In A Work From Home World, It’s What Your Kids See, Not What You Say, That Matters
A year ago, my final column ran in The New York Times after an unimaginably great 13-year run. On the one-year anniversary, I was sitting…
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How To Start the School Year Stress Free: Declare School Free Work Week
Why Is The First Day of School So Scary – For Parents, Too? It’s Hard on Working Parents to Manage, but I Finally Found a Different Way…
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The After School Sign-Up Race
Why After School Programs Are Important But Hard on Working Parents to Coordinate – I live by my calendar, to my joy and other people’s…
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5 Time Management Strategies from World Expert Dr. Whillans
Dr. Ashley Whillans is one of the most impressive people I’ve ever interviewed. Her journey from the actress giving Juno the stink eye to…
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Johannes Oberlin – New Canaan, CT
Introducing Johannes Oberlin, our Lead Dad of the Week! Johannes is a father of two sons Liam, 4, and Nico, 8 months. Johannes grew up in…
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5 Tips To Make Your Kids Great At Sports
How To Manage The Cost of Sports – Beyond Just the Money. This is the first 5 Tips Series, looking at the positive role Lead Dads can play…
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How To Find Time To Have Fun
And Still be a Good Lead Dad – Several months ago my friend VJ invited me to the three-day member guest tournament at the Philadelphia…
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The Advice Lead Dads Need
And the simple reminder to prevent us from doing it. Mistakes, I’ve made a few – at home, at work, with my wife, my kids. Lead Dad doesn’t…
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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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Why Lead Dads Don’t Panic When Stocks Slump
Stocks go up and down. The price of oil does, too. And they do so regularly for all kinds of reasons, some rational, some not so much…
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Hobby and Fun
Friday is about fun. My fun, though, tends to mix serious and silly. Today, I’m kicking off a video series called “Paul Putts” on our…
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What Pandemic Research Revealed About Dads
The pandemic changed parenting and relationships overnight. Kids were forced home from school. Parents were sent into remote work or forced to juggle shifts with parenting. Into this chaos, stepped Kristen Shockley, a professor at the University of Georgia, who wanted to know…
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