[lit-ideas] Re: failure
- From: Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:03:35 -0500
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Mike Geary
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:42 PM, <dsavory@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> John Wager opineth
>
> One reason fathers may more like "failures" at home than they do at work
> may have to do with their openness to being taught.
>
>
> This is so true it hurts me.
>
> I was laughing with a new father friend of mine about the whole birthing
> process
> and what the father's role in it is supposed to be. Some people say we'll
> be coaching
> our labouring wives which is pretty rich considering labour is a game we've
> never played
> or even seen. Other people say we don't have to DO anything- we just have
> to "be there
> emotionally" which is another way of saying "don't act like you normally
> would, act like
> your wife's best friend, the one you actually don't like very much although
> she's kinda hot".
>
> Maybe in a generation or two after 30 or 40 years of a culture expecting
> engagement and
> attachment from fathers, parenting won't seem so foreign to men and they'll
> feel and actually
> be better at it. My kids will be changing my diaper by then!
>
> David Savory
>
>
>
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