End of Summer Dadditude 🍸

Back in the joyfully stressful parenting grinder

Hello There, Dads!

First off, we want to recognize the email in the inbox. Or more specifically, the lack-thereof emails recently. We are two full-time working Dads, and Dadditude is our passion project. We are balancing it alongside the craziness of dad-life you’re all very familiar with. We thank you for your commitment to this community and to Dadditude.

Dads Talk

Members of the Dadditude community keep on posting their #dadlife questions and tips in the app. Please come share your own thoughts or comments, learn something or help another dad.

Recently, we’ve add questions asking for help and support on:

• How to survive the grind and the crushing feelings of missing a daughter’s goodnight hugs while on night shift.

• A soon-to-be dad asking for 3 things he should be ready for.

• How to manage dad anxieties.

• and Dads sharing about their experience of loneliness.

200!

Over the past year, we’ve aggregated 200 links to Dad-focused News articles in our Dad News section of the app. That’s in 1 year of searching for interesting publications talking about dads, their needs, challenges and great work. OK, there were probably 1 million articles published about mothers in the same time frame, but it’s still progress!

Here are 3 recent articles, and you can find more in the app.

• What Popular Culture Is Telling Us About Parenting

  Modern novels, films, and television shows are a sobering reflection of society’s vastly different expectations for moms and dads.

• Reporting on Parenthood Has Made Me Nervous About Having Kids
  I’m excited to be a dad someday. But after seeing how stressed and under-supported American parents are, I’m also apprehensive.

• The struggle of fatherhood is real - so why are new dads often invisible in NHS advice?

  We hear so little about the impact pregnancy and birth can have on men, particularly those with a history of mental health problems

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New Partners and Media Mentions

On our quest to bring as many dads as possible into Dadditude, the past few months have been busy pursuing partnerships and media opportunities. Here’s what we’ve had going on!

In the Wall Street Journal

Julie Jargon mentioned Dadditude as a key resource for modern Dads. She explores the continued struggle of Moms as the ‘default parents’ and provides a number of actionable tips and resources, including Dadditude, that can help spouses begin to communicate better.

  

Dadditude participated in the Mother Honestly ‘Working Moms’ Digital Summit

Sam Goodman, Dadditude’s co-founder, hosted a panel alongside Fathering Together discussing why it can often be a struggle when Dads want to be more involved as parents, and the ways mothers can engage the dads in their family’s life to build stronger partnership. 

We explored what The Big Reset means for families. 

For Father’s Day, we spoke again with Blessing Adesiyan (Founder of Mother Honestly), Eve Rodsky (Founder of Fair Play) and Chris Anderson (Co-founder of Fathering Together) about how to start sharing more of the mental load at home, and how to stand up for working moms and dads in the workplace. Full video available here.

Dadditude partnered with the American SPCC to provide resources to more Dads

Through the SPCC, Dadditude acts as a trusted partner of the SPCC Parenting Network. We’re providing exclusive content, and partnered on an insightful IG Live leading up to Father’s Day! 

Dadditude became an official Maple Partner

We have also partnered with Maple to serve as a trusted resource within their parent marketplace, specifically supporting Dads on the platform. We’re working together on digital events, community building, and for Father’s Day, talked with Chris Bennington, their head of Growth, on the ‘Fathering with Maple’ Podcast about the importance of finding an authentic dad community, what it means to be a modern Dad, and the importance of having difficult conversations with your children. If you don’t know Maple, they’re like an operating system for families and we recommend you give them a try.

That’s it for now, folks. Thanks for reading. See you soon in the app!

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