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Smart Girl Dad
Raising children is the most difficult and often most thankless job in the world. There are no days off. There are no vacations. There’s constant emotional upheaval. Oh, and there’s no pay.
Raising a girl child is all that and more.
Raising a temperamental, too smart for her own good girl child with a mouth that was even smarter than her mind, well, I can barely imagine how challenging that is!
And raising a temperamental, too smart for her own good girl child with a smart mouth when the generation gap between you is so large that the world you’re raising that baby in is a place you don’t even recognize? What about that?
THAT, I can imagine. That’s what my dad signed up for, albeit unwittingly at first.
When he ran to his brother’s aid that hot August day, he had no plans to bring a baby home. He just went to do what big brothers do, lend whatever support he could to a young man in a tough spot.
At 26, his baby brother had lost the woman he loved unexpectedly and found himself a single father of 3 children including a 3-week-old infant. He had no job and no real aim to get one. Until that day, he had been a young man, playing house and playing grown-up.
