Research from 2010 found that dads with young children in the 2000s spent two-to-six times more time caring for their kids than dads from the 1970s and 1980s.

I was born in 1980, so for me, this means I’m making much of this up. Hence the years spent on this blog. Not to say that my dad isn’t great, he is, but things were different. If you were born after me, it’s still the same. We’re all making this fatherhood thing up. That’s OK, as long as we keep thinking about it, learning about it, trying new things and being willing to change when things stop working. And also going easy on ourselves, because people have been doing this for millennia and things have worked out OK (mostly). So, feeling like you’re making it up is normal.