Weary Parent: Parenting Tweens & Teens

Single Fatherhood

by SP on October 17th, 2006

” I take my three-year-old son, Myles, to the park at the corner of our street almost every day. People who frequent the park are used to seeing us — father and son in the sandbox, on the climber or chasing each other. Recently I was talking with one of the women who walks her dog there. I told her that two years ago my wife, Susan, died.

“You’re single?” she blurted out incredulously.
“Yes.”
“I had no idea.”
“Well, of course not,” I shrugged. “How could you?”
“You’re doing a great job with your son,” she said immediately with maudlin approval.”

The whole point of this article is how people perceive you. Do different standards apply if you are a divorced father, a father that stays home while the wife works, or a widower bringing up children on his own?

What are your thoughts on the topic?

And have you checked out our latest bloggers in the family channel?
Careers and Kids (a great article on finger scanning for work)

Inside Fatherhood ( I picked up a few tricks that I could have used when my two were little. Now this is one smart dad!

Parents Behaving Badly ( The world really doesn’t need parents like this. Sometimes the real world sucks!!

Solo Mother ( She loves her rituals and I can see why. I’m exactly the same way. Even today, Britt and I go and play tennis every Sunday morning. It’s time for just the two of us and I’m hoping that it means just as much to her, as it does to me.

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