Stay-at-home dad

the Navy, and I was often one of the last few kids to go home. My second clue should have been when I saw my dad’s dusty, dented black Dodge sitting in front of the main office, steam swirling around the engine in the January chill as I waited for him to sign me out for the day. Such responsibilities as picking up the kids from school, making sure we had clothes laid out for the next…

What is it like to be a stay at home dad? Most men would not know because only 14% of fathers stay home with their children after birth.(Los Angeles times, 2014, p.2). That should be more, because fathers sharing maternity leave, and getting paid for it is important for the child and the family in general. Although, that is not always the case. Unfortunately, Society has given the image that fathers are the ones that go and make the money, and mothers are the ones who stay home and tend to all…

to cry well…? “in the story fly away home.the author Eve Bunting fly away home andrew is tells use that andrew is tough because he is strong and also kind. He is a strong person because he holds his tears when people meet their family and say “hi mom i haven’t seen you in a while mom i loved to be home”. That is why andrew is strong. Also he is strong because he lives in the airport and he doesn't cry. he always stay postev to. For this reason he satay observed when he thinks and say we…

mom came down with another mom. It’s not that i didn’t like the other volleyball player, I always felt like she judged me a little because we are both different. The only thing there was was an awkward silence on the way home. I had to leave early because my mom wanted to go home. At this point I was a little mad at my…

When I was born on July 21, 1998 my mom had me at Mt.Sinai hospital at 4:10 p.m. The hospital doesn’t exist anymore. My mom was accompanied by my dad and grandma. The rest of my family was out in the waiting area. My father named me after my mom which is Kay. I never really cried a lot. When I was a couple months old I use to go to church with my dad on Sunday. When I was two years old I went to a daycare called Childhood Develop Enrichment Center. The daycare was really fun, even though I was…

ambulance rushed my dad to the hospital, where it was determined that he had suffered from a stroke and was lucky to be alive. The stroke effected the right side of his brain causing weakness in his left arm, the inability to move his left leg and slurred speech. At 20 years old, I received the most terrifying call of my life, my brother called and said, “Something bad happened, dad had a stroke.” my heart sank. I did not know much about strokes or what causes them or if my dad was going to be…

many questions for my sister, questions that I had never asked her. For example, why? Why did you stay with him, even when he was just an asshole to you? And all he did was blame you for being pregnant? With tears in her eye she told me “I just thought it might have worked if we lived together, I also didn’t want to disappoint mom and dad more than what I had already. But I’m so stupid you know, mom and dad are great people, if I had just told them the truth, about what my relationship they…

February 16, 2010. My mom was driving Cole, Jada, and I home from school in a cruddy snowstorm. While my dad was at home with Bobby. He called and explained that the roads were too horrendous, so we had to stay at a motel in Eagle Butte. My grandpa was driving home from Pierre, and my dad could not get a hold of him, therefore, my grandpa did not know the roads were horrendous. Right as we were getting settled into the motel, my dad was at home and saw some lights on our road. He figured my…

financially as well. My childhood can be argued as the opposite of the stereotypical American family dynamic. I grew up with my father always home and working around the house, while my mother went to work upwards of 50 hours a week. Due to this opposite family dynamic with a stay at home Dad, I grew very close to my father.…

Toms father is absent most of his life. Tom has to adjust to the life without a father which can be quite hard. Tom was forced to take the role as a father. He grew up without being able to have a dad to talk too about how manhood worked or someone to talk too about boy problems. Tom didn’t have a man in his life to love him. He was raised to keep all of his problems bottled up and didn’t know how to share love or to love someone without being mean. Tom grew up without a man to help him…