COOL DADS: TOUGH TIMES EDITION
The birth rate is at a historic low! Work-life balance is still totally whack! @#$% Covid! So who in their right mind would want to be a dad right now? We’ll tell you who: men who have used the past two long years to step up and not just parent their kids but also equip them with the skills needed to thrive in a politically divided, domestically messy, emotionally tumultuous modern age. The fathers featured in the following pages are proof that this is actually an awesome time to be a dad – because we need awesome dads now more than ever.
# 1 DAD SKILLS TOUGH TIMES
BAN PHONES–AND RECONNECT AT DINNER
We’re all busy. And distracted. And overextended. Which is exactly why we should put one more event on the calendar every day
WHEN I TOOK THE JOB at more than a decade ago, one of the things my wife and I committed to was having a family dinner every night. I’m a pretty relaxed father. But as our younger daughter, Harper, says, the only thing I’m strict about as a dad is family dinner, “and the rest of my
