Not that I have a problem with that, but it struck me as curious.

We attended the highly entertaining end-of-year performance at our daughter’s preschool last week, and after the parade of super-cute children, each teacher was given a bouquet of flowers. As I hooted loudly, cheering the teacher’s excellence, each teacher came across the stage, hugged the director of the school, and walked off…and then it occurred to me that all of the teachers are women.

Then I started to think back to all of my teachers in school - they were almost ALL women.

Then I searched for an answer.

But I am not convinced. Read the rest of this entry »

In honor of Father’s Day this weekend, I thought I’d send out a mass THANK YOU to all of you moms, who actually enabled us Dads to celebrate Father’s Day (last I checked, we could not reproduce on our own).

Since my own wife has banned me from my buying gifts for her (since she said she received too many on Mother’s Day), I am hoping that this tribute to the women in our lives will make her smile.

But while I’ve got you here, I thought I’d opine on the state of the American dad as sparked by Lisa Belkin’s recent piece in the NY Times and our own WIM bloggers writing on the recent Dad survey… Read the rest of this entry »

Hey, y’all, I’m getting just a little tired of all this Mommy Guilt talk.

Okay, I know you’ve cornered the market on actually birthing children and breast-feeding them. But I’m here to tell you that you’re not the only ones who are entitled to feel guilty.

Us Dads feel guilty, too. And for many - if not all - of the same reasons.

Let’s air them out. Read the rest of this entry »

Don’t you love it when a TV show gives you an idea for a blog post? Me too.

In this case it was the greatest TV show ever created (even though it went downhill in season 4 and beyond): Alias.

In the most recent episode (Season 4, Episode 13) that we watched (yes, we get it on Netflix, don’t get me started), one of the characters has “home-life” problems, according to the stock description. In translation: Character’s son was sick and puked on him, but he told his wife that he needed to go to work, handed screaming child to unhappy wife, and left to go save the life of his colleague in a foreign country.

But how do you juggle it? Read the rest of this entry »