Since my kids are off school for Veteran's Day, I'm taking this as an opportunity to pause and tally up the number of full five-day weeks of school they've had. As the chart above depicts, fewer than half of the eleven weeks of school so far have featured five full days of school.
In addition to thanking our veterans today, I'll thank Labor Day, Rosh Hoshanah, Yom Kippur, parent teacher conferences and election day. I mean, who really wants a solid routine in life anyway?
The name of this blog is a political statement about fatherhood. Regardless of the progress toward gender equality that has occurred over the last several decades, one stereotype persists and may be getting worse: moms are good parents and dads are incompetent boobs who sometimes babysit. Poppycock, I say. Or an excuse for dads who would like to be viewed as numskulls so that they don't have to parent their kids. Dads are parents too, and I know some who are very good at it.
I'm neither a stay-at-home dad nor do I work full time. I work part time, and I'm the primary parent for the foreseeable future. The primary competent parent, I hope it is not presumptuous to say.