moms | DADvocacy Consulting

The DADDYING blog provides commentary, research, personal narratives, reviews & recommendations, and other creative expressions from

a diverse group of parenting colleagues, guest writers, and experts to raise awareness and promote the benefits of lifelong dad involvement.

Allan Shedlin

Sep 13, 2023

The Queen of Goodbye

Writer Jane Ehrenfeld shares how she and her daughter with special needs are challenged to cope with constant back-to-school changes.

Allan Shedlin

Jul 29, 2021

Thanks to Encouraging Moms Who Make Our Daddying Possible

Editor Scott Beller celebrates all dadvocating moms, especially the woman who makes his being an involved dad possible: his wife Elisabeth.

Allan Shedlin

Mar 17, 2021

A Long Year of Reflection and Daddy Blogging

Just as daddying doesn’t take place in a vacuum, but within multiple contexts and social systems, so it has been with our Daddying blog.

Allan Shedlin

Mar 4, 2021

First and Foremost It’s About the Children

DADvocacy can rightly be viewed as encouraging enhanced partnerships between fathers and mothers.

Allan Shedlin

Dec 10, 2020

Give and Receive the Gift Of Reading Together This Holiday Season

I remember my mom reading to me almost every day as a kid. I remember hearing her voice, warm, energetic, and song-like...

When It Comes to Protecting Families and Human Rights, We're Partisan Dads and Moms

Our Daddying Thoughts Post-Election

Dear Dads, You're Neither Damned nor Doomed