Crowhill’s kids are a little too old for him to have to worry about this, but Pigweed has a teenager, so the boys struggle with the question, “How cool should dad be?”
Not very, they think.
Dads who try to be their kids’ friend are taking the wrong approach. Dad has a far more important role than just being a friend. In any event, here’s a somewhat rambling reflection on cool dads.
And speaking of completely uncool dads, you might want to give this a listen: The objectification of women. In which we show how incredibly uncool we really are.
The Ninja move is to form your kids’ idea of cool, and then be that.
I used to tell my daughter that there is nothing cooler than a philosopher. But then that sort of backfired when she said that there friends wanted to know if I could prove that there is life after death.