Daddy In A Skirt
http://www.commondreams.org/further/2012/08/28-4
Coolest Father of the Year Award goes to Nils Pickert, the German dad of a five-year-old son who happens to like to wear skirts and dresses. To protect him from the mockery he knew his son would face after they moved to a small town - "very traditional, very religious. Plainly motherland." - Nils made himself a role model by donning a skirt himself, "to broaden my shoulders for my little buddy."
"You can’t expect a child at pre-school age to have the same ability to assert themselves as an adult. Completely without role model. And so I became that role model."
awesome!
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I love this story - I just want to give both of them a big hug.
http://gawker.com/5938676/father-of-the-year-helps-dress+wearing-son-feel-comfortable-by-putting-on-a-skirt-himself?post=52253057#13464438336642&
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is parenting at its finest.
really cool with regard to GLBT issues, which is not what one would maybe expect from the land formerly home to the Third Reich, but I guess if the US is able to get beyond that fact that we are a country where our president is a member of a class of people of which it was once true that members of that class were officially counted as 2/3's of a member of the larger society, then Germany or any other state can also progress.
Cheers. 
I fell in love with this Nils guy for his totally awesome role as father to his young boy. Really. 
K&R
