Mark Oppenheimer

In Caribbean Spanish, there is a slang term for a man who has only daughters: chancletero, which refers to a man who wears slippers (nobody is sure how the term came to refer to daughters, but Oppenheimer has some bizarre theories). Having spent nearly eight years working part-time and sharing child-care duties with his wife, Oppenheimer loves to share his stories of stay-at-home parenting, and to talk with PTAs, parenting groups, and education groups about the valuable role that men play in child-rearing. Drawing on stories from his popular “Fatherland” column, and from whatever spill he had to clean up last week, Oppenheimer engages his audience in an honest discussion of the highs, and messy lows, of fatherhood – or what he prefers to call dadhood.