# A Father's Day Musing: Can Single Moms Do It Right? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 17, 2012, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fathers-day-musing-can-single-moms-do-it-right/625405 "2012-06-17T06:12:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mister\_nyx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@mister\_nyx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mister_nyx)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fathers-day-musing-can-single-moms-do-it-right/625405/21 "2012-06-17T19:05:06Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > Other than how to pee standing up and whack off, nothing a woman can’t teach a boy. WTF? . . . a dad teaching his son how to jerk it is perhaps the most terrifying thing that I have ever contemplated. ---
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fathers-day-musing-can-single-moms-do-it-right/625405/22 "2012-06-18T01:59:47Z")
Nooo kiddding…I will let him figure that out himself. As far as the peeing thing goes, that’s actually kind of funny. I didn’t realize he was supposed to be peeing standing up by now. So I told him he had to practice. He did. The first couple of times I made him clean up his mess…but then he got the hang of it. I remember when he found out what a circumcision was. He was in the bathroom for like 40 minutes trying to figure out what was missing. Anyway…[Best kid ever.](http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/s720x720/550578_10100127453509362_148085606_n.jpg) It was a good day. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fathers-day-musing-can-single-moms-do-it-right/625405/23 "2012-06-18T02:44:23Z")
So what did he do for you on Mother’s Day? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fathers-day-musing-can-single-moms-do-it-right/625405/24 "2012-06-18T02:53:36Z")
Please don’t tell us it was whacking off. ---
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fathers-day-musing-can-single-moms-do-it-right/625405/25 "2012-06-18T03:35:50Z")
There was the breakfast, the picnic/playground (that was the photo upthread), the trip to the mall (he even was nice while I found a pair of jeans and then lost myself in the Gap), the indoor playground at the mall, the frozen yogurt shop, and finally dinner at home. We kinda did nice stuff for each other all day. I got a kick out of [this](http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/s720x720/550766_10100127638234172_438007730_n.jpg) and [this](http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/s720x720/538385_10100127637919802_1245597915_n.jpg). I stopped at Dollar Tree on the way home because I had to get teacher stuff and he insisted I close my eyes while he shopped with my card. It was a blast. 😃 I felt especially loved. And apparently I wasn’t weird with the mom/Father’s Day thing, because I had a couple of “Happy Father’s Day!” messages on my Facebook this morning. Just ten minutes ago he was whining that it was bedtime but he’s snoring as I type. We are exhausted. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fathers-day-musing-can-single-moms-do-it-right/625405.md?page=1)