Giovanna Fletcher is done with people parent-shaming her husband Tom

Giovanna Fletcher is fed up of her husband, Tom Fletcher’s, parenting skills being called into question.

Taking to Instagram to praise Tom for being a “hands-on” dad, the mum to three-year-old Buzz and one-year-old Buddy, explained that constantly being asked how involved her husband is in their children’s life has started to bother her.

“There’s one question that has started grating on me, and that’s: ‘Is Tom a hands-on dad?’, along with: ‘What’s he like as a father?’ or ‘Has he surprised you in his new role?’” she wrote alongside an image of Tom with their two boys.

“I’ll say straight away that Tom is an amazing dad. He is one half of the parenting team and we very much do everything together. I feel fully supported in the knowledge that parenting, for us, is a mutual responsibility.”

Giovanna went on to say that she wouldn’t be able to keep working if Tom didn’t help her with the children as much as he did.

“I guess the thing that started to irk me about those questions, is that no one would ever ask Tom what I was like as a mum, or ponder over my involvement, or dare to ask if I was any good at it,” she continued.

“So the fact Tom, and all dads, are having their skills questioned as though being ‘hands-on’ is optional, is a murky area for me. I feel like we’ve moved on as a society. Dads are more involved. Well, in my eyes, they should be.”

The author and TV presenter then went on to urge others not to “dumb down her husband” or any other dad who has chosen to juggle their work/life balance in order to accommodate their families.

“Don’t treat dads who interact with their children like they’re doing something alien that warrants your praise,” she said.

“If you wouldn’t do it to a mum, don’t do it to a dad.”

Giovanna finished her post by thanking dads who are doing the best for their families.

“Whether you’ve stopped your ‘day job’ to take over the main bulk of responsibilities, whether you’re sharing everything as evenly as possible, or whether you’re out doing shift work and working all the hours possible to provide for your family – whatever you’re doing with your family in mind, thank you,” she concluded.

Since posting her dad-positive post it has been liked more than 60K times and received praise from other parents thanking her for recognising the important role many dads play.

“I absolutely love this post!! My husband is a doting father, people are always surprised and say “oh you’re so lucky to have him”, “your father wouldn’t have done that”, or my favourite “it’s not fair for your husband to do so much, you need to stop working”,” one mother wrote.

“Like really? We both work to give our babies the best we can. And it’s so hard trying to juggle but so much easier knowing we are in it together, no competition, not this new “today’s day and age”, just your standard co-parenting that people do in the 21st century,” she continued.

“Well said!,” another added. “I hate it when people say what a good dad my husband is because he will get up and do stuff with the children or he takes them out or just normal day to day things like get them ready for school/Childminder’s while I’m at work. He wanted these children as much as I did there fore we share the responsibility of parenting them. He is a brilliant daddy but not for the reasons above just because he is!”

“My partner has had people say to him …”oh out with daddy…where’s mummy” like its an alien concept for dads to look after the kiddies,” another women added.

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