Lauriegood , that is THE cutest idea about a Dad's talent show. Wow! I'm impressed.
Our dads put on the Halloween Carnival for the most part; a few moms pitch in but it's mostly dads. I even typed on the sign up sheet :
"A MUST FOR ALL DADS!". That sort of shames them into it plus all the moms just sign them up. It works out very well. We don't have a formal Dad's Club right now although they may have had something like that at the school at one time.
Shelly

Our School has something called Dad's Night. It's an annual "talent" (use the term loosely) show where the Dads spend 5-6 months meeting weekly, writing skits, writing songs, making costumes, getting donations, building sets, etc., for two nights of shows in the spring. The first show was in 1944 -- by Dads who had come back from WWII and wanted to do something for/with the kids!!! It's an amazing 60-year tradition and they raise $30,000-$40,000 every year for the school (mostly through ad sales in the show program). The Dads who participate enjoy the weekly meetings (pizza and beer are often involved). The kids love to see their Dads acting goofy in the crazy show!

Daddio- My husband hated the PTA and even went so far to call them the anti-christ. Why? Because they made him a widower! It's been a long hard year but guess what? He is now my Vice President! All it took was getting him to the convention and meeting the remarkable people that I work with everyday and them to welcome him with open arms.
I think a Dad's Club is terrific. We need so many more men to become involved instead of thinking that it's the wife's job to do that or that they'd be out of place. They give our groups a dynamic that has been missing for soooo long.
Did you know that in 1899 the PTA convention's object was to get more fathers involved and that is why the National Congress of Mothers became the PTA? Over 100 years later and we still have very few men involved compared to women.
Why is that?
With the addition of my husband, we now have 50/50 male participation.
Anyhow, let me know how it goes and what you method you use to do it. It sounds like a great idea!

When I mention to my husband about him going to a PTO meeting he says, "My wife takes care of all that." I will refrain from sharing what I tell him. [img]tongue.gif[/img] Unfortunately that is the typical worldview around here. I'd like to see that helped. We have about 70 employees at my sons' school-two of those are males, one is leaving. I love to see Dads come in to help or just even eat lunch with their child. We have many single parent homes and in my opinion we could use more male role models for our kids. So if you can get a few dads together I think that is great!

Does anyone have a Dads Club at the their school? We have a few dads involved but not many as it's mostly moms.

If you have a Dads Club, does it work well? How are the dynamics with the PTO at the school? Completely independant, part of it, just work together, etc?