Image copyright facebook.com/TheDadNetwork Image caption The image that got people talking on Reddit about parenting stereotypes 
 
 "Aww, it's so nice of you to babysit and give mom a break." 
 
 "I guess you got stuck with the kids today." 
 
 "You've got a good helper here!" 
 
 These are just some of the things that have been said to dads who have been looking after their children, according to testimonies on Reddit, where the topic has sparked a flurry of conversation. 
 
 It began when a user shared an image of a t-shirt bearing the slogan: "Dads don't babysit, it's called parenting." 
 
 The man in the picture modelling the t-shirt is Al Ferguson from The Dad Network. 
 
 He posted a picture of himself online a while ago wearing the t-shirt, but the image has resurfaced on Reddit, and it's got people talking about parenting stereotypes. 
 
 "I've had people ask me 'Are you looking after the kids today?' Or 'I can tell you've dressed the baby today,'" he told BBC Trending. 
 
 "It's just out of date. The modern dad is more active in their family life than they were historically. It's out of date to assume the mum is the primary caregiver." 
 
 Although the number of dads who choose to stay at home and care for their children is on the rise, a 2014 study by the Pew Research Centre showed that only 16% of primary caregivers are men. 
 
 Image copyright Al Ferguson, The Dad Network Image caption Al Ferguson with his son, documents his life as a dad on his blog The Dad Network. 
 
 Over 3,000 people have responded to the suggestion that dads are only "babysitting" when they are - of course - parenting. 
 
 Some dads shared their own experiences on Reddit. 
 
 "It hurt really bad when I was a new stay-at-home dad and people would ask about me babysitting… It really made me almost cry sometimes because it was like they couldn't see me as a caretaker," one user wrote. 
 
 Others broadened the conversation to talk more generally about the sexism that dads experience. 
 
 "Reminds me of all those ridiculous commercials where they make it seem like dads don't know how to take care of their kids while mom is away," said another Redditor. "They make a mess, kids go crazy, they don't know how to cook, clean, change a diaper...where's all the outrage?" 
 
 Another user wrote "Single dad here. It's even worse when my seven year old wants to have a sleepover… I call the parents. I explain she wants to have a sleepover and your kid is invited. Then the awkward question, will mom be there? And when you explain, no mom here - sorry, there's that long pause. Sad to say to this day she still hasn't had a sleepover." 
 
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 Others disagreed that it was sexist. "It goes the other way too. My husband will occasionally say that 'You owe me for babysitting last Saturday'… You are their father, you were parenting!" one user posted. 
 
 Al Ferguson says it's not just the language that contributes to the gendered stereotypes, there are other barriers to equality that they're fighting, such as baby changing facilities typically being in the ladies toilets. 
 
 "Now there are more working mums and more stay at home dads. There's been a cultural shift. I think that people need to move with the times." 
 
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 You can follow BBC Trending on Twitter @BBCtrending, and find us on Facebook. All our stories are at bbc.com/trending. ||||| That's why the National At-Home Dad Network (NAHDN) created a T-shirt to remind the world: "Dads Don't Babysit (It's called 'Parenting')." 
 
 NAHDN/Teespring The message should be obvious, but the comments parents still hear today suggest otherwise. 
 
 All proceeds from the shirt sales will go toward the NAHDN Scholarship Fund, which helps low-income fathers attend the organization's Annual At-Home Dads Convention, according to the Teespring campaign. 
 
 It states, "Help the National At-Home Dad Network spread the message that a dad cannot babysit his own kids. If he's caring for them, it's called 'parenting.'" ||||| (CNN) Some single moms say they have to be both mother and father to their kids. 
 
 So a Texas mom decided to dress for the part when her son's school had a Donuts with Dad event. 
 
 Yevette Vasquez of Fort Worth dressed liked a dad -- with a baseball cap, plaid shirt, fake mustache and a dash of cologne -- so her son, Elijah, wouldn't miss out on the event. 
 
 "Yeah, it's the first time I've dressed as a man," Vasquez laughingly told CNN. "We're going to remember this forever." 
 
 She posted the pictures of her dad getup on Facebook, and it's been a viral hit, shared thousands of times. 
 
 The outfit 
 
 When she and Elijah had first pulled up to Sue Crouch Intermediate School last week, she wondered why there were so many cars in the parking lot. That was when Elijah told her about the doughnuts event, slyly adding, "You got 10 minutes until the bell rings." 
 
 Since they live only a block from school, they raced home and put together the dad outfit in just 7 minutes. 
 
 Elijah helped by giving her the mustache and his plaid shirt. He also shaped her look. 
 
 "He was telling me what I should wear," said Vasquez. And when it wasn't manly enough, he let her know. 
 
 "He kept saying, 'No, you still look like a girl!'" she said. 
 
 The reaction 
 
 When they returned to the school, Vasquez said she most of the dads there supported her impromptu response. 
 
 "Most of the dads thought it was really cool," she said. "They thought it was really supportive and sweet. I did feel the energy of a few men who weren't as comfortable with it though." 
 
 Elijah was more than all right with it. 
 
 "He was really excited," she said. "He was shaking and said, 'Thank you.' I told him, 'I did this for you so you can have fun.'" 
 
 The reaction online has been positive, too. Vasquez said she's heard from single parents all over the world, sharing with her their own parenting triumphs and struggles. 
 
 #wegettingthemdonuts 
 
 Vasquez said she dressed as a dad because she wanted to have fun with her son and because there had been other times when Elijah missed out on a school activity that involved dads. 
 
 "I saw that same, sad look on his face, and I didn't want that," she said. "I wish I would have done it sooner." 
 
 But there was one thing she didn't get to do that day -- eat a doughnut. 
 
 Even though she dressed up like a man specifically for the Donuts with Dad event -- and put the hashtag #wegettingthemdonuts on her post -- she was too nervous to eat, so she gave her doughnut to Elijah. 
 
 Will she ever break out the plaid shirt and fake mustache at school again? 
 
 "I may have to do it again," she says, because her two younger sons want "dad" there when they're old enough to go to Donuts with Dad. ||||| The viral image. Photo: Tumblr/Kristine Speare 
 
 A photo of a dad in a “Feminist Father” polo shirt has gone swiftly viral on Tumblr, where it’s been liked and shared more than 196,000 times since being posted by the man's proud daughter on Sunday. 
 
 
 
 "He's very supportive of me and the decisions I make for myself; he cares so much about me and my passion for feminism," Kristine Speare, 20, tells Yahoo Shine through a Twitter message regarding her father, Chuck, a restaurant owner in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. "He completely agrees with the shirt's message." 
 
 
 
 The buzzed-about black shirt — available on Zazzle for $48.90 — is emblazoned, on its back, with the following warning: 
 
 
 
 “Rules for dating my daughter 
 
 1. I don’t make the rules 
 
 2. You don’t make the rules 
 
 3. She makes the rules 
 
 4. Her body, her rules 
 
 Feminist Father” 
 
 
 
 Speare, a part-time Burlington County College student who also works in her dad's restaurant, describes herself on Twitter as a “feminist, coffee addict, book lover." She is fond of posting playfully empowered selfies, tweeted several messages using the popular #YesAllWomen hashtag, and offered this thought recently: “How does what I do with my body in any way affect you? Oh right, it doesn’t.” The image of her dad in the shirt was retweeted by Caitlin Stasey, an Australian TV star known for her sexually-themed tweets, whose 39.5 thousand followers no doubt helped boost Speare's image into going viral. The two had following exchange: 
 
 “@caitlinstasey: @kristinespeare that's your dad!? Awesome, wonderful, touching, awesome” yes! He is a very proud feminist father 😊 — Kristine Speare (@kristinespeare) June 15, 2014 
 
 The image also got a lot of mileage from RH Reality Check, which posted it to its Facebook page, inspiring more than 14,000 likes and 20,000 shares. There were several critics in the mix, with one noting, “What a terrible way to parent. Kids need rules and boundaries set for them.” That was reminiscent of a January story posted on conservative opinion website PJ Media, in which a columnist, who saw an image of this shirt on Facebook, railed against its message, calling it "pathetic and disturbing" and "signaling to every male predator out there that his daughter is available for victimization." 
 
 
 
 But a great many of the Facebook commenters were supportive of Speare's father this week, including a dad who chimed in with this: “My 16 year old's new boyfriend the other day asked my permission to date my daughter, and I told him basically the same thing. I trust her to do the right thing, and she trusts me to back her up.” 
 
 
 
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– The message may seem so obvious as to not require stating, but a photo of a shirt that reads "Dads Don't Babysit (It's Called 'Parenting')" has sparked a larger conversation about parenting on Reddit and beyond. The man behind the shirt, Al Ferguson of The Dad Network, posted the shirt-with-a-message a while ago, but it surfaced again on Reddit just this week and has more than 3,000 comments, many from fathers sharing their own stories about how tired they are of being called a "babysitter" while watching their kids. One in six dads now stays at home with the kids, reports the BBC, yet dads still regularly hear comments such as, "Aww, it's so nice of you to babysit and give mom a break" or "I guess you got stuck with the kids today." The shirt itself is available on Teespring, and doesn't just come in men's sizes. (Kid versions read, "My Dad Doesn't Babysit (It's Called 'Parenting')." All proceeds go toward a scholarship fund that helps low-income fathers attend an annual at-home dads convention put on by the National At-Home Dad Network, reports the Huffington Post. The dads-as-babysitters message isn't just harmful to fathers, reports ATTN. As Ellen Kate wrote for Everyday Feminism in 2014, "We continue to have overall lower expectations for fathers than for mothers. The result is that mothers continue to be viewed more critically than fathers, who are often given credit for simply showing up." (Check out this dad's "feminist father" shirt that went viral in 2014.)