With special guest:
- Clint Greagen
…in conversation with Bill Kable
Our guest today provides us with an entertaining peek into what is still an unusual career in our society. Clint Greagen is a stay-at-home Dad with the skills of an award-winning blogger who tells us about his life in suburban Melbourne with four boy-children and a loving working wife.
There is nothing un-masculine about Clint’s struggles as he is assigned to buy breast pads for his wife and to do the cooking / washing / cleaning for the family. He has to juggle these responsibilities and apply some logic in the middle of the chaos and craziness.
Reservoir Dad is in turn hilarious, bracingly honest and sometimes heartbreaking. Clint manages to stir a range of emotions while at the same time he keeps it real. Every one of us who has the experience of a family upbringing will identify with what Clint describes so enthusiastically and come to a conclusion about what really matters in life.
Listening to Clint makes it very easy to understand why he has legions of fans. Women love him, men admire him.
This is a real treat for our listeners today.
Clint Greagen
When Clint Greagen became a stay-at-home dad he turned to blogging to connect with the world - and stay sane. His Reservoir Dad blog won best Australian Blog 2013 in the Personal and Parenting category. Clint lives in Reservoir with wife Tania, and sons Archie, 9, Lewis, 7 Tyson, 4, and Maki, 2.
Clint quit his job to become a stay at home dad when his oldest son Archie was two and recalls that some of his co-workers were bemused and there was even the odd occasion when his manliness was questioned. As usual, he sought refuge in writing. He wrote a crime novel or three before the demands of his new day job led him to turn away from longer writing projects in favour of blogging to connect with the world - and other stay-at-home parents - and to stay sane.
Song selection by our guest: Stimulation by Wa Wa Nee
Note: This program is an encore presentation of the one aired on 25th December 2014.