Kids, house, work, chores: who does what, and why? Today’s parents operate on different wavelengths than ever before. In this installment of The Good Men Project‘s “Let’s Ask Dad” series, Ken Goldstein asks our panel to talk openly about which parent does “mom tasks” or “dads tasks,” and why.
Their answers vary, but each dad knows exactly his place and set of chores when it comes to raising the kids and running a household—whether they split the chores down the middle or assign each parent a list of what they’re better at (or enjoy more).
Each answer reveals the leftover “traditional roles” in each household as well as some not-so-traditional division. All in all, every parent is unique in defining the roles of their relationship which allows them to be the dads they need to be.
Our panel of writers and dads Will Klein, Admond Fong, Asif Ahmed, Jared Mercier, Kyle Lawrence, and Thomas Olona recount their memories of those first days of fatherhood as well as the stages between then and adulthood.
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In this video series, The Good Men Project‘s Ken Goldstein interviewed seven dads across a spectrum of different backgrounds. They were different ages, their children were different ages–some had one child, some had several. They came from different backgrounds, income levels, commitments to faith, and hopes for the future.
What these dads have in common is a profound love for their children, deep reflection on the impact of their own fathers on their lives, humble concern about wanting to make consistently good choices for their children, and hope that their children will grow up resilient and caring in a world with unnerving obstacles at every stage of life.
“Let’s Ask Dad” is the conversation about fatherhood in the 21st century on The Good Men Project.
Ken Goldstein, The Good Men Project Board Member speaks to the experience:
“I sat in the studio and got to know each of these fine men through their detailed answers to our deceptively simple questions, I was struck by the commonality in their integrity, candor, introspection, and keen insights into the forever moments of parenting. Any single moment of a child’s development might or might not become a memory, but the memories each of these individuals recalled with resonance were as different as they were as human beings.”
Join us below in the comments, answering how you would describe your children and their reflections on you and your spouse—in as many sentences as you want.
Or tell us what your parental dynamic is in the tasks that you and your spouse assign.
Let’s have the conversation no one else is having about dads in the 21st century.
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