Colin Sheridan: Does society still expect a wartime dad?

Regardless of the crippling consequences of society’s low expectations of men, the day of reckoning comes to all dads, writes Colin Sheridan

The point I’m trying to make to them is that, as my own two children constantly seek my attention, their expectations of me are simply far too high. That I’m not automatically available to play football, build obstacle courses, turn on the TV. File picture

There’s a story a friend from home tells about his younger brother who went travelling after college. 

The brother found himself in Thailand near the end of his trip, when disaster struck in the guise of a tsunami. You remember the one. It killed 230,000 people. Anyway, the brother survived, literally clinging to a tree, before arriving home with nothing but the clothes on his back.