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Research conducted on parents taking parental leave, mostly mothers, have underlined the socialising effects of this provision on its beneficiaries. From a survey carried out among thirty-eight fathers on full-time parental leave in France, this article extends that research with a study of this minority population to highlight the skills and knowledge they acquire during parental leave, and how this temporal socialisation depends on the conditions in which the leave is exercised and the men’s previous socialisation. After categorising fathers according to their perceptions of their time constraints’ management during their parental leave—“homemakers”, “deviant” fathers, and “overwhelmed” fathers, various temporal aptitudes and knowledge that the fathers state they have acquired during their leave will be investigated, in particular knowledge linked to the child’s own time pace and to managing its solicitations, as well as the organisational skills needed to simultaneously deal with parental and domestic work.