When the five-year-old girl was cycling through the future jobs she wanted as most five-year-olds do, one of the ones she landed on got her father in trouble with his neighbors.
The father was called out for “encouraging” his daughter to become a housewife.
“Everyday has been a struggle and most of the time I don’t even know if what I am doing is right so the thought of unintentionally hurting my daughter is filling me with guilt,” wrote the father on the subreddit “r/AmItheA–hole” (AITA). AITA is a Reddit forum for people who are unsure if they’re doing the right thing. RELATED: Husband Wonders If He’s Wrong To Threaten Leaving His Wife After She Took Their Daughter’s Things People will post their problems, their arguments with family, their struggles with raising children, or whatever else is ailing them in the hopes that the strangers perusing the site will give their unbiased opinion that will hopefully validate their decisions. Posts are given a rating, the most common ones being “You’re The A–hole” (YTA) and “Not The A–hole” (NTA), but there are other ones just in case things are a little more complicated than they seem. “My daughter is at that stage where kids pretend they are grown-ups with jobs,” the father wrote. “The jobs differ depending on who she meets or sees on the TV. In the last few months, she wanted to be a teacher, babysitter, truck driver, president, garbage collector, photographer, ‘knee doctor’ (after I injured it), scientist, witch, [and] football steward.” Like any father of a five-year-old child, he did his best to support her by playing along, buying her anything he could afford that would help her play the role. When an old friend of his came to visit and revealed that she was a housewife, the five-year-old cycled to her new profession. He explains that his daughter has now started playing house and expressing her interest in being a housewife. When his neighbors caught wind of the situation, however, they were angry with him. “They told me we aren’t in the 60s anymore and young girls shouldn’t dream about being [housewives] anymore and demanded I stop brainwashing my daughter because her subconscious will start settling for being a housewife instead of dreaming about bigger things,” he wrote. RELATED: Man Wonders If He Was Wrong To Toss Daughter-In-Law’s Things On The Street After She Made A Mess In His Home Fortunately, Reddit was on his side and even commended his parenting efforts. Many sympathized with him, offering up the commonly-known but hardly spoken fact that all parents are winging it and hoping that it goes right. Being a parent is very difficult. Maintaining another human’s happiness all while trying to teach them the right things, behave in the right way, and express themselves in a healthy manner, is no easy feat. The fact that he’s supporting her in the way that he is was enough for the majority of Redditors to give him the NTA rating because a lot of parents don’t even do the bare minimum of supporting their children’s dreams. Plus, she’s only five years old. RELATED: Woman Seeks Advice After Son Reacted Badly To Her Pregnancy & Claimed He Is Forced To Parent His Siblings Isaac Serna-Diez is a writer who focuses on entertainment and news, social justice, and politics. Follow him on Twitter here.
