Just in Time for Fathers' Day: Best Daddy Blogs

Parents magazine recently came out with the list of their Favorite Daddy Blogs ... and just to clarify, our blog could not qualify (since it is a "parents blog," not just a daddy blog, and apparently therefore not worthy of attention. I mean, now both daddy and mommy blogs can get recognized, but I guess BOTH parents writing together about their experiences is just so passé).

Thanks to DadWagon (one of the faves) for calling this Top 5 out on their blog and placing a photo of the page on TwitPic. Here are the top 5:

Daddy Dialectic
Daddy Dialectic started as creative writing lecturer Jeremy Adam Smith's journal of his experience as a stay-at-home dad. Today Daddy Dialectic is a group blog by and about dads who embrace caregiving and egalitarian relationships, a definition of fatherhood that we believe is more in tune with the landscape of 21st Century America. Jeremy also just published his book entitled Daddy Shift based on the blog.

Dads and Daughters
This is author Joe Kelly's spot for thoughts and reflections about the unique and powerful relationships between daughters and their fathers and stepfathers. He also runs TheDadMan.com, and has authored 4 books on fathering, including the best-seller Dads and Daughters: How to Inspire, Understand and Support Your Daughter.

DadCentric
DadCentric is a junta of smart, edgy, and talented writer-dads, at the forefront of a revolution whose purpose is to overthrow the outdated notions of Fatherhood. Here you'll find stories, essays, reviews, and interviews - written by and for the modern father. Jason Avant is the Founder and Managing Editor of DadCentric.

DadWagon
On of my own personal favorite dad blogs (mostly because I think the writing is the most interesting), DadWagon dives into the fatherhood experiences of four journalists in New York City "who are trying to make sense of the sometimes baffling, more often excruciating, occasionally amusing world of fatherhood." And they are: Nathan Thornburgh, contributing writer and former senior editor at TIME Magazine; Christopher Bonanos, senior editor at New York magazine; Matt Gross, freelance writer and author of the Frugal Traveler column for the New York Times; and Theodore Ross, an editor of Harper’s Magazine.

DadTalk
Created by former Los Angeles Times systems analyst Brett Levy, who blogs about life as a dad and researches a range of issues & topics related to parenting as well as posts about product recalls and safety concerns.


So that's their Top 5. But what about my other faves, like DaddyTypes and MetroDad. I guess they are not cool enough (or commercial enough ... SNAP!) to be on the list, but they are still great daddy blogs that I would recommend.

So if you're surfing the web this Fathers' Day, consider checking out some of these dudes and their thoughts on fathering/parenting in the 21st century (just don't let their wives or partners post anything online, or these blogs might lose their cool, edgy manliness -- which is, according to these now-famous bloggers, certainly not at the heart of modern fathering ... double SNAP!).