Published: May 05, 2019
Dads get openly applauded so much more than mums. Could that be something to do with toothpaste?
The writer Niamh Mulvey once said that becoming a mother was ‘like learning misogyny – something with which you thought you were familiar – in a whole new language’. I think about that quote a lot, especially when I receive random compliments in public.
As a man who writes about parenting, I’m wary of giving the impression that my views on this or that aspect of the task are more exciting and marvellous because I’m a man. On the contrary, they’re better because of that notepad I found at the bus station, filled with humorous ways of saying ‘this thing is like that other thing’.
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