What I Learned From Two Weeks Off
What would you do if your kids were home for two weeks and you and your spouse had a window where you could take that time off too? Could you do it? Would you come back thinking differently? Would you have any idea what you’d do with that time, like li …
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What Happened When I Was Scrooge at Santa’s Breakfast
If there’s one thing I should have remembered from Christmases past, it’s that Santa is a patient, engaged listener. And that’s not aligned with being a hyper-efficient working parent ping-ponging through the holidays. Santa’s job is to listen to the k …
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How Dads Can Be More Present for the Holidays
Looking back on past holidays, I’ve often felt like a spectator, swept away by the chaos of gift shopping and meal preparation for get-togethers. However, I’ve seen the light and this year, things will change. Dads with young families need to fully emb …
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What’s a Dad Do To Change the Movie Playing In His Head? – Alex Trippier
Sometimes our memories of fatherhood don’t match up with our reality as dads. And then we face a choice: try to become what we think our fathers were or reimagine the role. “The pictures I had in my head of fatherhood were of me driving around in the car with my son in the back,” […]
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Why You Should Take Your Kids to Work Any Day
Here’s an accidental Thanksgiving Day Parade story that came about from a daughter wanting to come to work with her father. The day before my middle daughter became a teenager, she rode in with me to film a Today Show segment. I’m not sure who was more excited: me for having The Company of Dads […]
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No More Ghosting: Building Trust, Community, and Confident Dads
What if the secret to strong parent communities isn’t perfection, but integrity, vulnerability, and follow-through? David Homan is the author of Orchestrating Connection and founder of a decade-old community built on one rule: only surround yourself wi …
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Why My Greatest Accomplishment of the Past Year Isn’t What You’d Think
It’s been four years since I left The New York Times to start The Company of Dads. Last week I had my proudest moment. It’s not something most people put on their LinkedIn profiles. Yes, we’ve had success bringing together Lead Dads who are working to help their families fulfill their full potential at home […]
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Three Lessons from Sing-A-Longs To Tate McRae
There’s an eight-year gap between my youngest and oldest. I’m still doing elementary school parenting, while thinking about college for my oldest. I think about it often as I try to plan my work around what needs to be done for them – and my wife, who has always had far less control of her […]
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How Divorce Made This Man a Better Lead Dad – Elijah Mattox
Here’s one thing Elijah Mattox, a single Lead Dad of two from Orange County, Calif. who works in business operations, has learned: He’s a better dad today for having gone through a tough divorce when his daughters were young. “I had to step up,” he said. “I was scared to take them places when they […]
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Craig Coupe – How To Be a Team Player
A standout basketball player in college, Craig Coupe understands the importance of being a team player. It served him well on the court and in his career as a commercial real estate broker in Chicago. That team mindset helped him see a play many men miss: his skills could be better utilized if he helped […]
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Breaking the Masculine Myth
Men want to grow, but too often feel like they can’t without losing a part of themselves. Jim Chastain is a father of two, founder of the market research firm Reality Check, and now a researcher of men and modern masculinity. He discusses the five core …
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Slowing Down to Go Forward – Will Greenblatt
Sometimes pulling back is what you need to move forward as a father, a husband and a man. Will Greenblatt, our Lead Dad of the Week from Toronto, had been speeding ahead for much of his life – as a successful child actor, as an entrepreneur running a language school in China, and after he […]
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