Friday, August 19, 2005

Let me get back to the magazine world for a moment (next week we'll get the growing pile of newspaper stories). Just finished my Men's Health and found a list they compiled on "24 Ways to Win Respect." Among the tips on doing the right thing in love, life and golf, they slip this in:
Change the blown-out diaper of a virus-laden infant without making your own stink about it.
Now it seems to me that if a similar sentiment had been expressed on the Parents "Dads" page, I'd be all bent out of shape. But something about the way it appeared in Men's Health gave me the feeling that this was non-judgmental guy-to-guy communications, not a mom using a magazine page to tsk tsk husbands. One final note: if Parents really want to make a useful "Dads" page, they could do worse than to study Men's Health's occasional "Family Guy" page.

This is wild stuff: Fast Company reports the results of a Ajilon survey that found, among other things, that 77 percent of women and 68 percent of men believe parenting improves leadership skills. So why is the working world so tilted against parents? At least most of the population gets it.

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