Free bacon butties for the dads - wtf!!

[PlumPudd]

Someone posted this to a community WhatsApp group near me. What the hell?!? I thought it was a joke but apparently it’s a national initiative and happens in playgroups and churches all over the country!!

Free bacon butties for dads to incentivise aka bribe them into spending some of the weekend playing with their own kids!

Firstly, why should they be rewarded / bribed with bacon butties. It’s basic 101 parenting - looking after your own child who you helped to create at the weekend - nobody is giving mums anything to get them to spend the rest of the weekend with the kids.

Secondly, bacon butties for blokes?!?!? What sexist nonsense is this, is bacon too manly for women to handle? Is it the Yorkie bar of sandwich fillings. I bet if they were going to bribe / incentivise mums they wouldn’t give them bacon, they’d give them fondant fancies or face masks or something.

Lighthearted rant over… I know it’s good to encourage equal parenting etc but talk about setting a low bar

What about non binary vegans?

Womens institute?

Loving how a thread about a benign dad's playgroup offering bacon barms has thrown up a comment about the masons and paramilitary gangs and "men organising" 🤣🤣

a message to any newcomers on mn - honestly we're not all really odd, In 15 years on mn this is one of the most glorious and equally insane threads I've ever read.

i missed the bit about freemasons ? anything intriguing ?

Doesn't mean anything to me but I'm veggie.

Not offended by it though, if it means dad's attend these things more often then why not?

Unfortunately it'd take a lot more than a free bacon sarnie for DDs dad to attend a church childrens group 😐

I need to delete this from my you're on list etc, every time I see it I want a bloomer bread bacon sandwich 😛

Indeed. It's accepted-but-annoying that powerful, rich men have their clubs for running the country/world...but when men from the underclass start gathering in groups for breakfast while their kids play...goddammit, that's just too damn far.

I need to delete this from my you're on list etc, every time I see it I want a bloomer bread bacon sandwich
I had one this morning at a play cafe with other mums.

Unfortunately it'd take a lot more than a free bacon sarnie for DDs dad to attend a church childrens group 😐
I think that's probably true for a lot of dads.
We did SPL and my DH often felt quite awkward in baby groups and play groups because whilst they weren't specified as mums only, he was often the only man there. Not many men take SPL, let alone use their SPL to take little ones to groups. It also didn't help that a lot of baby chat also went hand in hand with birth chat and understandably a lot of women don't want to discuss things like that with someone who is a random man.

When DC were older we found a play group that has more dads and granddad's attending so whilst Mums are the bigger group, he'll happily attend that with DC. The overall vibe is different. I'll happily sit and talk to my friend's husband's if they're working one week and when DH goes my friends talk with him. It doesn't feel like a mums club.

I can see why separate dad groups might be a good idea.