young dads rad dads

Ok, so sometime, somewhere I read an article about how there's a whole new breed and brand of young dads. They are involved. They want to spend time at home with their families, they want to help out with the dishes, laundry, housework; they want to take little Lulu to ballet practice. And this is my man. So perhaps there is an advantage to being young parents after all. I mean, when everyone comments on how much easier it is to be a parent based on age alone (cause the older you get the more tiered you become yes?), I find those comments to be full of crap cause young and old alike can only take so much of their own children (it's all about personality and disposition people!). So now when people say "well at least your young" about having three kids before my 25th birthday, two of whom happen to only be a mere 15 months apart in age (and both boys- how ominious for me), I can smile and think to my self "why yes, I'm young and so therefore I've got it easier, my husband helps out." Thank goodness for husbands, young one's that is.

But wait. Does it count if he's already balding? Doesn't that subtract some of the youngness? :D


ps. doing a quick google search, here's some of the news articles that spurred the whole cool young involved dad thought...
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2005/01/16/gen_x_dad?pg=full (the original story I read somewhere sometime)
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1168125,00.html (got this one off of rebeldads blog)