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They say trouble comes in threes.
They say trouble comes in threes.
You certainly won’t find everything about my adventures in parenting here on this page, but I thought I’d include a few tidbits about my boys and some links to their favorite stuff, along with a few links that are important to me on the subject of fatherhood.
Someone told me a while back that fatherhood is an “archaic” word, and I suppose he was trying to broaden my views. Perhaps he thought that I was trying to narrow the definition of a parent, specifically a gay man’s role as a dad. Whatever his intent, being a dad is one of the few things in my life that I really really wanted to be, and Dad is the most important title I have. I am all for kicking the stereotypes to the curb and I’ll be the first to say that families are what we make them. We don’t need prescribed masculine and feminine roles to make good parents, we just need love discipline and commitment. But that does not make fatherhood an out of date word.
Hey that’s pretty cool sonofwalt. Despite the vitriolic spew on talk radio, I think the majority of straight people in this country recognize that gay men and women can and do make fantastic parents.
Thanks! I enjoy your blog and I appreciate you comment here. I don’t see gay dads or moms as any better or any worse than straight parents. We are just humans like anyone else, but we have had our unique challenges. It’s nice to share those with others who understand and those who want to understand.
I’ll be back to visit your blog frequently, EMC.
If trouble comes in threes you are in BIG TROUBLE!
Yeah, but it’s a fun bit of trouble to be in.
I’d say those boys sure lucked out. If every parent embraced the joy and challenges of the “job” as you seem to, just think where we could be! Thanks for being a present, loving dad.
Wow, you really know how to choke a guy up, don’t you?
Thank you. That’s the kind of compliment that means the most to me. Thanks for dropping by and making me smile.