Journal

"but Mumma, why isn't player x playing in today's game? He's my favourite." It's a fair question for a kiddo to ask and the discussion centred around how you discuss the idea that little Billy's football idol is a sexual predator. How do parents explain it? At what age does this conversation become reasonable?

Not everyone grows up with their dad around, but what's worse is not everyone gets to have a male role model, very few are as lucky as I have been in my life to have three. Not to mention the uncles who supported our family, and the other amazing men in my life who I have been exposed to.

Why I think reading to boys, and expressions of love could be what the world needs right now. A ranticle. Depending on where in the world you live, but assuming you are in a western society, somewhere WASPish, and or anywhere else in which this shit is pervading the world, you may have noticed men being awful. (Awfulness is not only afflicting the abovementioned places, it's just that as a white western dude, I don't feel it's my place to speak on what the rest of the world s