More than Reading, Riting and Rithmetic

Just a quick for those potential businessmen and woman out there who are down on their luck in these economic times and are thinking of marketing fatherhood. ("Why?" you ask. I don't know, ask them.)

It could be a trend, but it also seems like an turnoff for a large part of the audience to make prepping for daddydom like having to go to school. But the school metaphors do seem to rule these days as Duncansville (Pa.) pop Matt Good enrolled in a four-week "Doctor Dad" course — at least he'll get an advanced degree.

Also along school lines, Chicago dad Harlan Cohen has just released a sort of Sparks Notes version for those studying up on fatherhood. His new book, Dad's Pregnant Tool, pulls on his experience as the father of a newborn son and that of a few others to push out an overview of other people's experiences that (hopefully) will be of use to student daddies.

And, finally, it is not as if the learning ever stops as veteran dad Tony Hicks offers with his melancholy paean to how he has to "relearn" everything, now that he's got a six-week old daughter.

Alas, that's dad, the perpetual student.