When people see me with 3 girls, their face lights up with shock followed with a mixture of fear and pity. "Ooooh, Daddy's got all 3? Are you ok? How're you surviving? Etc."
I know 3 kids is hard, but all the votes of disconfidence in dad's abilities wears a guy down. Is this what the decades of TV dad mockery has brought us to? ... Homer Simpson, King of Queens, Tim "The Toolman" Taylor, Raymond Romano, Phil Dunphy ... I know I'm risking sounding all Daddy Downer, but I feel our society has led us astray here. How competent do we believe dads truly are?! What if we, instead, spoke words of life-giving identity and empowering confidence?!
So I extend a huge thank you to the few, awesome people who said something like one woman today with an affirming look, "Daddy's got all 3 today? Well done, Dad. Good job."
And to the moms everywhere who are continually told they're failing yet do this every day while their husbands work, "Well done!" I say. "Good job!"
And thank you for being awesome, my darling, Lisa Stephens!!!!!
Your thoughts?
And to the moms everywhere who are continually told they're failing yet do this every day while their husbands work, "Well done!" I say. "Good job!"
And thank you for being awesome, my darling, Lisa Stephens!!!!!
Your thoughts?