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Home › Articles › Family Life › Off to Work We Go?

Off to Work We Go?

Two Dads Sound Off

By Donna Smith

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The Stay-at-home Dad
"As I look out at my son playing in the yard, I see he sure has grown up," says Len Flinn, a stay-at-home father of two from High River, Alberta, Canada. "He's 7 now. Where has the time gone? It makes me wonder what is he going to be like when he grows up? Who are going to be his role models? And what will he think of me?"

Flinn used to hate thinking like that. "It made me feel guilty," he says. "It's like that song 'The Cat in the Cradle.' I soon began to hate the song, but now I don't. I used to feel trapped because someone has to bring in the money, and we want one of us home with the kids. Since that traditionally falls into the mom's role, I guess that left me to go out to work. I don't feel that way now."

After his second child arrived, things changed. Flinn decided to be a stay-at-home dad. "Now I look and see my 16-month-old playing and running around, then suddenly he trips over the air and falls," says Flinn. "He gets up and then runs crying, not to Mommy, but to me! I choke back the tears as I listen to him get mad at whatever imaginary thing he thinks made him fall. Then I give him a hug and send him back to play. It's times like these that I know I'm doing the right thing. I say that every day. I figure if you can't, then are you really doing the right thing?"


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