Aussie dad fuming over “disgusting” Father’s Day gift
An Australian dad has been left fuming over a “disgusting” gift his six-year-old made for him at school for Father’s Day.
Trent Howard from Perth was horrified when his young daughter handed him a paper activity dice that she made during class, featuring multiple ideas for dads when they’re having a bad day.
“Frog for the times when you need to jump to it,” one side reads, while the others suggest Trent eat a Sherbie for when he’s lost all his “fizz” and a banana “for the days when you have ‘gone round the bend’”.
However, he said it was the last option that left him “disgusted”, as it reads, “Bullet — take when all else fails.”
The concerned father told 9News that the gift is very worrying for his young daughter as it “promotes suicide”.
“If you’ve had enough, shoot yourself, what else does it say? I have a weird sense of humour, that’s not part of any sense of humour to anybody,” he said.
Trent and his wife, who “have suicide in [their] families”, complained to their daughter’s school over the tone deaf project, which has since apologised to all parents and promised to never recreate the activity.
“They wanted to be funny, that was my interpretation of what the teacher had said to me. It wasn’t funny,” Trent’s wife Renea said.
Mr Howard said the gift highlighted a flippant attitude towards suicide and mental health issues, as he said, “It’s not cool, it needs to stop.”
The Department of Education told 9News the Father’s Day gift “showed a serious lack in judgement”.
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