View on you own dad

How has your views on your dad changed, now that we are the age they were when we were young?

For me becoming a dad made me realize how bad my dad was in parenting and that he „retreated“ to work to avoid being at home because of that. Most of my childhood I only saw him on weekends and then he’d did not want to play because he was exhausted.

As a dad that works full-time himself (and a mother that does the same) I can better relate to the exhaustion but recognize he’d choose the „easy“ path. I’m still not sure if I can be mad at him. We both split our parenting 50/50 and are able to spent most of the day with our daughter and work in the evening when she is asleep. But for him the model he choose what was the established standard.