[melissa_bear003]

Originally Posted by KatiesEd-dad

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!

I never understand how a Dad being a Dad could diminish Momma's role...but I've seen that attitude play out before.

As I said previously, I can understand where the expert's opinion comes from. I can. I'd still like to know more about the study conducted that says men are less likely to assist a child though.

I just think that its a sad comment on our society that men are viewed as a potential threat to a lost child. Seriously, if they did a study and discovered that the majority of sex offenders were Asian, CC, AA...would you tell your child not to approach ppl of that race? No, because that would be racist. But its ok to assume that all men are potential predators.

I tell my kids to find another parent. Its not that I don't give them safety training...its just that finding a parent makes sense, and I'm not going to teach my son, or my dds that men are dangerous, or women 'safe'. Its Stranger Danger teaching I do with them...because women have kidnapped children too.

I just get extremely frustrated when we experience Diva being turned down for playdates because I'm not home, but dh is. Or seeing my dh being viewed with suspicion because he's playing with the kids. "Why does he spend so much time with them?" Yeah, I'm not kidding.