He has seen me blue and floppy, with a team of medical professionals all working on me.
He’s seen this more than once.
He’s had to tell his family and his mates that I have brain damage. And, when they asked whether I would talk, and walk and play golf… he had to answer with: Maybe…. Maybe not…. Probably not… Maybe.
Dad has had to re-adjust his hopes and dreams for me.
Mum and Dad are an incredibly strong team.
They are lucky; they can talk to each other about the worst things. They have talked to each other. They had to.
Mum has talked with professionals; off-loading her fears and worries.
Mum has met other mothers of children with disabilities. Some of the families inspire her… support her… encourage her. She can share her fears and hopes, and get advice and encouragement.
But, where can Dad go?
Who can he talk to?
It’s hard. We know.
So, where can Dad go for friendship and support?
He's the Dad. He's supposed to be the strong one... the tough one. There's all that 'Men don't cry' and stuff. That's wrong. He needs support, too.
So, where can Dad go?
We’ve been wondering about this for a while, so we looked for an organisation which offers something to Dads like mine.
And, we found Scott and Northcott.
With limited funding and a lot of dedication, he has helped Dads come together to enjoy some fun times.
They don’t sit around and tell sob stories of their children and the hardships life throws at them… They do fun stuff. They build new friendships. They find people they can be honest with… people who won’t be afraid when they talk about their children.
We want to help Scott and his Dad’s group.
We want to find them some vouchers for a few fun weekends.
We want to help them with raising awareness of their group and the importance of enabling Dads to help Dads.
We want to make some Dads smile.
My Dad isn’t in the Northcott Dad's group. (We're not doing this for us.)
At the moment, the Dad's group is only small… There are less than 20 Dads, but… “from little things, big things grow”.
And, we want to help them because we love the idea of Dad's supporting each other.
Someone knows someone, right?
We want you to talk to the people who know someone. We want footy tickets, brewery tours, fishing trips, golfing days and car stuff.
We want all the things that Dad’s would like to do! And, we want them donated! We’ll pass them all on to Scott and his Northcott Dad’s group.
We have the support of Scott.
The Northcott Dad's group meets in the Illawarra, so we would like things they can do in the Illawarra, Sydney or Canberra.
We would definitely share your business details on our social media pages.
Northcott is a charitable organisation. We will give you more information on that, soon. For now, what do you think? Are you up for a challenge?
Can you help some dads smile?
If so, you can message us on this page, email at [email protected] or message us on the Doing it for Dexter facebook page.
Thanks in advance!
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