Wow, lot of shitting on this guy… You know it just works for some families. Doesn’t make dad a deadbeat if he’s doing other stuff.
No offense taken, as a dad.
My wife LOVES shopping for the kids and finding deals. I love helping the kids figure out what they want, and translating it to my wife.
It’s a partnership.
Dad worked. One day in the lean years he was on the books for 5 employers at the same time: no overlapping shifts, just a hairy schedule on a paper calendar and more than one job-to-job commute.
We do not castigate dad for devoting his entire life to the household.
Mom, who merely had one full-timer, did the shopping and wrapping on the side. The two of them set up a wonderful Christmas day together with very few gifts and resources, and we were all together on Christmas morn before Dad went to work.
It worked. We didn’t lack for joy.
I mean, Dad was watching the kids while Mom did the shopping? sounds like a functional and healthy family to me.
Are dads still like that? The young dads I know are pretty involved in their children’s lives
My wife went out Christmas shopping while I took my toddler to go play in the snow.
Separating responsibilities is functional, I don’t understand the negatives here.
I think its more referencing the dads who are entirely uninvolved untrained the their kids lives whatsoever to the point they don’t even participate in any Christmas planning or prep for the family.
Not your specific situation.
All dads I know including myself are the opposite. They do all the shopping and wrapping.
My wife did basically all the shopping and wrapping.
But i drove across the state christmas eve to pick up the kitten and hid it for hours. And built all the things that needed to be assembled. I was up til about one while she was in bed by 9. Then the stuff that wasnt from santa was built today.
Each parent doesnt need to be involved in everything to still be involved.
Yep, dad here, can confirm and get tired of these tired old jokes. Such a boomer joke
I wrapped for two different families, including mine, this year. My wife works super hard, and this is something I can do to help.
My wife did all the shopping but I drove to 4 different pet stores across the county hunting for guinea pigs on Xmas eve, got two, hid them at my office in their little temp set up, then went back at midnight and brought them home.
Wife’s idea but damn did I make that shit happen lol.
She’s the best tho, I got her a knock off roomba to try to make her life easier. Hope it works well. Kids are stoked on the piggies.
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In my defense, while my wife shopped and wrapped I was on toddler wrangling duty XD
