NewBee Daddy – Daddy sites and blogs
Baby kicking up a storm! (But not ours)
So last night I felt our baby kick for the first time and it was wild!
Although the baby has been kicking my wife for a couple of weeks, I haven’t been able to feel it until now… so it’s really exciting and surreal. I’m told it can be pretty uncomfortable for my wife (of course) but she also thinks it’s exciting.
This week, I’m going to kick things off (no pun intended) with some dad sites and blogs. I was very surprised at the amount of resources that were out there, but wasn’t surprised by how fragmented they were.
However, many of these sites did a great job aggregating links and resources too, so please check out their blogrolls..
As I find new resources, I’ll share them with you.. but for now, here’s what I found:
Dad Blogs & Sites
Pregancy.com – This is a great site for moms and dads. We’re able to track the baby week by week, which is very cool. Our baby is 22 weeks, so she’s the size of a spaghetti squash. My Italian mother-on-law is not crazy about comparing the baby to food, but to each his own!
http://brooklynbabydaddy.blogspot.com/ - This blog chronicles the life of me, David Serchuk, and my wife, Randi, right before, during and after the birth of our child, Stella Rae. I am an editor and she is a public school teacher. We live in Kensington, Brooklyn.
http://www.brandnewdad.com – The purpose of Brand New Dad is to act as a community and resource center for New and Expectant Fathers. There are a large number of web site communities which are focused on Mom and it was time that Dad had a home too.
http://daddyforever.com/ – Dad blog by a geek dad with four geeky kids. This geek dad blog features reviews, giveaways, and parenting advice that will ruin your kid’s life. The Forever Kids: Little Princess (10), Spiderboy (7), Little Monkey (4), and Little Disney (1). The Forevers live in exile in Oregon.
http://www.rebeldad.com/ – This site is an effort to catalog what is out there about us in the media (and in society, broadly). While others — most notably slowlane.com (may it rest in peace) have done a great job of give dads resources to find one another, I know of no site that aggregates news about at-home dads. Enter Rebel Dad. If you check out his blogroll/links, he has a great list.
http://daddytypes.com/ - Greg Allen is behind Daddy Types. As of February 2004, I’m a new dad to little girl who seems rather unimpressed with my tales of filmmaking, startups, IPO’s, global travel and artworld partyhopping. Fortunately, I’m used to it; my wife isn’t that impressed by these things, either. What’re the odds? Nature vs nurture, indeed. We live in New York City and Washington, DC, and we are both very active in taking care of our kid. Daddy Types was conceived [sic] as a personal, partial solution to the ridiculous absence of truly dad-friendly perspectives in the baby-making and -raising world. I don’t think I’m alone in noticing this gap, and I don’t want to be alone in filling it. Right on!
http://daddy-dialectic.blogspot.com/ - Daddy Dialectic started as Jeremy’s journal of his experience as a stay-at-home dad. Today Daddy Dialectic is a group blog by and about dads who embrace caregiving and egalitarian relationships, a definition of fatherhood that we believe is more in tune with the landscape of 21st Century America.
http://adadsheart.blogspot.com/ - ”Your child came into this world holding your heart in one hand and a key in the other.” — Cameron Phillips We all know that involved dads are great for kids. A Dad’s Heart explores the deeper truth that involved dads can be even better for dads themselves.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/hra/nycdads/html/about/about.shtml - NYC DADS is a citywide initiative of the New York City Human Resources Administration/ Department of Social Services (HRA) that focuses on the important role fathers play in their children’s lives. As part of this campaign, HRA has created www.nyc.gov/nycdads, and hosts events throughout the five boroughs to encourage dads with limited financial resources to spend quality time with their children. NYC DADS also endorses participation in parenting programs that assist men in meeting their financial and emotional responsibilities in positive and meaningful ways.
http://www.nymetroparents.com/ - After several years as the New York City affiliate for Disney’s family.com, NYMetroParents launched its own parenting web resource in early 1999. This website features search capabilities to seek out New York City family-related businesses and services, or any story in the 20+ year archive of our magazines. A third, powerful search engine enables users to access the NYMetroParents.com Guide to the Web, the web’s largest parenting weblink database.
http://www.nycdadsgroup.com/ - I chose to spend my son’s first year as a stay-at-home dad in New York City when I decided to take a child-care leave of absence from being a public school teacher. I started this blog for two main reasons: 1. Be THE DESTINATION for dads by sharing interesting thoughts, news, content, and playgroup information 2. Create a large network of involved fathers in NYC of stay-at-home dads, part-time at home dads, freelance, etc. looking to get together during the week. It is so important for our children to interact with other kids & so important for us dad’s to avoid isolation and talk about our kid’s development and learn new tricks to keep our kids happy or… just talk sports. My goal is to network and organize a regular meet up during the week while the rest of the world is working so we can take advantage of what the city has to offer without the crowds, while still allowing time in the evenings and weekends for our family bonding time. It is hard to meet other stay-at-home dad’s so it is time to reach out to the local on-line community.
Tags:adadsheart.blogspot.com, BrandNewDad.com, Brooklyn Baby Daddy, daddy-dialectic.blogspot.com, daddyforever.com, daddytypes.com, family, kids, New Dad NYC, NYC DADS, nycdadsgroup.com, nymetroparents.com, Pregnancy.com, rebeldad.com, Stay at Home Dad
Leave a comment