Father Of The Year: The Dad Who Wears Skirts To Support His Son

staff
August 29, 2012 05:26 AM
Share This:
Share on Google+

Now this is an amazing story of a father and his son, amazing enough to actually define the pure and immaterial relation between a father and his child. Nils Pickert’s 5-year-old son likes to wear dresses and skirts. So in a show of solidarity with the dressing sense of his child Pickert also started wearing them!

Father Of The Year

Image From: Tumblr

Back when he lived in West Berlin, the dressing style was definitely a conversation starter, but not much more than that. Now however, Pickert and his son live in a very traditional South German village.

While talking to a magazine Pickert said: "I didn't want to talk my son into not wearing dresses and skirts." He added, "He [my son] didn't make friends in doing that in Berlin already and after a lot of contemplation I had only one option left: To broaden my shoulders for my little buddy and dress in a skirt myself."

 At first, Pickert’s son was reluctant to wear such dresses in public, fearing that he would become a laughing stock at his school. But all that changed one day when on a ‘skirt and dress day’ he and his dad made a resident of the town stare so hard she slammed into the street light.

You want definition of a cool dad? Nils Pickert and his fatherly love say it all.


Carbonated.TV

 Favorite






Leave a comment
480 characters remaining
Post Comment
To comment you need to Login | Guest User
jennam1212
0 Follower(s) | Follow
268 days, 2 hours ago
*avoided had more parents applauded their children for who they are, NO MATTER who they are. Way to go Dad!!
Reply
Share
jennam1212
0 Follower(s) | Follow
268 days, 2 hours ago
High-five to this wonderful father for showing his son that it’s okay to embrace what fulfills him, regardless of what gender role sterotypes and social stigmas would lead us consider ‘normal’!! I hope more parents take note, as this sort support can have monumental impact in their child’s self-perceptions, self-acceptance, and overall development as a worthy human being. Imagine the lives that could have been saved, or the years of emotional distress that could have been avo
Reply
Share
vforba  (Post as a guest)
0 Follower(s)
268 days, 3 hours ago
A few hundred years ago it was not uncommon for boys to wear dresses. This was done until they were a certain age. It was often referenced that a young boy's hems would be raised as he reached a certain age. But over all I am not a proponent of boys wearing dresses, but men wore robes for centuries over their pants.
Reply
Share
RTW  (Post as a guest)
0 Follower(s)
268 days, 3 hours ago
I am a woman. From the time I was 4 to about age 10 or 11 I liked to dress like a boy. I didn't like girls clothes or girls pursuits such as playing with dolls, etc. Around puberty I started to like looking pretty and wearing pretty clothes. I still like sports and don't like dolls. My parents never freaked out about my choice of dress. They simply let me be myself. I'm not gay, but if I was my parents wouldn't have loved me any less. Great dad! Just llike mine.
Reply
Share


Login