I think the guilt I felt on my first born for commuting to work and struggling to get home for bedtimes fundamentally changed me as a person and a dad. The author mentions how the times her dad dropped her off for school stand out because it was so rare. I’m lucky that that’s not the case for mine
@thejournal.ieRaising them right: Praising fathers for doing basic parenting may have made sense once, but now it risks distracting from the invisible mental load carried by mothers...
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Raising them right: Is it time to retire the phrase 'hands-on dad'?
Praising fathers for doing basic parenting may have made sense once, but now it risks distracting from the invisible mental load that mothers still tend to carry.