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Originally Posted by jalapeno
And since this thread seems to be touching on two distint topics . . . I'm really surprised at the lack of respect I've personally seen given to fathers. One example - my youngest was in the hospital for a few days and I stayed there with him. One of the "nurses" and I got to talking briefly about my other kids and she asked who was taking care of them. I told her DH. She then asked me who was helping him. Huh? I kind of shook my head in confusion and said nobody. She seriously looked at me like I was from another planet. She asked if I thought he was ok on his own with them. Huh???? I think I just stared back at her with my confused look. I mean she really was an actual nurse. She had to have had some sort of formal education. Surely she's met competent men in her life??? It was so bizarre. And I was so unprepared for it (stressed and tired and all that).
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I could go on for hours about all the snarky, stupid comments that have been directed toward me while being Katie's Ed-dad. I've kind of learned to take it in stride but it does kind of tick me off at times. Just recently, when I took Katie on our first Ed-dad/Katie trip to Chicago, my DW was inundated with comments like "how could you let your husband take your daughter on a trip?" and "do you really trust your husband to take your daughter on a trip for 3 days?" and "I would never let my husband go anywhere with my kids". How sad really. While I do believe the penis crowd is a minority in child raising, there are quite a few of us out there that are very comfortable raising our children, taking them on trips and being a parent. Not to diminish "Momma's" role but we are very capable of being nurturing. I also think that Dad's that don't take an active role in raising their kids are really missing out on something special.
As I'm fond of saying...It takes a village to raise a child but just remember that there's always a village idiot!