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The Difference Between Mothers and Fathers (at the beach)
By Polly | August 28, 2006
There are many differences between mothers and fathers and nothing illustrates this better than my recent day away while my husband watched the kids at the beach…
- Mothers take the time to carefully and thoroughly apply sunscreen to each child in order prevent any sunburns. While fathers think it is about time the kids learn to do it themselves and three bottles of sunscreen later the kids are still sunburned.
- Mothers make sure to plan and offer the kids healthy lunches complete with a vegetable and fruit while fathers keep them from complaining with fruit roll ups and juice boxes telling them all along their mother will make them something when she gets home.
- Mothers sit close by on the water’s edge to closely watch that their children don’t drown while fathers wander down the beach to play a game of horseshoes and occasionally glance over their shoulder to be sure no one is drowning or being attacked by sharks.
- Mothers carefully plan their day so her not quite 2 year old can be taken back to the house to nap peacefully in her crib while fathers abandon the schedule entirely and make do with a hole in the sand.
- Mothers spend the rest of the night soothing sunburns and cleaning sand out of eyes while fathers brag about how easy it is to watch the kids and try to tell the mothers how they are doing it all wrong.
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August 29th, 2006 at 9:44 pm
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September 14th, 2006 at 7:32 pm
[...] We had a great vacation in August to Sunset Beach with our friends the Loutzenhisers (yes there really is a last name worse than Schlafhauser). You can read a little about it in my recent blog post The Difference Between Mothers and Fathers and The Rebuttal. Joe survived the drama of seven girls just fine. [...]