It is hard to be a parent to any child but how far would you go to make your child happy or to protect them?
Meet Nils Pickert, a German dad, who has done something that can be called bizarre to protect his son from bullies.
Nils Pickert has a 5-year-old son who likes dressing in little girl’s clothes which he never minded but when they have moved from West Berlin to a small southern town in Germany, he learned that other people did. In fact, it became a “town wide issue,” according to Pickert.
Yahoo News reported that ; A new school didn’t make life any easier for his young son. Shortly after his first day, he stopped reveling in his own tastes and Pickert worried about the damage it could wreak on his self-confidence.
“I didn’t want to talk my son into not wearing dresses and skirts,” Pickert explained. “He didn’t make friends doing that in Berlin… so after a lot of contemplation I had only one option left: To broaden my shoulders for my little buddy and dress in a skirt myself.”
Hand in hand, the Pickerts paraded their custom together around their small village, and soon the shame died away. His son became emboldened again, even giddy at the reactions his father got from slack-jawed strangers. Being different, he found, wasn’t so scary after all, especially when Dad’s got your back.
After Pickert’s son learned that lesson, he began passing the wisdom on to his classmates. If he’s teased now, he tells them: “You don’t dare to wear skirts and dresses because your dads don’t dare to either.”
