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You Know Your A Father When....
14 years ago
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1) You eagerly help your daughter get ready for her gymnastics meet including asking her and I quote: "Honey what color sparkly stuff goes in your hair this time?"
2) You are the one, not your wife (who is admittedly keeping an eye on everyone else) that is doing your daughter's hair for said meet.
3) You realize you can now be classified as a 'Sports Dad' and your car even has those stickers on it with your children's sports and their names
4) Said car is no longer the classic Mustang you restored with your father, but a Volvo station wagon
5) You have no real interest in seeing blockbuster super-hero or giant robot movies, but a movie with an annoying country pickup-truck? You find yourself excited about going to that.
6) You have ever *WILLINGLY* worn makeup to get a laugh out of one of your children
7) You have absolutely *NO* problems with being 'that guy' you know, the one that is toting around all sorts of extra stuff be it your daughter's gym-bag, your wife's purse or a comfort stuff animal poking out of your own backpack.
This is just a really abbreviate list when I sat down for a few moments of spare time at my daughter's gymnastics meet this weekend, and seeing some fathers that were actually embarrassed to be seen at a sporting event or toting around obviously feminine things. Now, I will say this out of all the other men I saw there, I would say the vast majority of them were very supported of their daughters (the boy's competition was held in a different gym) but at the same time a large group of them seemed to be embarrassed to admit that around other men and I got some really weird looks when I put the makeup on to try to calm my daughter down a bit between rotations.
Sometimes I think society at least here in the United States emphasize men being a bit too manly, that we should cry or be seen being 'soft.' *shrugs* I think its a bad thing for the family, any family.
2) You are the one, not your wife (who is admittedly keeping an eye on everyone else) that is doing your daughter's hair for said meet.
3) You realize you can now be classified as a 'Sports Dad' and your car even has those stickers on it with your children's sports and their names
4) Said car is no longer the classic Mustang you restored with your father, but a Volvo station wagon
5) You have no real interest in seeing blockbuster super-hero or giant robot movies, but a movie with an annoying country pickup-truck? You find yourself excited about going to that.
6) You have ever *WILLINGLY* worn makeup to get a laugh out of one of your children
7) You have absolutely *NO* problems with being 'that guy' you know, the one that is toting around all sorts of extra stuff be it your daughter's gym-bag, your wife's purse or a comfort stuff animal poking out of your own backpack.
This is just a really abbreviate list when I sat down for a few moments of spare time at my daughter's gymnastics meet this weekend, and seeing some fathers that were actually embarrassed to be seen at a sporting event or toting around obviously feminine things. Now, I will say this out of all the other men I saw there, I would say the vast majority of them were very supported of their daughters (the boy's competition was held in a different gym) but at the same time a large group of them seemed to be embarrassed to admit that around other men and I got some really weird looks when I put the makeup on to try to calm my daughter down a bit between rotations.
Sometimes I think society at least here in the United States emphasize men being a bit too manly, that we should cry or be seen being 'soft.' *shrugs* I think its a bad thing for the family, any family.
Congratulations on maintaining the gene pool.