CT Dads proudly offers camaraderie and conversation to any stay-at-home dad or male primary caregiver in Connecticut with our next social drop-in scheduled for Sunday, March 19th at 6 PM in a Middletown restaurant yet to be chosen (info below on signing up).

These monthly meetings started six months ago after two stay-at-home dads returned to Connecticut from the National At-Home Dad Network’s annual convention and decided to meet up for dinner.

Once we had dates on the calendar we invited the few other stay-at-home dads we knew. Our next dinner had 3 people, then 5, and so on.

We’ve now got a small network of dads who show up for each other when we can and occasionally text each other about whatever’s going on in our lives.

Two people who joined our January meeting said it was the first time they had ever met another stay-at-home dad in real life.

We’re a very casual crew.

It’s never been the same group of people twice and we’re always happy adding one more seat at the table.

We don’t offer much: just one dinner a month and an open invitation to talk or, preferably, text any time.

For many of us, that’s enough.

But we’re also an access point to a national network of dads who have put being their family’s primary caregiver first.

This network two mental health support groups a week, an amazing virtual book club, webinars, podcasts, articles, and an annual HomeDadCon weekend for professional development, charity, and socialization.

We’re also affiliated with City Dads Group, an organization focused on building in-person meet ups in cities all over the United States and championing the fellowship of fatherhood.

Our affiliate organizations inspire us every day with amazing offerings and it’s our pleasure to direct you to them.

But if what you most need is to get out of the house and meet with similarly-situated dads who “get it,” we’re here with camaraderie you can count on and a couple of texts each month.

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Here’s how it works:

Send me an email at chris@ctdads.com telling me what phone number or Messenger account you want to be contacted on, then I’ll reach out and introduce myself.

Now that we’ve got each others’ numbers, you can text me anytime day or night (I shut off notifications as needed, but will respond) if you want to chat.

And I’ll reach out to you twice a month with a personal message. I will never add you to a group text without your permission.

The first text will let you know the next meeting’s date and the second will let you know which restaurant we’re going to and ask if you’re able to attend.

Why not just decide earlier and only send one text? Because checking in on each other is sort of the whole point.

Well why not just send an email? Because stay-at-home dads only use email for taxes and password resets.

And if we ever forget to text you, or texting isn’t your thing, check back here at www.ctdads.com where they’ll both be posted whenever the decisions are made.