Father’s *

We made a whole lot of noise about mother’s day… but does it mean that Dads do not matter? Well, it is Dads’ month so let us talk about this fragile person. Well yes, science has proved that men are pretty much sensitive and emotional and the reason some of you will cast a NO! At me is simply coz it is another fact that they are good at hiding the two.

A father is someone who believes that by donating his sperm for your creation, he has done his duty in life. A dad is someone who gets up every day and does whatever he can to put a roof over your head, clothes on your back and food on your table. He might have to dig ditches, flip hamburgers, deliver pizzas, and work in a factory— or all of the above. He might not own a suit and tie. He teaches the value of hard work not because he’s looking for help mowing the lawn, but because he knows idleness leads to trouble. He realizes his job is to make his children productive citizens, and to do that, he can’t always be his child’s friend - Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar

It is hard being a single Dad compared to being a single mom, why would you say this Francis Wairimu?, it is simply from experience when I took care of my two brothers at their tender age and the way I saw my mother doing it easily without looking a tiny bit hard… women have the capability of handling like ten things at a go and fully accomplish them at the given precision, while men, OMG!, they will do only three but one will be a total mess, the other half backed and last one perfect with room for discussion.

That is why men marry to replace their gone spouses and get help with the kids and provide the best way they know for their family. So do not blame us that is how we function. But that does not mean it is cute exaggerating mother’s day compared to father’s day. I have been raised by literally women figures in my life from my mother to aunts to my lovely grandma but it is thanks to them having the best dad that they learnt how to fight and be proud of themselves. In them days and era, a man who sired daughters only with no son was looked down at but he reminded them that there was never a day he regretted or missed that he had a son because he got five awesome girls and wish he was around because those girls turned out to be the best women the world could not do without.

For the few men we can call men, there is a man somewhere who taught them to be the best they are now, positively or negatively (although behind every great man there is a woman) but let us appreciate the few that take care of their family, the ones that life forced fatherhood roles on them especially in cases of single moms where the son resumes the duties of being the provider to that family, the guy who had to drop out of school so that his sister or brother could continue their studies, the men who have gone out of their way to adopt a kid and not because they cannot sire (also the best one for still being a dad to someone) but because they are willing to provide a better life for another human being, upright spiritual dads who teach what is right and condemn the wrong in the most loving way possible with good will at heart, men activist who fight for the respect of the female species, dad who sacrifice their family time to fight for the peace, sanity and freedom of this country and last but not least single women who had to be and still have to be a dad and mom to their sons and daughters. Happy father’s month and day in advance to the 18th of June 2017. “Anyone can be a father but it takes someone special to be a daddy.”

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