I was at a party recently where one of my fellow guests was a man in his 40s with two children, a boy of 5 and a girl of 3. The little girl snatched some pizza from a plate that was circulating and her father said to her, “Don’t do that, it’s rude.” Then he turned to me and said conversationally, “I always think, before giving out to her, would I say the same thing to her brother? I don’t want to stop her being herself or put more restraints in her way than I would in his.”
This from a man with 5 brothers and no sisters who went to a conservative all boys school. Rejoice.
disgruntled says
2 August, 2014 at 19:18rejoice indeed.
Praxis says
3 August, 2014 at 12:05I just hope the person serving the pizza wasn’t too put out while he deliberated.
belgianwaffle says
3 September, 2014 at 16:27Herself was serving pizza and is never put out by other grown ups. Just us.
It’s something but I was cast down again by the recent headline announcing that a “mother of three” might run the BBC.