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[quote=Anonymous]We live in Dubai and we see a lot of these bro dads, but they're mostly Australians or South Africans. I think it really has to do with growing up in a place where you spend so much time outside because the weather is great and that encourages the development of outgoing behavior and a preference for outdoor activities. They are always hitting the beaches with their kids, swimming, kite sailing, paddle boarding, or going dune bashing in the desert, or camping in the mountains on the weekends. They drive big 4x4s and are mostly in good physical shape though by mid 40s the beer will start to catch up. A lot have tattoos. The kids love them.

Interestingly enough, they tend not to sail. Our sailing club doesn't have bro dads. The men are more.... "grown up". I'm not implying I find the bro dads immature, but it's just a different attitude to life that makes them seem younger and they probably find sailing too staid. And that's just fine. It takes all sorts to make this world of ours.

Since we are talking about cliches, what about these:

The preppy dads? Former lacrosse players who are loyal alums of their private schools and turn a blind eye at their son's wild antics because boys will be boys?

The hipster dads who can't get over getting older and still have scruffy beards and play in a band on the weekend and brew their own beer?

The emasculated urban liberal dad who panders to every social justice cause and takes his kids to all the protests even though the kids really don't understand what's going on and are little more than pawns of their parents' political beliefs?

The banker dads, who don't know what to do with their children so they never come home till after the kids are asleep?

The "smart" dads, usually doctors and science researchers and more intellectual lawyers and professors, who are too smart to understand why little kids are different from adults and fail to understand children grow up at different paces and levels of maturity.

Any others?

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