nappy change

https://www.storyhulk.com/2019/10/15/fathers-have-started-campaigning-for-baby-changing/?fbclid=IwAR1vSSeW9yiQEgx7i0m-sGebyAH93XqQhHO9jr5cDHvDn9yasGBvLP4u9tQ

A Dad has started a campaign #squatforchange to have public spaces available for men to change their baby's nappy. Often nappy-changing facilities are located in female or disabled toilets,  leaving men to make do in male toilets, squatting on the floor. Dad, Donte Palmer published a photo of himself squatting to change his son's nappy and the photo went viral with other Dads joining the campaign.

The campaign is starting to  work. Pampers has agreed to install 5000 baby changing tables in men's toilets across America and Canada by 2021.

Donte says, "This campaign is changing the narrative of what a father is. the dynamics of showing what a marriage looks like, like showing that marriage equality is important. My wife and I do everything equally - diaper changing is not just my wife's job, it's my job as well."

what do you see in the picture?
where is it taken? what is happening?

explain the story

- why is the man squatting?
- is that the best way to change a nappy? what does he need?
- why doesn't Mum just take the baby and change the nappy on a table in the female toilets? (lots of possible reasons: perhaps he wants to change the nappy; perhaps it's his turn; perhaps he is out without Mum; perhaps he lives in a family with two Dads or perhaps he is a single Dad.)
- why do you think most male public toilets do not have a baby changing table?
- what does this suggest about ideas around which gender should change a nappy?
- "The narrative of what a father is" what does this mean?
- Dante says, "Diaper changing is not just my wife's job, it's my job as well" why does he say that?
- why are ideas about gender roles changing today? (what does gender mean, what does 'gender roles' mean)
- Pampers are a huge company who make nappies and they are now going to fund baby changing tables in male toilets; what does this show about their attitude to gender roles today?
- what can we learn from Dante?
- Why is this about No Outsiders?

No Oustsiders in our school: teaching the equality act in primary schools by Andrew Moffat

Reclaiming radical ideas in schools: preparing young children for life in modern Britain by Andrew Moffat