I'm establishing this blog with my partner because we feel that there aren't enough voices out there espousing our values and we want to speak more publicly about what drives and motivates us in our parenting. In exposing ourselves this way, we hope to begin a discussion on parenting in a digital age and to investigate our own precepts in a comprehensive manner.
From my viewpoint, there is a dearth of active discussion revolving around being a father, role-modeling masculinity in this modern world and sharing the enjoyment of emerging forms of entertainment with the generation that won't have experienced a world without the technology that was only beginning it's rise to prominence through my junior years.
Some of the topics that I intend to address initially are around the perception of males in care-giving roles, the serious lack of discussion around parenting that includes males as sensible role-models and the associated casual misandristic perception of men as incompetent or unwilling caregivers. In some ways, this is self-inflicted but the reason to begin discussing this situation is to share ways in which this ongoing mainstream perception can be reversed.
There will also be some fun topics thrown in with entertainment reviews discussing sharing modern media with our children and, hopefully, highlighting choices of games where we can either share the joy with them or be an active participant in the play.
In this first week, I will post regarding some of my initial precepts introduced through the context of a movie scene that I feel lays the ground for the discussion of how unprepared I was made for "adult"-life, children and accepting responsibility for my future. I will also get a structure together for how I intend to review multimedia and post regarding that (and any feedback would be appreciated if there are areas that would be useful to cover that I miss) as well as, maybe, an initial test review.
See you in the next post...
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