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http://www.commondreams.org/further/2012/08/28-4Coolest Father of the Year Award goes to Nils Pickert, the German dad of a five-year-old son who happens to like to wear skirts and dresses. To protect him from the mockery he knew his son would face after they moved to a small town - "very traditional, very religious. Plainly motherland." - Nils made himself a role model by donning a skirt himself, "to broaden my shoulders for my little buddy."
"You cant expect a child at pre-school age to have the same ability to assert themselves as an adult. Completely without role model. And so I became that role model."
awesome!
longship
(40,416 posts)R&K
Lucy Goosey
(2,940 posts)I love this story - I just want to give both of them a big hug.
http://gawker.com/5938676/father-of-the-year-helps-dress+wearing-son-feel-comfortable-by-putting-on-a-skirt-himself?post=52253057#13464438336642&
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is parenting at its finest.
loli phabay
(5,580 posts)closeupready
(29,503 posts)It's okay if you are - just explain your feelings.
If you are GLBT, like I am, you know how painful growing up gay can be. That's why his support is like, 'wow'.
loli phabay
(5,580 posts)Im kinda torn between good idea bad idea depending on my thought process at the time.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)really cool with regard to GLBT issues, which is not what one would maybe expect from the land formerly home to the Third Reich, but I guess if the US is able to get beyond that fact that we are a country where our president is a member of a class of people of which it was once true that members of that class were officially counted as 2/3's of a member of the larger society, then Germany or any other state can also progress.
Cheers.
loli phabay
(5,580 posts)AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)Parents that not only protect us but support us for who we are. I hope the newer generations will be more like this!
Victor_c3
(3,557 posts)I have two daughters (they'll be 2 and 4 years old this fall). I don't know when alternative gender and sexual orientations really start to show up or when a person "knows", but my kids will always have my unconditional support and love.
Awesome dad. That sends a hell of a message of support to a kid who, unfortunately, will probably need all he can get.
I'm turning into an emotional softie, but this sort of thing brings tears to my eyes.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)I fell in love with this Nils guy for his totally awesome role as father to his young boy. Really. K&R