Hello girls!
Mumsnet for girlies, pah, where's the fun in that?
2hot2cook, without wanting to disabuse you anyway...get a life, grow up.
Parenting is not an exclusively female preserve. Why should it be? I haven't read ALL of your posts, tbh I couldn't arsed. (Ooops is that too much of a Male thing?) My DW works her georgous little (well perhaps not so little) backside off so that I can enjoy the fun of being a dad who takes the time to ensure that his little boy has that rare opportunity of spending some time with his dad, while he is still a wee boy.
If you feel that a "man's not a man" because he's interested in his kids, well, pity and shame on you. The worst kind of girlie if you ask me.
I have on many occasions asked Mumsnet HQ why the site is called Mumsnet and not Parentsnet and the answer I've had is usually along the lines of "oh, go on, that's how we started, live with it..." And guess what, me and plenty of other saddo dads who aren't real men but want to take an interest in our kids DO.
If you don't want a forum where dads come on, seek advice, get a woman's point of view, listen to and perhaps see a different point of view and MOST IMPORTANTLY, modify their own views to take into account how their kids might feel andhow their Dw or DP might feel, well gee whizz, don't come on here. On the other hand if you want to help engender a genuine sense of parents working together and trying to understand each other, well you might be welcomed back.
I live in a part of the world where traditionally blokes aren't encouraged to REALLY take part in the lives of their kids - it's soft, it's not "manly" - well what a load of bollocks that kind of attitude is.
I'm a very active dad, not because I HAVE to, because I want to. I have a great wee boy, a smashing DW and lots of really supportive friends male and female who want to give more time to their kids and are quite envious of the way my dw and myself are able to organise our time with our wee guy. BUT, we also talk with each other, girl and boy, about how we are doing in bringing up our kids -mum and dad, dad and mum....the need for the complete answer. AND (oops my dw will really pick me up my grammatical mistakes here), most importantly, men talk to women and women talk to men - we take advice from each other -oh dear is that too healthy, too normal?
Oh well, I'll go back to watching the rugby now, all that testorone, good for a guy, even one who moisturises!