In honor of Father’s Day, I’m reblogging this post on fantastic fathers in the Animal Kingdom. I’d love to hear how your own dad or your child(ren)’s dad is king!
Dads aren’t babysitters. Dads aren’t wageworkers. I’m guilty at times of treating my husband like an hourly babysitter. I (we) need to stop doing this. We’re not being fair to our husband/partner/child’s parent, etc.
Dads are coparents. Don’t infantilize them. Don’t insult them. Give dads a chance to raise your children. They may surprise you. (And the more time dads spend with your children, the more time you get to be a stay-in-bed mom!)
While I’m no zoologist (merely a zoo enthusiast), I’ve found exemplary examples of coparenting dads in the Animal Kingdom. I may not have biology or zoology credentials, only a zoo membership card, but as a mother of two young children, I’ve logged an impressive number of observation hours during my family’s “field visits” to our local zoo. Here are a few rockstar dads I discovered while visiting the zoo and browsing the Internet. For every “deadbeat”…
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Striving for equality in the home is tricky… but I definitely feel progress is being made. 🤗
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Me too, I agree 🤗 Men and women have unique strengths and weaknesses as parents. It’s always interesting to think about what’s innate and what’s learned or socialized.
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I think most is leant, taught or social. I am not convinced it’s innate. Or perhaps I don’t want to believe it because it feels like a ‘get out of jail free’ card. 😆
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I totally agree with you. 😂 I thought this article was interesting. Link: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hope-relationships/201402/brain-differences-between-genders
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