Big men raising little girls

We often hear about the struggles of single mothers, but not those of single fathers, especially single fathers with daughters. Single fathers who traditionally did not grow up talking and learning about girl's menstruation, nor did they get any education about it. What should they do, what is normal and what is not, how their daughters may be sensitive and not want to talk about it, but they have to tell him because they need him to buy them pads. Some single dads are clueless. All they can do is pick up the phone and call their sister horrified, and have a conversation about her monthly periods for the first time in their lives. They worry. "Is this normal? She is bleeding too much!" Yes, this is normal. "I am going to buy solution x for her so that she can clean herself with it". What? Are you out of your mind?!! It is amazing how these macho-appearing know-it-all men, who never paid attention to what all females around them go through and never gave any woman a break anytime, are faced with reality. "So, one week every month they have to go through this? I wish they were boys for their own sake...." he says. Really? You are saying this?

Life has a funny way of teaching people lessons that no one could teach them no matter how much one tried to.