive and demonstrative of the anti-fathercare bias that appears to have been in place when the research was begun.(As a bonus, check out the lead story in the newsletter, about how working mothers make their kids fat. One thin...

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[ Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:49:49 -0600 ]

The UK Government Gets in the Daddying Act

So the fine folks running the UK have decided to give first-time dads a little bit of a primer on the whole pregnancy-and-childbirth thing, publishing a booklet titled "37 Things Every Man Should Know Before He Becomes A Dad'. I'm not sure what to make of it -- we sure don't get government publications around here that look like this (trust me, I've written my share of government publications). And though I'm not on-board with all of the tips, any publication that gives car-seat tips, encourages...

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[ Fri, 08 Jun 2007 07:55:30 -0500 ]

Final Convention posting of the year (probably), t...

Final Convention posting of the year (probably), to wrap up loose odds and ends before the holiday. There's also a mounting mountain of non-convention bits to get to ... but not today.First, news ... Kyle Pruett dropped one piece of brand-spanking-new information during his talk on Saturday: fatherhood changes men's brains (and changes them different from the way motherhood changes the brains of women). Pretty said a student of his studied the brains of new fathers using functional magnetic reso...

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[ Fri, 02 Feb 2007 21:28:44 -0600 ]

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