If you look beyond the crass-commercialism associated with Father’s Day, the lead up to this Sunday provides a great opportunity to shine the light on Dad of today, and to work on breaking down some pre-conceived stereotypes.
The role that Dads play today is so vastly different from the role my father played and virtually unrecognisable from the role my grandfathers would have played before that.
Fathers of today are just as likely to be diaper-changers as bread-winners. While plenty of so-called Alpha-males still exist, there are more and more examples of Dads who have made choices relating to their children that are completely non-traditional when weighed against comparisons of the past.
Our society today has created more stay-at-home Dads and even single Dads than there have been in previous generations, and these Dads became the focus of a music video created by Toronto, Ontario based musician Andrew Austin.
The song is called “To Love Like This Again”, and the video content was created through crowd-sourcing. Andrew asked for stay-at-home Dads or single Dads to submit video footage of them with their children and the composite result of the submissions became the visual content for the song.
Have a look…it’s pretty cool:
While I’m not one for promoting various crass gift ideas relating to Father’s Day…I’m more than happy to share positive attempts to reflect the many new realities that fatherhood represents today. For me personally, one of the best things about fatherhood is simply just being a dad.
If you agree, and think that it’s time for a better definition of a modern Dad, then feel free to share this with others.
This is awesome!! I love that it’s crowd-sourced – so brilliant.
Absolutely! It really brings the authenticity level up a few notches! Thanks for your comment.