Real talk from real dads
Essays, diaries and stories about raising kids as gay dads — the good, the bad and the “we should have known.”
“Daddy, I peed on my hand”
There’s a super annoying YouTube video that our kids love to watch about this little cartoon girl who nags her dad, “Daddy! Daddy! DaddyDaddyDaddyDaddy!” The father, who’s reading his newspaper finally answers angrily “WHAT?!” Never mind what happens later in the video (the girl tells him that she found a poop in the back yard…
Daddy Squared: Mission Possible?!
So far on our podcast you’ve heard us talking about being gay dads with twins and now we’d like to show you some stuff too, from the lives of two gay dads and their twin boys in West Hollywood. In each YouTube episode we’re going to receive a ‘mission’ that we have to do with…
Who Will Take Home The ‘Gabys’? Vote Now
It was just a matter of time, wasn’t it?! Everyone else has done it so now, introducing, the Daddy Squared Movie Awards. Our season finale this season, will hand a magnificent ‘Gayby’ Statuette in multiple categories of movies for kids and gay dads. The red carpet will be magnificent; Yan will be wearing Old Navy,…
Single Gay Dad Dating Guide
Stefan Simonovic* These days, being a single parent is a difficult challenge, however, being a single gay parent is something not a lot of people can manage. Gay dads are facing a lot of problems on a daily basis. They are being discriminated and harassed for having a different sexual orientation. Also, a lot of…
Gay Divas: Download The Coloring Book
A little something to do while you’re stuck at home: As a token of gratitude to all the dads in the world (and guncles, never forget the guncles!), we have worked on this awesome coloring book of gay icons, so that your kids can do their art AND also learn critical Divas 101 along the…
Long Island and Queens: Gay Dads’ Community with The LGBT Network
One of our goals at Daddy Squared is to help create communities for gay dads and prospective dads. The LGBT Network has been doing exactly that in Long Island and Queens for seven years now. With an amazing number and variety of events for LGBTQ families, and with constant care for the prospective dad community,…
Is This The End of ‘Twiblings’ Era? Surrogacy Agencies Advise Against Twin Pregnancies
Over the past few months we’ve been hearing stories from gay dads, especially from outside of the U.S., about the difficulty in finding a surrogacy agency that agrees to help with a ‘twiblings’ pregnancy (twins from same egg donor, but sperm provided by one of each). We tried to figure out why this is happening,…
Musical Beds
How, for heaven’s sake, did I find myself fighting over sleeping space with our dog, folded like a magician’s assistant inside a slice box, in a 5-foot toddler bed at 2am?As we go through the “coming to daddies bed” phase every night, I struggle endlessly for my basic human right to sleep… somewhere for the…
How We Failed Toilet Training
I don’t know what it’s like in your families, but where I come from it seems as if our value as parents is measured exclusively by how advanced our kids are. It’s all ‘Push them! Push them!’ attitude: ‘Get them to sit up by 3 months!’ ‘Get them to walk by 9 months!’ ‘What?! They…
Daddy Squared: The Podcast! Listen and Subscribe Here!
Welcome to Daddy Squared: The Gay Dads Podcast! Husbands and dads Yan Dekel and Alex Maghen bring out issues that arise in the gay dads community as they discover the world of parenthood. Scroll down to the episode guide Click to subscribe to the podcast: And please, please please! Rate and review us!Send us an…
Beverly Hills Fertility Doctor Offers Advice on Planning Parenthood for Gay Men
After struggling with fertility in his personal life, Dr. Shahin Ghadir helps countless gay couples become dads. We caught him for an interview prior to his next presentation for intended gay parents and came out with an idea that might help reduce the cost of surrogacy (at least a little) . We often joke about…
Dad Squad
“Sometimes in relationships there is a sort of lack of sexual stimulation, right? like, two people kinda start to drift apart. Sometimes that can be an indicator that maybe it’s not the right relationship anymore. But other times it maybe useful to talk about ways of spicing up the sexual relationship and that can include…
Embracing the “Imperfecter” Parent
Parenting is Challenging, especially when we look around and it seems like other people’s parenting is effortlessly perfect. On Saturday we took our kids to Downtown Los Angeles, to play at the famous fountains at Grand Park. Whoever thought of this idea is an absolute genius. In a city where the ocean is a) Icy…