Q Gift 4 Kids with dads

One of the things I have noticed lately is kids with dads. We expect to see kids with moms, kids with aunts, kids with grandmothers, and kids with older siblings. But the quarantine has given us another scene, kids with dads. It is so refreshing to see the shining faces of little girls and boys as they grasp their dad’s hands when crossing streets, coming in and out of stores, and crossing parking lots. The kids know they have been given an unexpected bonus. Like a sudden ice cream cone. And it is amusing to watch the dads diligently watching and stalking through the parking lot to make sure they’ve collected all of their little ones is a little bit of a throwback to simpler times.
We have grown so accustomed to seeing the swim team mom, the soccer mom, the baseball mom, the football mom, and lacrosse mom, and the only one of those mom titles I missed was lacrosse mom. And I can add stage mom to my resume since my son has done a few school plays. ‘Blank mom’ is an official title in every sport.
Quarantine is causing dads to know their kids without the mother translations in between. The sight of dads at street corners performing the mother bear move before crossing a street, joining their kids as the lead bike of the group, biting their nails as they help with training wheels, cheering their kids as a conquer staying on a skateboard, and watching them successfully dunk a basketball is priceless.
Our children are a gift from God. And being a parent who invests in their gift should never be taken for granted.