From the Flinders Room

As part of our unit ‘Our Family Tree: Out on a Limb’, we recently had a chat about our fathers and what their roles are within a family.
Is a dad just a dad?
William- ‘He is the oldest.’
Federico- ‘My dad is very special to me and sometimes he takes me out to the movies. Sometimes he talks to me. He has a day off when he has to play with me- we play Potato Head. It’s on Toy Story 1. For work he does some lights and he serves some money to someone.’
Mark- ‘He’s a father.’
Hugo- ‘He’s a husband. My dad’s not the oldest in our family. My cat is the oldest. My cat’s even older than my grandfather. I think it was 13 or something.’
What else can a dad be- dad, husband, father….?
Tom S- ‘Uncle.’
What’s an uncle?
Tom S-‘You need to have some friends who used to come over to your house to sort of connect up to you. They’re sort of in your family cause they’re your nephew.’
Mark- ‘You need to be an old man- like about 60.’
Lachlan- ‘Husband.’
Can a dad be a son?
William- ‘Dad’s are parents. They were sons but they’re grown up.’
Hugo- ‘They’re too old to be a son. They still have parents. They grow up to adults.’
William- ‘Actually they can because they still have their parents.’
Clark-‘He doesn’t actually just have himself. He has mummy, me and my sister and my dog. His mum’s still alive but his dads dead. His brothers and sisters, they died. They got really old and some of them, one got run over by a car and a few of them their hearts stopped beating.’
Federico- ‘You grow up and you marry someone. Then you become a human.’
Isaac R- ‘Our dads can actually be grandpas.’
Mark- ‘My dad is my cousin’s brother. My dad is his friend and his brother- Uncle Frank. They don’t live with us- they’re just our cousins.’
Jasper- ‘He can be a fire fighter or a doctor. He can be just a dad at home. He is mummy’s husband. He is Aunty Chris’s brother.’
Are you a son?
Kyle-‘Don’t know’
Thomas- ‘Cause our parents were born in someone else and their parents were born in someone else. Then they are grandparents. If they’re a boy they’re a grandpa and if they’re a grandma.’