Theresa Vargas: An unusual piñata, and a lesson on fatherhood
We had grown up frequently seeing that white-gloved, four-fingered figure on the boxes my dad pulled from the pantry. He and my mom divorced when I was 9 and that meant he had to figure out on his own how to feed us on the nights we stayed with him. During those years, we ateIf you’ve never had that meal-in-a-box, think of it as a no-frills elopement between noodles and ground beef.
My dad is all those things. He’s also a dad who didn’t have a dad in his life when he was growing up. As a child, I didn’t understand the significance of not having a paternal grandfather in my life. But as a parent and a journalist who writes often about the toll of poverty on families, I see constantly how society tends to throw vitriol at families when fathers leave but offers little support or praise to the dads who break cycles of abandonment.
For those dads, I offer encouragement in the form of that Hamburger Helper piñata. I tend to think about it when my own parenting insecurities start to creep in, and in a place like Washington, where ambitions are high, it’s easy for that to happen. Summer camps get booked even before it’s warm outside.
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