We dads got 99 problems and most of them center around being treated as 2nd class parents by moms at the park, cashiers, and mother-in-laws. Here are just some of things that the dads of our Facebook community cannot stand.
As a dad, what's one thing you can't stand?
Posted by Life of Dad on Thursday, February 2, 2017
Jimmy O’Brian: Whining. Non-stop whining drives me nuts! Also people with no kids or one less than 1 year old telling me how to parent.
Peter Som: Mostly other parents who are objectively careless and lazy. I’m looking at you parent who take your kid to the park so you can devote all your attention to your apparently more worthwhile phone baby.
A.j. Gandenberger: The fact that I can’t take my daughter to the bathroom without the awkwardness of people staring at me taking her in the men’s room.
Mark Hudson Jr.: People saying I am babysitting my kids when my wife is gone. I don’t babysit. I take care of my kids. I enjoy it. And I sure don’t get paid to do it.
Hugo Naessens: My children have homes of their own now, but I used to hate it when people came and offered me a job, just because they saw me hang up the laundry.
Clay Price: Leaving my baby at a daycare with one set of adults and then picking her up with another set of adults I don’t know. When I ask questions, to see how my daughter did, no one knows. It gets very aggravating at times.
Christopher Lord: Shitty parents [who are] raising the next generation of equally shitty parents. The ones who don’t teach respect, manners and good character. Really grinds my gears.
John Robert Fisher: I can’t stand when people judge my family by the size of it. 6 kids and people think that my world is stressed and crazy. The fact of the matter is I cant imagine what it would be like with just 1, 2 or even 3 kids. I never have a dull moment, like the LEGO movie “everything is awesome!”
Scott Swiecki: Knowing that my 9-year-old daughter dislikes her mom’s new husband, and feels that he picks on her, and that I cannot be there to make her feel better when she’s at their house.
Doug Machado: People who don’t watch their language around children or feel that the necessity to smoke trumps the importance of children not being around second hand smoke.
Derrick Carroll: When people give me praise for doing the exact same thing a mom does. It’s belittling, like saying despite me being a male I still find a way to raise my child.
Jim Tomas: When some mom is ignoring her kid who is having a major melt down at a store or restaurant.
Cody PT Morris: Cashiers complimenting me on the fact that the clothing I picked out for my kids are cute and matching in a tone of condescension and borderline amazement.
What’s something that you can’t stand? Tell us on Facebook.
*Flickr photo by Claudia Heidelberger, used under Creative Commons license.