Parents who change with the times!

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The ideal parenting goal that all parents seek always seems to be on the move, doesn’t it? It’s very difficult to hit that bouncing bullseye when you just won’t sit still while the role of the ideal parent keeps changing. However, the funny thing is that often we do not even notice that the role of parents changes until it has already changed. Often we just feel like it changes in some way and we just get carried away, huh? We just do our best in these ever-changing times, and then one day someone points out how parenting has changed and we say, “Yeah, that’s what I’ve been seeing too!” So here’s the bottom line, fatherhood today is not the fatherhood of our parents.

Today, parents are doing things their parents never did. Today’s parents work like their parents. But now, in addition, they also wash clothes, dishes, clean, put the children to bed and prepare lunches the next day, like all the moms out there. Parents even do these things sometimes instead of watching the ball game. Imagine that! Could the parents of yesteryear even imagine this new parental role? Parenting sure has changed. Men have changed. Fatherhood has changed. And once again, the world has been slow to recognize it.

All of you men I know you thought you would one day be superheroes saving the world. But instead, he is now changing diapers and saving his pennies so he can continue to be the great dads and husbands that they are. Well, I say keep doing what you’re doing. You are forgotten heroes. And know this, you are also highly appreciated, even if you rarely hear it out loud.

Now, as my grandfather always said: “Go learn, lead and open the way to a better world for all of us.” Dads change with the times and are still the good men that you are. The world is a better place because of your efforts. And once again parents, you too Super Dads, thank you in advance for all that you do, and all that you will do …

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