What’s on your minds today, readers? Keeping the kids amused during the summer? The weather? Back-to-school preparation? (Please, not yet.) President Obama’s cupcakes?
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School starts on Wednesday, August 12, for my kids in Kansas. Since I teach, I’m officially back to work tomorrow, although I’ve already been doing lots of work. We do get out of school earlier than most. May 20 will be our last day.
Wow. That is early. We don’t start until Sept. 9 here in Mass. (Which is good, because we had an exceptionally cold, rainy June. Summer got a late start.)
I have a friend who is struggling with what to tell her 3 year old about not having a dad. She is raising her 3 year old and 1 year old on her own after a bad breakup. Her 3 year old daughter (my god daughter) is coming home from day care talking about dads. What advice is there out there about how to handle this subject?
That’s a great question. My own approach, for a three-year-old, is simply to explain that families come in all different shapes. I’d emphasize that she has a parent who loves her, rather than that she is “missing” something that other kids have. Todd Parr’s The Family Book is a good one for that age, and shows families of many different configurations. She might also flip through Louise Sloan’s Knock Yourself Up for herself–it’s aimed at single moms by choice, so she can skip the knocking up part, and go right to the chapter on “The Daddy Question,” which may address some of her questions. I’m going to bump this comment up to a full post, so other readers can chime in as well.
Thanks! New to this forum. Just to clear things up- she is a lesbian mom that used a donor for both kids. Wasn’t sure I made that clear.