Monday, September 17, 2007

Men and diapers?

Okay, so here's a commercial now playing... "Uh oh! Dad's changing the diaper!"

So, from 1994 to 1996 I changed more of my daughter's diapers than my wife...you can ask her. I figured it was one of my duties...I'm a man, more than up to the task. Really, I'm a parent first, more than up to the task for my part.

If you're a man, and a father, and you think diaper-changing is for someone else...anyone but you...then you are a chicken or, worse, a coward. If you are a man, an adult man responsible for siring a child, then this is your task, too. You share in the work and responsibility.

No excuses, especially "I work all day and pay the bills". So what? This is something that means something more...something core...something central. It's you caring for your child at the most basic level, doing what needs to be done that simply must be done. This is you, being a man, being a father, and doing it well.

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