Inside Fatherhood

A Man Among Mommies

by steve on February 21st, 2007

Being a Stay at Home Dad has its ups and downs as we all know. We face isolation, gender role stereotype attacks by others and the whole nine. I like to share how others feel about being a Stay at Home Dad as it helps let others know the realities of what is happening.

Over at Dad Center, Todd Krater who authors the A Man Among Mommies blog, writes an article about how it feels to be a stay at home father. It is worth a read.

What I did not realize was that I apparently had some terrible disfigurement that scared the local moms away. If I did not make it a point to go to the park when others did, my son would have never seen another child outside of his brother. After a few months it became clear that many of the moms were ignoring me, and the dads thought I was lazy. Even though I actually work from home, I would get comments like Mr. Mom , Work from home? Yeah, OK. and so on.

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