Hey, Dads!

Author Hogan Hilling is finishing up his second book. This one is about dads for moms, and he wants to hear from YOU! The purpose of this blog is to allow you to share your thoughts—your perspective on parenting—with Hogan and other dads . . . and moms will eventually get the message, because Hogan’s latest book is for moms. Here’s a way to share your thoughts with women without risking a fight with your wife!

Do you:

• Wish your wife would save some time for romance?
• Feel overwhelmed by pregnancy and childbirth?
• Feel a lot of financial pressure that your wife seems unaware of?
• Feel guilty when you don’t spend time with your kids, even if it’s because you’re spending all your time making money?
• Hope you won’t turn into your own dad?
• Feel capable of taking care of your kids and the household if your wife would just step back once in awhile?
• Wish your wife would stop playing Super Mom?
• Wish you wouldn’t feel so pressured to be a Super Dad?
• Feel that dads play an important role in their kids’ lives, even though it’s different than what moms do?
  

If you have concerns, frustrations, and confusion about how your wife parents or about your role as a dad that you can’t seem to discuss openly with your wife, this is a place to discuss them. Hogan personally reads all comments that are posted to this blog.

Just click “Post Comment” below and share your thoughts. Hogan may even publish them in Men Behaving Dadly: What Dads Want Moms to Know about Them!

You can also visit Hogan’s blog for moms at http://www.whatmomswantdadstoknow.blogspot.com/. This is a site for women to share their concerns and frustrations for Hogan’s third book, What Moms Want Dads to Know about Them. Tell your wife!

Below are comments from other dads.

“I let my kids play in the rain the other day. My wife got upset. I told her that’s what dads do with their kids, they let them play in the rain. She said, ‘But the kids will get sick.’ I told her that was a myth. Kids can’t get sick from playing in the rain.”

“My father was an alcoholic and a real son-of-a-bitch. Hardnosed, tough guy, wouldn’t give me an inch. If I got out of line, I’d be getting a whipping from his belt. I was afraid of my father. I don’t want my child to be afraid of me.”

“I want my wife and other people to view my contribution as a father as more than just a walking bank account. I think our kids benefit from a lot of things I do that go unnoticed.”

“My dad wasn’t only a great father, he was a great husband. Yeah, he and my mom had their disagreements and challenges, but he treated my mom with the utmost respect. It’s going to be hard, but I want to be just like him.”