Daddy Dialectic

I once went to Australia to speak at a conference. (This is in a previous life, when I jetted all over the place talking about independent ...

The Barista: Had she been born in Russia in 1906, she would have become the muse of Constructivists and Bolshevik poster-artists. Slim and ...

About a year and a half ago, I took a long trip. It involved one of the world's lengthier voyages by air. When I returned a few weeks la...

In my ideal world, mothers, rich and poor, will be able to take at least the first year of their child's life off of work. Affluent moth...

I've been thinking about posting on this topic for a while now. I just haven't had the courage. It wouldn't be about me peeing i...

An engineer once told me that the reason cars make that strange-but-cool noise in reverse gear is that they aren't designed to move that...

One recent study by a conservative British think-tank questioned whether men would ever use extended paternity leave, because their study r...

Happy New Year! Or is it? For decades, the conventional wisdom has said that we're getting dumber, society is disintegrating, and the wo...

I had never seen Mr. Mom , the 1983 film that marked the screen debut of the stay-at-home dad. Long-time readers (both of you!) might recall...

My essay on the ideal and reality of Christian Right parenting is up at Public Eye . Also worth a look: The American Prospect 's specia...

We have a running discussion here at Daddy Dialectic about how to raise moral kids without religion. This week, Time magazine tells us that...

A new UK study suggests that stay-at-home dads hurt their sons' chances in school--but not their daughters'. "Our analysis poi...

Mark your calenders: I'll be reading at a free event in San Francisco. We're dubbing it an "issue departure" (as opposed t...

Somehow, at some point, I have become a slob. My wife and I have debated the stages of the metamorphosis. It correlates strongly, though not...

I just finished a long essay for Public Eye magazine on the ideal and reality of Christian Right childrearing, which will be published some...

Hello -- it's been a while since I posted, and since rad dad 8 is taking shape, I thought I’d post something from rad dad 7 as a way to ...

The next issue of Greater Good will feature a series of essays about the psychology of power, including an essay by Stanford professor Robe...

Liko and Shelly are both ill and they both go to bed early. I tuck them in, do the dishes, pick up his room. Now what? It's only 8:45 an...

Scene: Dinner at Savor in Noe Valley. I'm eating humus; Liko is eating pasta. Me: Liko, do you want to go to the antiwar protest tomorro...

A few days before my high school reunion, I was down on the rug, face to face with Spot, watching him execute his favorite pilates routine w...