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father's Day
my son, is one year old. he has never met his father(my X husband's choice), we seperated shortly after he was concieved and I divorced him, when ds was 5 months old. Day care is doing a craft project for fathers day and wanted to know if I wanted DS to do something for another male member of the family. I told them no, go ahead and let him do something for fathers day. wondering now why I said that(my x would probably sue me for harrasment if I actually sent it to him)and if I should tell them something different now. has anyone else had this experience?
discussion title:
father's Day
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5813.2 in response to 5813.1
No. But I guess it's time to really think about how you're going to address this issue with your child and the public because this is going to come up again and again. Does your child have a man role model in his life? He's going to need it very much. Pick someone who isn't romantically involved with you, choose your dad or your brother, a cousin, a godfather...invite them into your child's life on a regular basis...this will be his masculine teacher. There are some interesting books out there on raising a man. When I split up with my xh, I was really concerned because there are a lot of women in my life, but not many men. My dad is the one who takes my son into the yard to explore yucky bugs, etc.
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father's Day
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5813.3 in response to 5813.2
well, sticky subject there, my Dad is out forthe simple reason that he is an aging alcoholic and so on and so forth. My brothers are definately up for the challange, but are currently in different cities(not mine)far enough away that they are only intermittant visitors. I will figure this bit out as it has also been a concern for me, but just thought I'd get a few opinions. thanks
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