What Does A Dad Really Do? This Dad Tries To Answer That Question!

“You cannot really mean that! How can you even say that with a straight face?”, said one work colleague to me. I didn’t know how to respond. I had to be careful because this was a colleague in a position of seniority and I didn’t want to offend her or say something that would sour or working relationship, yet, I had to make my point. We were discussing parenting; I was telling her about Kian, our experiences with him over the past year and then I seemed to hit a raw nerve when I mentioned the key role dads played in bringing up children.

She wasn’t having any of it. Her point of view was that moms bore the brunt of parenting what with carrying the child in their wombs for nine months, enduring the pains of labour and then also having to sacrifice their careers, jobs and opportunities in the name of raising children.