We Need A Solution For Different School Breaks
They force parents to make choices, reduce work and inevitably upset kids. A lot of firsts are great – first…
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Tuesdays With Dads
Lessons on Stereotypes from A Fathers Meet-up in Los Angeles – There’s the bumbling dad, the angry dad, the abusive dad, the…
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The Time My Daughter Hid From Serena Williams
This is No April Fool’s Joke. We sat on the couch as a family and watched “King Richard”. Each year, we pick…
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Patrick van Hoof – Netherlands
A new member of the Company of Dads community and a single dad to his two daughters, Patrick is the founder of superparent.nl, an…
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Finding A Balance
Fun with Family and Friends Can Be Fraught for Lead Dads. Matt, an executive coach whose wife runs a Fortune 1000 company, goes…
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“Dad Jokes” (Some of them Are Actually Funny!)
I recently asked my 12-year-old son how he would define a “Dad Joke,” and he immediately said, “A joke that a dad tells to kids that’s…
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How All Working Husbands Can Become Lead Dad Material
Lara Bazelon is an attorney and author of the book Ambitious Like A Mother: Why Prioritizing Your Career is Good for Your Kids. Her book is about this moment in time, when we’ve come out of the pandemic where whole groups of people have been able to work from home, and that…
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A Lead Dad’s Mantra for His Son
Gerald Olson is a Lead Dad living and working in Los Angeles, California. He adopted his son Astor through California’s “Safely…
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Find The Community That’s For You
Blank Stares or Knowing Smiles? It’s not that your friends are going to make fun of you for your choice. This isn’t high school. But…
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What You Say When You’re Asked What You Do
Franco Finstad is a dad-at-home in Manhattan, as he calls it on his LinkedIn profile. He has twins, a boy and a girl. Before they were born, he was a software engineer and a musician – trumpet being his instrument. But a funny thing happened on the way to being the Lead Dad to…
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Will The Pandemic Change Work and Parenting?
Jamie Ladge, an associate professor of management and organizational development at Northeastern University, comes at the work-life debate with a lot of questions. Why is it hard to be both a good parent and a good worker? Can fathers be competent dads and professionals? Will…
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How Do Spouses Speak When Roles Change
Alex McKenzie was the Emperor of Ice Cream, a life-long food lover who created an ice cream business (named for a Wallace Stevens poem) that was thriving pre-pandemic. He’d done many other things in the food world. He’s worked in the fields and in restaurants. The fish…
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