Ouch

On the perils of stay-at-home dadhood.

This little scene says something about a basic condition of at-home dadhood: Isolation. You spend your days in Mamaworld, especially out here in the suburbs, living in strange detachment because you’re not female. Shunned is too strong a word, but don't look for full acceptance and membership in the mama’s parenting club. Usually, you don't even go to the meetings. The obvious solution is to connect with other at-home men, easy to find these days, but we don’t connect so well. We just don’t. Others agree with me here. I blame shame, the monster isolator.

Sad.