Welcome to A Father’s Voice for May 2007. My Two Worlds Colliding is this month’s column. I go to work every day, not because I want to, but because I need to in order to support my family. But my leaving is tough on all of us so I brought my children with me to work to see if it might make it easier on them. It seemed to make a positive difference for them, but made things a little bit harder on me.

I am incredibly excited to announce my first ebook is now available. It is called A New Father’s Voice, a compilation of articles specifically for expecting or new dads and includes 10 articles addressing issues many new fathers face. You can order your copy of A New Father’s Voice for only $5.00. I am also happy to report my workshop on The Power of Involved Fathers in Long Island last month was very successful. Please feel free to read the research summary I prepared for the attendees. In addition, I was recently interviewed for an article on Education.com on highly sensitive children. When it is published I will post the link to it.
A Father’s Voice is my chance to share my voice with you about the challenges and rewards I experience trying to be a very involved father while overcoming my childhood and having to work full-time away from our home. I write during the only disposable time of my day – my train ride to and from home.

My Two Worlds Colliding

By Jeremy G. Schneider, MFT

I have written quite a bit about how hard leaving my three-year old twins every morning is for me. To sum up: I hate it. I hate leaving them every morning and feel there is something fundamentally flawed with a society that makes it so difficult for parents to stay home with young children.

Yesterday that difficult experience took a surreal turn. Yesterday, I didn’t leave my children to go to work. Instead, I brought them with me! My wife and I and our children took the train and the subway together to get to where I work. I kept reminding them this is how Daddy goes to work every day and they seemed like they were trying to absorb it all.

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