Because their parent can't be there or their child is there, because the parent is simply not in their lives. So I think that what the mom did was a good thing. She was just trying to make her son feel included. She did not want her son to feel left out or to feel like he was missing out. But should these types of events just be banned altogether? Maybe it's time to move on from that
Andrea Piggue
@Andrea_Speaks · 5:00
It's just Mommy can't be there for this because I have to work, and I have to work because we need money so that we can do the things that we do, and we can have a home and we can have a car and all that kind of stuff. And I just explained it to them, and they said that they were okay. Did they feel some type of way?
Andrea Piggue
@Andrea_Speaks · 3:14
I think they're a good thing, and I think they should have more stuff like that. And then maybe if they have more things like that, maybe it will encourage other parents who are not as active maybe to encourage them to be active. We have to stop looking at stuff as a negative and try to change it as a positive
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 4:53
But at the same time, I want to sit down and have a conversation with my child so that they would understand that this was not to exclude them. I don't want them to feel rejected or abandoned in a situation like that. But I also understand that fatherlessness and the pain of not having a parent in your life is real
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 2:28
And unless men step up everywhere and decide, okay, well, let me take this child under my wing, or whatever, then the child is going to feel left out, and they're going to be too young to really understand what that means. I think that the mom did a nice thing for her son by dressing up and being his dad, or trying to be his dad in the absence of his dad
Moe Johnson
@NeophyteSavant · 4:34
He came back to visit from time to time, but he ended up never really coming back to live in New York. I had another brother who lived with us, another older brother. I never really had any uncles or anyone else to be a father figure. Whenever it was someone to be a father figure, this dude was a jerk, so and if there was anything in terms of for mother, my mother wasn't coming to school for nothing. So my generation was different
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 3:09
If you are an aunt that's raising a child or an uncle raising a child, you don't feel left out because you're not the mom, quote unquote mom or the quote unquote dad, but you are parenting a child. And so, yeah, I can see where that would be a good compromise, but, yeah, it is a touchy subject, unfortunately for a lot of people. And I never saw these things happening frequently when I was growing up