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Thank Goodness
for Stay at Home Dads

By Dani Avery for JobsForMoms.com

Recently, in the park with my granddaughters… sharing the recreational equipment with other stay at home dads and moms out playing with their kids and grandchildren, I had the chance to watch first hand some of the differences between stay at home dads and stay at home moms.

Getting a child to leave the park can be exhausting and embarrassing for any parent, but what about poor dad learning his way through parenting with the male handicap: an innate ability to ask for directions. Dad can successfully boss around a whole team of people to create a successful company. How humiliating it must be for dad to find himself completely helpless in getting his little toddler to leave the playground.

Over and over he tried unsuccessfully to coax his toddler from the slide area. The only things in the park older than I were the trees. I figured I’d offer him some advice.

"Hello", I greeted. “I hope you know that he probably will stay here all night?”

The young man looked at me and said, “What?”

“Well you have two choices, either let him stay here all night or follow you when you turn to leave slowly.”

Looking at me with a small smile he turns to his son and says, “Time to go home Parker, let’s go now.”

As the young man walked slowly away, the toddler immediately ran after his father.

Of course we will never know for sure if the child just gave up.

His hand flew up in thanks as I watched them leave the park.

I was thinking, “Dad, you don’t have to thank me, it was my pleasure.” Stay at home dads, God bless ‘em, are too rare a species. It was nice to be able to watch one…. a dad confident enough to take a little suggestion and do what he had probably known to do anyway.

“LIZZIE, LINDSAY 10 MORE MINUTES,” I call to my 10 and 6 year old granddaughters. They know this grandparent. In about ten minutes I’ll call again and start heading to the car hoping they’ll follow me.

Dani Avery is a mom, a grandmother, and a Contributing Writer for JobsForMoms.com.

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Thank Goodness for Stay at Home Dads

Thank Goodness
for Stay at Home Dads