For starters, let me flag this cover story from USA Today about kids doing their own back-to-school shopping. Why? Because the parent letting the kids in the story's introduction run wild in the mall ... is an at-home dad. And yet the story never lingers on the point. I rather like seeing the media occassionally treat Rebel Dads like perfectly usual members of society. (Kids shopping on their own? Major Trend! At-home dad? Part of the American family fabric. Yawn.)

Something to add to the reading list: the New York Times runs this review of a newly published Nathaniel Hawthorne book that recounts the great author's three weeks of at-home daddydom with his five-year-old son. Says Paul Auster, the guy who brought the short book to print: "It should be the bible of all the housefathers, the stay-at-home fathers today." Off to amazon I go ...


Finally, the stoller daddy phenomenon has caught blog-fire among parental-type blogs, with two more dismissive thoughts from daddies (Laid-Off Dad and frenzied daddy) and one of-course-stroller-daddies-are-hot piece by MomBrain).