Challenges of Fatherhood

Father and Daughter

It’s the conversations I’ve never expected that throw me for a curve. How do you deal with:

Boy at birthday party: Can I share your daddy?
Ada: No, he is my daddy.
Boy at birthday party: But I don’t have a daddy.

Or when you’re chatting to a guy at a cafe you visit often, and he asks you what you’re doing with your daughter for the weekend. You tell him, and he says, “You sound like a good father. I wish my father had been as good a father as you.”