Why Do We Praise
Dads for Just Being
Dads?
We dads routinely get praised for things moms are expected to do every day. Shouldn't
we be held to the same standard?
By limo yator.
It's a crisp Saturday morning, and i am walking
down streets of Eldoret My infant son, John is secured to my chest in an Ergobaby carrier. i am
also holding two bags of groceries. The boy and the food total about forteen kilograms evenly distributed, and i am
not struggling in the least. Suddenly, a twenty something years oldman walking the opposite way makes eye contact with
me. His gaze moves from my eyes to the baby carrier, then back to me. At the precise moment we pass, he says, softly but definitively, “You’re a great father, man.” My immediate thought was that there must be some other dad behind me simultaneously changing the diapers of triplets. Or empathizing with his teenage daughter. I turn around. There’s no other
parenting going on. It’s me he is talking about. Yes, I am
definately a great father. I manage to complete my roughly
Ten minutes journey from the supermarket and hike up the four flights of stairs to our apartment, my son alive, my groceries intact, my devotion to family totally validated, and my
attitude slightly more sanctimonious than when I left to run some errands.
3 comments:
that deserves some praise
Everyman can be a Dad but it takes a huge resposbility to be a father
that is the attribute of a responsible father!
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