Why DUDE?

So you may be reading this and figuring that DUDE just makes sense. I'm a guy, starting a blog, of course I'm going to refer to myself as a dude, right? Well there is more to it than just that. Yes, the term "dude" does bring a certain "cool" factor, but there is also the matter of my employment. I stay at home with my two boys - something that is becoming more and more common these days. They even have a term for these guys: "Stay At Home Dad", and this is often shortened to SAHD. The acronym, while fitting, is rather...well....sahd. No one wants to go around introducing themselves as a "SAHD". We stay-at-home Dads deserve a better acronym.

All of those Dads who are staying home with kids, managing schedules and changing diapers deserve a better acronym than SAHD. The people over at Fatherly.com did some thinking and came up with a list of better acronyms for those men who are also domestic fathers. For some of the options they came up with 15 you can read about here.  After reading these and deciding that none of them really fit me all that well, I went on ahead and developed my own.

Daddy

Under
Domestic
Employment

Now while it might be slightly misleading to think that I actually have some kind of job outside the duties and responsibilities of my Dad-dom, any person who has done this will tell you straight up that raising kids is a job. It just depends on your life situation as to whether that is your ONLY job or not. Based on my business card, my job duties currently include, but are not limited to:

• Chauffeur
• Nurse
• Dragon Rider
• Executive Chef
• Tech Support
• Sanitation Engineer
• Life Coach
• Handyman
• Batting Practice Pitcher
• Head Landscaper
• Chief Conflict Resolver
• Homework Tutor
• Entertainment Coordinatior
• Jedi Knight

Go ahead and read the article, and leave your thoughts in the comments section. What is the best acronym for those dads who take the primary role in keeping the house and raising their children? And if you're interested in my shirt - which was recently featured on Huffington Post and a number of other websites - it can be purchased in T-shirt (men's and women's sizes) and sweatshirt form, from the National At-Home Dad Network