This blog is for Scott who donated $20.00 to the Canadian Red Cross. As most of you know, Haiti was hit by another earthquake this morning: 6.1 on the Richter scale. Now more than ever, Haitian survivors need our help. Remember, every amount, big or small, does make a difference.
Thank you so much for your support.
I was thinking the other day about my Dad. He and I aren’t very close. We talk maybe once every six months. He’s from the generation that as long as his children had food on the table, clothes on their backs, and a roof over their heads, his job as a father was done. He was a PROVIDER, and I have to say, a very good one. I never lacked for anything.
However, on an emotional level, my father wasn’t as providing. It’s not because he lacked feelings…he just didn’t express them. Nor did he want anything to do with what he considered to be the “Mom” duties.
Nowadays, oh how the times have changed. The new generation of fathers are very EMO when it comes to being a parent. They’re changing the diapers, drinking imaginary tea in tiny plastic cups, helping their wives clean the house, taking the children out before their wives want to “take them out”, making supper, and having heart to heart conversations with their little ones and establishing trusting relationships so that the teenage years might not be so rough on both parent and child.
Bravo!
Parenting is not an easy job. I admire anyone who undertakes raising a family. I mean you’re essentially making a lifetime commitment to people who will emotionally and financially depend on you for at least 18 years.
Scary.
So saying, when I see pictures of parents with their children, especially Dads holding their babies, or playing with their sons and daughters…I get a little bit less scared. The happiness, the pride, the laughter, and the love I see on their faces makes me think that not only is their hope for this generation of little ones…but hope for me as a future parent…way way in the future.
