Terrible parent stories almost always gives me a stomach ache. I'm a natural fretter and hearing grim parenting tales just makes me worry more. I like to believe that most of us do a pretty good job far from the madding crowd, and that stories like James Kim's are more representative of the steely insides of most parents than those told on Parent's Behaving Badly.
So the story of a Scottish man who saved his 6 week old baby twin girls from a blazing house fire, is heartening. Apparently, the man was awoken by his trusty pet dog who barked loud warnings and eventually woke up what one assumes is one very very tired Daddy. Ahhhh.
Parenting requires extraordinary strength and stamina. I think men and women bring very different, but equally crucial skills to the project of raising kids. And although we aren't generally asked to climb burning buildings in a single bound to save our offspring, I have no doubt many of us would do it, with or without the red cape.
