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Dads want more time with kids | The Globe and Mail

Posted 21 June 2010 | By James | Categories: Career, Time management, doodad read it | No Comments

Some great tips from the Globe for working dads. It strikes me that these tactics would be just as useful for working moms, but I guess it was written for Father’s Day.
Dads want more time with kids despite rising work loads – The Globe and Mail.

Trust your instinct? Nurture Shock. Part 1.

Trust your instinct? Nurture Shock. Part 1.

Posted 26 March 2010 | By James | Categories: Books, Career, Discipline, Education, Sleep, doodad reviews, doodad topics, doodad wrote it | 4 Comments

I stumbled across a new book called Nurture Shock: New Thinking About Children. When I saw the author’s name — Po Bronson — I was happy to see he’d been thoughtful enough to write a new one just for me, so I picked it up.

Radical homemaking

Posted 18 March 2010 | By James | Categories: Career, Environment, Housework, Time management, doodad wrote it | 2 Comments

When my wife returned from a recent scrapbooking weekend with the ladies, she told me there’d been a fair bit of curiosity about what it is I actually do. She didn’t tell me much more than that — what happens at scrapbooking apparently stays at scrapbooking.
Well, there’s not really much mystery to it. I do [...]

SAHD reality for your career

SAHD reality for your career

Posted 14 December 2009 | By James | Categories: Career, doodad read it | No Comments

According to this article, employers and recruiters are having a tough time accepting equal parenting and questioning a father’s decision to stay home.

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