AdWeek Asks Why Marketers Are Still Ignoring Guys- August 14, 2008 If there is only one article you read this year about the changing face of masculinity (and, to a lesser extent, fatherhood), make it AdWeek's brilliant "Man of the House," which pulls together a mountain of statistics that suggest that were doing more of the cooking, cleaning and childrearing than ever before. Here are some of the best stats from the piece:"The portion of housework done by men in couples has doubled, with men who once performed 15 percent of the housework now doing 30...http://www.rebeldad.com/2008/08/adweek-asks-why-marketers-are-still.html You Gotta Fight ... For Your Right ... to Vacation- August 14, 2008 So I spent some time this week looking at the 2008-2009 school calendar, trying to figure out how to sync up the days off and breaks with my nearly exhausted company vacation time. And I'm one of the lucky ones who actually gets paid vacation.All of this is a roundabout way of saying that I support Take Back Your Time's newest effort: right2vacation.org. Because a little (more) vacation never hurt anyone.http://www.rebeldad.com/2008/08/you-gotta-fight-for-your-right-to.html I'm Back. For Real This Time.- August 14, 2008 Clearly, I'm not so good at transitions, but you have my word that you'll be getting close to daily posts again. To make it up to everyone, I'm planning for beers in Champaign in the next couple of weeks. Stay tuned.http://www.rebeldad.com/2008/08/im-back-for-real-this-time.html Babble Says the Days of Equal Parenting Are Upon Us (More or Less)- August 14, 2008 My opinion on whether involved fatherhood has passed the tipping point or not fluctuates by the day, but hats off to Babble, which ran a piece title "10 Signs that Parenting is More Equal than it Used to Be."The problem for me is that "More Equal than it Used to Be" is not a particularly impressive bar to clear. There's no doubt that all of the 10 trends are real (more changing tables in men's rooms, more guys taking paternity leave, more at-home dads), but the real question is whether the...http://www.rebeldad.com/2008/08/babble-says-days-of-equal-parenting-are.html Back and Wired and Thinking About DadBloggerCon- August 6, 2008 OK. I have survived the longest move of my life (to date). I have survived Comcast's installation of my cable internet (barely). Now it's back to business as usual (sort of).My first act as a new Illinois resident will be to put my full weight behind Paul Nyhan's dadblogger mini-conference idea. Especially if there is beer.http://www.rebeldad.com/2008/08/back-and-wired-and-thinking-about.html |