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The Story Of What It Means To Be A Dad Today, One Dad At A TimeEach episode, we interview one dad to get his story of being a dad.
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Costco - Dollars, Sense, & Good Values (opens the original)
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This is a special episode, an essay that I wrote for The Dad Bod Substack, thedadbod.substack.com , which is also a bit of preview for the next Dad Bod dad interview, coming this month: my dad.
Alan, Continuous Improvement of Dad (opens the original)
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With the prime friendship forming years of school behind us, making new friends in adulthood is hard. But "school" is exactly where I found myself this past May and, to my pleasant surprise, I made a friend: Alan McIntyre Smith. I was already acquainted with Alan, but on that day, sitting side-by-side in a mostly-empty school auditorium of seats not made for dad bods, we were two grown men talking like young boys with nothing to do while waiting for the teacher's next instruction. One of the man
Joe, Tennis Dad (opens the original)
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I've gotten to know Joe about as well as two dads can over five years of school events: close enough to appreciate the work he's doing as a dad to wonder how - and why - he does it. Superficially, Joe is unique at our school for his commitment to his kids' tennis endeavors. He once described to me in intricate detail the cost-benefit analysis and lived experience of choosing a daily car rental over taxi rides for his multiple-times-a-day trips to the John McEnroe Tennis Center on Randalls Island
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