This Young Dad Is Wondering If He Went Wrong Encouraging His Daughter To Be A Housewife
A 24-year-old dad was really young when he had his daughter; 19 to be exact. Sadly, his daughter’s mom doesn’t want anything to do with her and her life, so it’s just him and his daughter by themselves.
Right now, his daughter loves to pretend to be an adult who has a real job. She is very curious and interested in many different jobs.
When she meets someone, she always wants to know what they do for work, and then she will pretend to have that job. She also sees people with different jobs on TV that she gets excited about.
“In the last few months, she wanted to be a teacher, babysitter, truck driver, president, garbage collector, photographer, “knee doctor” (after I injured it), scientist, witch, football steward,” he explained.
He really is supportive of his daughter being thrilled about pretending to have different jobs, and he will go out and get her tools or accessories to help support her interest and play.
When his daughter was interested in being a football steward, he bought her a tiny vest and handmade her a badge to put on it.
One weekend ago, one of his friends came to visit him and his daughter, and of course, his daughter just had to know what his friend did for a living.
His friend is a housewife, and his daughter was very invested in knowing all about her life and job, so she asked tons of questions.
When his friend went home, his daughter spent the next few days excitedly pretending to be a housewife with 3 children that have food allergies and need her help with completing their homework.
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She clearly has a vivid imagination and this dad doesn’t want to squash it. Yesterday, he took his daughter grocery shopping and they ran into a couple of their neighbors.
His neighbors were chatting with his daughter, who was pretending that she had gone grocery shopping so she could make her husband and her kids dinner.
His neighbors looked at him strangely and went on their way. Well, a couple of hours after running into his neighbors, he was back at home when they knocked on his door.
His neighbors requested a “private” chat with him away from his daughter.
“After I explained what’s happening, they gave me a one-hour lecture about how…ignorant I was and I should stop encouraging this because I was damaging my daughter,” he said.
“They told me we aren’t in the 60s anymore and young girls shouldn’t dream about being housewives anymore and demanded I stop brainwashing my daughter because her subconscious will start settling for being a housewife instead of dreaming about bigger things.”
That conversation with his neighbors has left him unable to sleep at night because he’s worried that they are right. He’s so upset that “encouraging” his daughter to “be a housewife” it’s actually a very bad thing and not something that a good dad does.
“Every day has been a struggle and most of the time I don’t even know if what I am doing is right so the thought of unintentionally hurting my daughter is filling me with guilt,” he concluded.
Do you think he did anything wrong by letting his daughter know that being a housewife is perfectly alright?
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