Top Reads for Dads
There’s no training manual for becoming a dad – but the right books can help. These fatherhood favorites offer practical guidance, perspective, and confidence for dads at every stage.
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How Single Dads Manage Custody Schedules
As more fathers step into single parenthood, managing custody schedules has become a defining challenge. Single dads share the realities, obstacles, and strategies that help them co-parent with clarity and care.
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How Not To Ruin Parental Leave, If You’re A Manager
Companies can have the most generous, equitable parental leave policies – plans polished and perfected to allow mothers and fathers time…
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Dad Jokes (Part Two)
A while back, I wrote a piece about what dads call “humor,” but what everyone else calls “Dad Humor.” These are admittedly corny jokes and…
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A Map to Morning Routine Chaos
Morning routines with kids are rarely calm – and never static. From snow days to shifting schedules, here’s how dads build flexible, team-based routines that actually work.
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Season 1, Episode 3: Turning Talk into Action for Gender Equality
David Smith, a former Navy pilot who is now an associate professor at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, shares eye-opening insights on achieving gender equity in the workplace and at home. Drawing from his own experiences in the male-dominated Naval …
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5 Things Dads Can Do To Show They’re Allies to Moms
Today is International Women’s Day. It’s a day when men need to step forward and speak and act in support of an expansive view of equality. I’m writing as a husband and father of three daughters with a personal and a professional shoutout. If not for t …
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Want To Learn To Be a Better Husband?
Two words could change your married life for the better: mental load. It’s a phrase coined by Eve Rodsky that has spawned a movement to…
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Season 1, Episode 2: Work, Life, Family: Defining the Parenting Village
Dr. Dana Suskind, a trailblazing surgeon and researcher, has built a career on the profound impact that parent-child interactions have on children’s’ brains. Drawing from cutting-edge science and her own inspirational life story, Dr. Suskind shares pra …
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Max Leitenberger
Don’t knock long-distance relationships: when they work, credit goes to the couple’s ability to communicate with each other when they’re…
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Money Talks? Save Your Energy For Really Tough Discussions
How do you answer your children’s questions about the world you work and live in? We had a tough series of questions last week that caused…
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Tips for Dads: Child Sleep Regressions
Just when sleep training starts to work, sleep regression hits and pulls everyone back into survival mode. Here’s how dads can stay steady, supportive, and sane through the setback.
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