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Published: October, 2009

Go Ask Your Dad, continued ...

Once we get that settled, it’s back to the house and the homework begins.

Parents will agree that homework itself is a part-time job. Usually, the kids have an entire backpack of homework to complete, not including special projects like mission reports, desert dioramas or science projects that may include moldy fruit.
   
After homework is done on Tuesdays and Thursdays, it’s time for me to take them to soccer practice; on Wednesday night, it’s religion class.
   
And I thought I was busy when I was working full time.
   
But the time at home has been worth it, really.
   
I was able to watch all three of my kids win academic achievement awards at class assemblies. I was a chaperone on field trips to the San Juan Capistrano Mission and Riley’s Farm in Oak Glen’s apple country.
   
I saw my children’s eyes light up as they grasped new academic concepts and as I read them stories in vivid details.
   
So when OC Family Executive Editor Kim Porrazzo asked me if I would write the cover story for this month’s magazine on the changing roles of dads, I really couldn’t say no. After all, I have lived that role reversal firsthand.
   
And I am a much better dad because of it.

Tony Dodero is a longtime journalist and former editor of the Daily Pilot. Contact him at doderocommunications.com.


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