Comments on: This Just In – Dads Can Parent Too http://www.bothhandsandaflashlight.com/2008/09/26/this-just-in-dads-can-parent-too/ Parenting, Autism, and the Pursuit of Being Awesome Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:51:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Tim http://www.bothhandsandaflashlight.com/2008/09/26/this-just-in-dads-can-parent-too/comment-page-1/#comment-1480 Tim Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:47:15 +0000 http://www.bothhandsandaflashlight.com/?p=296#comment-1480 I think that's an understatement. I don't remember much of anything written about single parents either. I guess you have to be a mom with a husband (whose faults include working 60 hours/week and being too tired to interact with the kids and being incompetent with diaper changes or daily routines and not helpful with housework or marital relations among other things that can be griped about over strollers and lattes at the mall in the mornings) and 2.15 kids and some average pet and a mini-van or a Soccer-Mom Assault Vehicle to fit their demographic. Or something like that. OK, maybe I'm being unfair. But as a former morning mall-stroller-walker shunned by the stroller moms, but still able to hear their conversations because of their numbers and volume, I sometimes felt like I was listening to the audiobook version of the magazine on some of those mornings. Perhaps I'm still bitter about being shunned. :-) I think that’s an understatement. I don’t remember much of anything written about single parents either. I guess you have to be a mom with a husband (whose faults include working 60 hours/week and being too tired to interact with the kids and being incompetent with diaper changes or daily routines and not helpful with housework or marital relations among other things that can be griped about over strollers and lattes at the mall in the mornings) and 2.15 kids and some average pet and a mini-van or a Soccer-Mom Assault Vehicle to fit their demographic. Or something like that.

OK, maybe I’m being unfair. But as a former morning mall-stroller-walker shunned by the stroller moms, but still able to hear their conversations because of their numbers and volume, I sometimes felt like I was listening to the audiobook version of the magazine on some of those mornings. Perhaps I’m still bitter about being shunned. :-)

]]> By: magicdrgn http://www.bothhandsandaflashlight.com/2008/09/26/this-just-in-dads-can-parent-too/comment-page-1/#comment-1475 magicdrgn Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:37:17 +0000 http://www.bothhandsandaflashlight.com/?p=296#comment-1475 Absolutely. No dads here, but we're all about the 50/50 parenting. Parenting Magazine doesn't often recognize 2-mom families either. Absolutely. No dads here, but we’re all about the 50/50 parenting. Parenting Magazine doesn’t often recognize 2-mom families either.

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