Who’s Your Daddy: Celebrating Father’s Day

For Father's Day weekend 2024, Agnes and Ryan discuss what fathers do beyond providing: passing on wisdom, showing up when something goes wrong, and cooking and co-parenting. They cover changing family roles, stay-at-home dads and the "trad wife" trend, ignoring outside advice using the Aesop fable of the man, the boy and the donkey, and the value of stepfathers and male role models for those who grew up without a father.

Takeaways

• A father's job is presence and involvement, not only a paycheck, and showing up every day matters more than getting every decision right.
• Do what works for your own family's finances and personalities instead of following a traditional model or other people's opinions.
• Stepfathers and mentors who step in for children without a father deserve recognition on Father's Day too.

Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome and the lesser-celebrated holiday
• 3:19 Dads passing on wisdom to kids
• 6:30 Changing roles: stay-at-home dads and trad wives
• 12:49 The man, the boy and the donkey fable
• 14:32 What dads do: showing up and cooking
• 19:06 Dads and sons versus dads and daughters
• 20:20 Co-parenting and modern family models
• 23:51 Stepdads, single dads and blended families
• 25:24 A colleague who thought dads only provide
• 28:20 Growing up without a father and finding role models
• 33:27 Father's Day history and sign-off

Conversation and opinion, not medical, legal, tax or financial advice.