In Defense Of The Stay At Home Dad

Five years ago my wife took an internship, and I took the summer off to be a stay-at-home dad. I’d just finished graduate school, and my new job at the university was a 9-month contract, leaving me with the summers off. I learned a lot that summer. I learned about my children, we had two under the age of 6. I learned that being the full time caregiver i…