Urlacher Paints Son’s Toenails: So What?
If he weren’t in one of the manliest professions on the planet (professional football player? come on testosterone), I’d still laugh at the claims against Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher. His ex-girlfriend says their son comes home from Dad’s house with nail polish on his toes and Cinderella Pull-Ups ’round his waist. I say, who cares?
Urlacher says he took his baby mama to court for violating a January court order that was supposed to guarantee he’d have their son, Kennedy, every Monday afternoon through Tuesday evening. Then her name started showing up in newspapers, claiming the football player’s been painting Kennedy’s toenails with blue polish and sending him home wearing princess Pull-Ups. Urlacher says its true – the boy’s sisters paint his toes, and what kind of Pull-Up ends up on the boy – or his three-year-old sister – is simply the one he grabs from the pile.
I’m sure Urlacher’s fame plays a role in all of this. As one of those
non-football watching Americans (sorry guys, I did my shuffle to the
couch after Thanksgiving dinner and settled in for a chick flick), I
don’t know much about the guy, how he plays or what he’s done. But this is sounding more and more like a “nothing” case with each story I read. There are no reports (that I’ve read anyway) saying he hits his child, denies him food or clothing. As for shelter, the guy is actually taking Tyna Robertson to court so he can spend MORE time with the boy under his roof.
Could these really be the kinds of accusations used to prove someone’s an unfit parent?
I’d hardly call this gender bending. My three-year-old daughter prefers the “boy” dress up box we picked out to the “girl” box. She immediately donned the cowboy vest and hat along with a Batman face mask and pirate sword and pronounced herself Super Larry (your guess is as good as mine). Most parents would congratulate us for opting to give her the choice instead of presenting the typical box of pink tutus and shipping the pirate garb to a cousin’s son. Shouldn’t it work both ways?
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I agree with Sue. Apart from what seems the norm, I wish my daughter were a little more girlie. Pretty clothes and hair doodads would be nice for a change over Chucks and pants with chains on them (she’s now a teen).
It’s sickening what lengths people will go to to accuse and punish other people. Three of our kids are still in “night time” pull-ups and I WISH there were unisex ones available, because invariably we run out of one kind and just use a girl one for a boy or vice-versa.
I agree, Jeanne, it should work both ways. Recently I posted to a private message board about how I was taking my daughters to the Am. Girl Doll store and almost every response from each poster went on and on about how THEIR daughters hated those dolls and how proud they were that their daughters were able to have a mind of their own (the implication being….)
It truly was just a post about why I would be out of touch for a couple days, I never asked for anyone’s opinion about how they felt about my daughters’ toys. It was really strange. For some reason it is uber-cool for girls to love dirt, mud and boy’s toys, but not for boys to like anything considered girlie.