At-Home Dads Resources
| Slowlane.com is an online resource for Stay-at-home-Dads (SAHD) and their families. Established as a reference, resource and network to assist fathers who have made (or are considering) the decision to stay at home and raise their children. Slowlane.com is operated as a free service for Dads and at-home-Dads. http://www.slowlane.com |
| At Home Dad Network The At-home Dad Network is a loose-knit, grassroots organization for primary care Dads who want to start up or join any activity to help connect with at-home Dads. http://www.athomedad.net |
| Family and Home Network educates the
public about at-home mothers, at-home fathers, and those who work part-time or work at home. Publishers of the award winning monthly newsletter, Welcome Home. Join our efforts to make public policies fair to parents who provide child care for their own children. http://www.familyandhome.org/ |
| Maryland Dads: Welcome to Maryland's premier online community for stay-at-home Dads. Here, at-home fathers can meet, share stories, ideas, and parenting information, and find camaraderie among a diverse group of Dads sharing the joy of raising their children. http://marylandDads.com |
| Serving the Louch Family World Wide: www.louch.org |
| BOBYSBoutique.com is an online boutique started by a local SAHM. It features custom made and one of a kind children's clothing. |
| Life Blender the Blog: http://www.lifeblenderblog.blogspot.com/ |
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Tampa Area Dads - At Home: We are a group of Dads in the central Florida area who stay at home to take care of our children, families, and our homes. If you would like to meet with a group of supportive Dads who may share your lifestyle, chores, frustrations, and victories; this may be a group for you. We plan to meet for informal sporting events, lunch, playgroups, or other wholesome activities. You can reach us by email at ch10dad@yahoo.com or visit our group page at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TampaDads |
| All Experts: A full time stay at home
father with a Masters in Social Work, offers advice or answers questions from fathers (or mothers) who are staying at home with their kids or thinking about staying at home with their kids. I can help the person connect with other fathers in their area or offer advice on how to reduce the isolation. Also, I can offer tips on things to do with the kids and on discipline matters. http://www.allexperts.com/displayExpert.asp?Expert=37338 |
| Online Playgroup is an Internet resource for finding, starting, and managing a playgroup or parents' group. We have an extensive directory of playgroups and parents' groups around the world, plus practical information for starting a playgroup and a variety of free online tools for playgroups. Visit our site for a web-based calendar, books, kits as well as our very popular weekly articles on starting and managing playgroups. http://www.onlineplaygroup.com |
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| Activities & resources for families in
the Washington, DC Metro area http://www.our-kids.com/index.html |
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For all kinds of
resources, including a virtual summer camp fair running January through
June 2005
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| PG Parents Club: This is a site for parents and their kids living in Prince Georges County, Maryland. The Parents Club shares information and provides a resource for organizing local events and activities. We have playgroups for the 0-4 age set, links for places to go with infants and toddlers and more! http://www.pgparents.org or go to their yahoo groups page at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pgparents/ |
| New Austin Dads group: Austin's Stay at Home Dads http://austin-sahds.tripod.com/ |
| Washington Parent Magazine The most trusted parenting publication in the Washington Metro area in print, online and at special events. http://www.washingtonparent.com/index.htm |
Resources for Fathers:
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Children's Rights Council (CRC) |
| National Center on Fathers and Families (NCOFF) |
Books on being a stay-at-home Dad from Amazon.com:
Go to www.amazon.com and search books for Stay at Home Dads. There should get about 95,000 results!
Sites for Parents:
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BabyCenter |
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Carolina Baby Connection |
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It Takes a Parent |
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Labor of Love, The |
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My ParenTime |
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Nani Net |
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Parent City |
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ParentsPlace.com |
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ParenthoodWeb |
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Parenting On The Go |
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Parenting Q&A |
| Parent Soup |
Resources for Working Moms of At-Home Dads
| DC MAWDAH (Moms at Work, Dads at Home) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dcmawdah |
| MAWDAH (Moms at Work, Dads at Home)
mailing list. This discussion list (formerly MDAH-list) was started in
July 1998 as a place for working mothers to support and commiserate with
each other as our husbands have assumed the primary caregiver roles for our
children. For more information, or to join this group send an email to; owner-mawdah@sportsstats.com |
| Parent's Place: An informational web
site for all aspects of parenting. Geared toward women, the site has discussion boards of great interest to the wives of stay at home Dads. Part of the iVillage family. http://www.parentsplace.com/ |
| When Breadwinner is Mom: http://messageboards.ivillage.com/iv-ppbreadwin |
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A message board for spouses who travel often: http://messageboards.ivillage.com/iv-pptravelalot
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Other Sites for Moms: