Black, Bill

As dads, Bill Black and Tom Tozer were sometimes duds-or at least they felt that way. Being told that confession was good for the soul, they admitted (at least to each other) that they felt unappreciated, ignored, even invisible in their own homes. They were ghosts at the dinner table.

Wait a minute! They both ran university departments, managed budgets and built teams. They won awards and published articles. But at home, when confronted with the mighty teen trinity-the sigh, the eye roll and the under-the-breath mutter-they wilted like week-old celery.

So they decided to put it all in...