I assure you that the first few days, when I was a father, I felt very clumsy and didn't know how to do things very well. Far from discouraging me, I told myself, from humor, that it was the consequence of years and years of education away from toy dolls and babies; those who never left us boys because they were "girls' things".
But taking care of your child is not women's things, but both, so I did not give up and, with more or less effort, I learned together with her, and together with my son, how to take care of it, how to dress it, how to bathe it, dry it, put cream on it, comb it, roll it, sleep it…
And what happens when a man is not used to it, when he does not participate enough in caring for his baby? Well, the demonstration that there are still men who don't know: his wife shared the mistake by dressing her for daycare, and the photo has gone viral.
That morning he had to take her to the nursery
Every morning her mother dressed her and took her to the nursery, but that morning she couldn't do it and it was her husband's turn, Jeremy, take care of removing her pajamas, dressing her and taking her to daycare.
She, named Brooke Hawley-Basso, thought that everything had gone well (what could happen? It was not so difficult) until when she arrived to pick up the girl at the nursery she saw her dressed as you see her in the photo.
He captured the moment with his cell phone, sent it to him and asked: "Have you taken Olivia to the nursery without a shirt?" It was obvious that yes, but hey, everything had a perfectly logical explanation.
However, her husband replied that "he had left her with that thing on," as if to say he hears, a shirt not, but that strange pants already covered.
"Peto," she told him as correcting him (it's not a thing, it's a bib). And then he added that he was supposed to go under a shirt or something so that the girl was not half-naked.
"I have to claim ignorance in this," he replied by way of sympathetic apology.
And she thought it would be fun to share it and sent it to the Ellen DeGeneres Facebook page, where she had more than 67,000 reactions, more than 11,000 comments and from where it has been shared more than 33,000 times, which is said soon, and that shows that many women should have felt recognized for having lived something similar.
We don't know, we don't want to learn or you don't let us learn?
And here I leave you with a question that I find very interesting. In Bored Panda they say that this mom has learned a valuable lesson: never again let her husband dress the baby again.
However, I think quite the opposite. This mother learned that what she has to do is let dad see her everyday. Because there are parents who do not know, but can learn. There are parents who do not seem to want to learn and do not strive, who must be given a push ("they are also their children"), and there are parents who their partners don't let them do things Because they don't do them well.
But then they will never do them well! What happens next, what they are saying there that they can not more, that they are fed up, that nobody helps them, and when they try again, as they do not know, they still receive a "go, remove from the middle, and what I do that I go faster. "
And so, without delegating, it is clear that men will never learn and that their women will continue to alternate moments of good humor with others of bad humor, the result of being totally surpassed.
Let us do it, really. And if it does not come out: patience, love, and less judge ... that the closest thing to a baby with what we play as children was a ball. But that doesn't make us useless, so a little trust and a baby can work wonders.
