Today's Guest Dad is.....me. OK, before you feel cheated and enraged, know that I did try two fathers for this Tuesday, but for various reasons -- including the fact that I'm actually on vacation, like many of you -- their posts couldn't be arranged in time. (Remember, I'd love to have Guest Dad volunteers; see my call for them here.)

While I'm not a father, I do live with one and know many more, so I feel qualified to step into their shoes for just a minute. Today, I'd like to talk about Daddy dating.

A few years ago when I was the Sun's family issues reporter, I wrote a fun piece on "mommy dating," which is shorthand for the weird dance moms do to try to make friends with other moms, particularly when their children seem to be getting friendly. The story went into the problems that can arise when the kids click but the moms just don't, and how you get out of a not-so-great mom-to-mom relationship.

So, how do dads make friends with other dads around their children? I've noticed that men seem to feel pretty uncomfortable in this area, and consequently they may feel like they're sort of along for the ride when they get together with another family for the first time.

I know stay-at-home dads naturally have to navigate this terrain on the playground, so maybe they could tell us how they do it. Working dads, do you feel that it's mom's job to form friendships with other families? Would you feel weird about calling another dad (whose child is friends with your child through school) to get together with the kids? Why or why not?