re: Are modern fathers spending too much time with their kids?

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Being a father is the most manly thing I have ever done with my life.

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people say this. But it just isn’t true. The most manly thing, by definition, can’t be performing maternal duties.

Hard to be changing diapers when you are getting in to a ship headed out across an ocean you don’t know to a land you aren’t sure is there to discover new worlds.

Not knocking it, I did it w three kids, but come on man

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I’ve never seen a man holding his kid like in your initial post

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but apparently being secure and not giving a shite is no longer "manly"

weird times indeed

This is a clear case of the downward spiral boomers sent us on. Very tragic. Thank God the millennials are bringing back class and redefining the modern man. A man that can provide, nurture, and lead a family. Millennials are the American heroes today.

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but apparently being secure and not giving a shite is no longer "manly"

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I don’t personally think it’s not manly I just never see it. But on here people see it once or see a meme and think that’s most people. Kinda like people saying kids never play outside anymore when all I ever see is kids outside playing, everywhere I go. Just b/c it’s a common talking point on social media doesn’t make it fact

Liked your use of the gif btw

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Inflation. The lessening of the value of a man’s labor relative to the cost of living. The banks, the government that backed them, fiat currency and the snowballing debt burying people.

Paying unskilled people more doesn’t help anything if the cost of goods rise

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Women entering the workplace was the biggest factor .

I'm sorry your dad didn't love you. Hopefully if you have a kid you can break the cycle and show your kids some love.

Spending time with your kids is awesome. I don’t treat them like my wife does. We get after it. Dirt piles, making a fire, throwing rocks, climbing trees, and trying to get them to do things independently with a little assistance. That’s the role of a father. Mothers are for coddling and emotions. Fathers are for confidence and toughness. There’s times where they overlap, but that’s going to happen.

I wonder what those numbers look like for all parents, mother and father. I’d be willing to bet that all of those numbers are up significantly.

I think debating that would be interesting: is parents spending more time with their children overall necessarily a good thing?

My parents used to call them helicopter parents because they were always hovering around their kids, but now cal them lawn mower parents as they look to mow down every obstacle in their child’s way

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people say this. But it just isn’t true. The most manly thing, by definition, can’t be performing maternal duties.

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Being a father is the most manly thing I have ever done with my life.

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Having a working wife isn’t manly

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