Dad’s world: How about some slow parenting?

LAST month, a 28-year-old father of two from Pennsylvania posted a photo on the social media network Reddit entitled “Just being a Dad”.

In the shot, Jon Arigo is seen sitting on his couch playing a computer game with his bare feet laid out on a sticker-covered coffee table. While his one-year-old daughter, Kylie, snuggles up beside him and stares at the TV screen, his three-year-old, Emilia, paints her father’s toe nails. On a another table in the background several more bottles of nail varnish are visible and what appears to be a pop-up book. Later we’re informed that the hands were done too.

Reaction to the photo was huge and not all of it, as you’ve probably guessed, was positive. While some said the photo “warmed [their] heart” and was “awesome”, others suggested that the snap looked “less like multitasking and much more like an amazing ability to ignore his kids”.