Can You Organize Fatherhood?
May 16, 2008 by Jennifer Chait
Filed under Home & Living
Maybe?
I can at least give it a shot.
As part of the Lifestyles Channel, Three Doors Down event this month, I’m introducing you to four neighboring blogs throughout the month. The last blogging neighbor I introduced you to was Hankering for Yarn. Yarn, in relation to fatherhood, is actually quite easy to organize. Being a pregnancy and baby blogger, I do have some ideas though.
How to organize the fatherhood experience:
1. Organize finances: Save some cash and get those finances organized before junior arrives. Expecting Money: The Essential Financial Plan for New and Growing Families by Erica Sandberg, is one great read if getting financially organized is your goal.
I recently received this book, and it covers breaking from debt, knowing your work and stay-at-home options, prep for a big old family budget, income issues for one and two earner families, how to plan for the future, and much more. Look for a full review on this book soon.
2. Organize your brain: Enroll in Daddy bootcamp – or at least pick up a basic book about dad specific parenting. This will make you feel more confident and you’ll be able to show your partner that you too can carry that baby, while feeding her pureed sweet potato, and still make your own lunch all at the same time. Will your partner be impressed; why yes she will.
Book ideas:
- Crouching Father, Hidden Toddler: A Zen Guide for New Dads
- Father Knows Best; This is an awesome dad-to-be set of books that comes with: The Expectant Father, Facts, Tips, and Advice for Dads-to-Be; The New Father, A Dad’s Guide to the First Year; A Dad’s Guide to the Toddler Years
3. Organize on-the-go: Get on-the-go organized with a cooler than cool bag. Yeah you’re going to need a diaper bag for all that gear; but pastel pink and green is so not you. Luckily, Diaper Dude has got your back. They’ve got plenty of hip and useful bags just for new dads. Like the Grey Dad Survival Kit or the great Good Luck Bag in brown faux suede.
4. Organize how you feel: Lastly, get to know what’s up with other dads. locating some great daddy blogs is the perfect way to get in touch with how other dads feel, and you’ll see that you’re not alone in the parenting process. My neighbor from three blogs down, Bill, writes Inside Fatherhood, which is a good place to start. Bill, a new dad himself, has been blogging the pregnancy, birth, and new parent process for a while now – his little one is five months old now.
- Classical music to help kids sleep?
- How to make homemade teething aids
- Baby yoga
- He slept for 7 hours!
- Anyone have a bulletproof backpack?
- And more.
He also does a weekly recall post – very cool for all parents. If you’re a dad-to-be, a new dad, or an experienced dad, this blog will benefit you. Also, curious mamas will like it – tell the truth; you want to know what guys are thinking about this whole parenthood deal.
Visit Inside Fatherhood today.
There – fatherhood organized in four easy steps (if only, right.) What would you add?
Where were these cool dad bags when my husband was a new dad? Thank goodness design has come such a long way in just a few years.
– Allison
Hi Allison, I know! I actually would have carried one of these around. All the bags at Diaper Dude are so cool. I really like that dad specialty products are coming on full force – or at least mid force. It makes it seem more like people agree that dads should be as involved with parenting as mamas.
Cheers for the preliminary book review! I’m always happy to help and answer questions too – Erica Sandberg
Hi Erica, thanks for stopping by. I love budget books, I like yours (almost done) because of the slant. I’ll actually be doing a review at my pregnancy and baby blog too – because my readers there could really use some of the tips.