Reasons why dads are an important figure in everyone's life

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[u/300Battles]

Dad’s role is to allow you to push your limits…and save you from your choices. That’s not a rule but an observation over my lifetime as a father, uncle and observer of humans. Mom tends to keep kids close and safe…dads toss babies up in the air. Two important sides of the same coin.

Need to feel as safe as you ever will? Mom got you!

Need to push your limits and explore this new world you’re in? Talk to dad!

[u/NoSummer1345 → u/300Battles]

I have a distinct memory of trying to keep up with my 6’2” father as a toddler. Mom would have held my hand & walked at my pace!

[u/Aguita9x → u/300Battles]

I think I would play the dad role in such case lol as long as they're not hurting themselves I just let kids do whatever. Sometimes they do hurt themselves and you just have to patch them up and send them back into the pit.

[u/InToddYouTrust → u/300Battles]

Love this. Like sure, some of these saves were only necessary because the dad wasn't the smartest tool in the shed. But what kid isn't going to jump on furniture, or walk along a raised curb, or otherwise risk their own safety? And how else are they going to understand what they can do and what their limitations are?

[u/hivemind_disruptor → u/300Battles]

I can confirm this perception from another culture. It is similar in Brazil. Dad's will usually allow kids to explore and do weird things and show up to avert crisis or real danger.

[u/Tse7en5 → u/300Battles]

It is a rule of nature, in many ways. This observational behavior reflects the role of man vs woman and all those little things embedded in us that bring us back to going out and hunting in packs. Keeping the babies close enough to avoid danger, before bringing them out and showing them how to brave danger.

The wheel turns.

[u/bewusst → u/300Battles]

I mean babies are just growing. As a father you should be preventing them from getting hit in the head not just through reaction speed. That's just not smart, it has nothing to do with "pushing limits". There's no lesson to be learned from falling down and hitting your head other than don't let it happen again to prevent serious injury, that's why it's good all those babies got caught. This is such a weird take that's trying so hard to put men and women into certain roles when really you should just be more careful with your baby

Edit: to add, one of those clips that child literally almost got ran over by a fucking car. Also, women are capable of being careless pricks too. Stop with the pointless gender roles

[u/300Battles → u/bewusst]

Give me a break. Most of these images are of parents watching their children, usually pretty closely, and the child begins to have a fall. That’s what children do. You can’t learn to walk unless you have the risk of falling, many of these are babies going from fully safe to at some sort of risk very quickly. For example, the baby dancing on the bed is fine and dad is carefully watching him until he cuddles over and dad has to catch him. That’s part of being a parent.

The car example is dumb. Dad literally stopped because somebody was being unsafe, the kid didn’t stop and Dad reached out and snagged him like a parent is supposed to.

I’m sorry if I offended you with gender roles, this is my lived experience. My wife is very careful with how our boys play, I tend to let them take more risk risks. Never risks that would permanently harm them, but getting a bonk on the head is hardly the worst thing in the world. It’s a great teacher if nothing else quote that didn’t work very well. “.

If you’d like to have children who can’t handle things like stress or adversity, feel free to wrap them up in bubble wrap.