Kudos to good fathers

Having previously thought they were both publicity hungry z-listers I've been incredibly surprised by how he's dealing with this and how he's coming over as a more genuine person and an involved father - KP on the other hand continues to come is much as per expectations ... which are low anyway

I couldn't agree more LTP. I honestly believe those children mean everything to him and this isn't any kind of act for sympathy.

I do think he is coming across well and I've always thought he seemed genuinely nice (sometimes a bit too nicey nice) but I can't help but feel very sorry for KP too. I think she's in a quite a bad place at the minute and hope she sorts herself out.

Presumably they are sharing the kids, and, he just had a holiday while she had them and now she is holidaying while he has them.

I don't think he's doing anything THAT amazing - he is looking after his own kids. If that's an amazing feat these days then that is quite scary.

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I think it's very sad actually, it's quite clear her behaviour is all a front and she's struggling with it all. OK, probably not the best way to handle things, but she's only human.

If the kids are with Pete (and therefore can't be with her at the same time), why shouldn't she go out and use the time to be with friends?

She's always come across as a really good devoted mother (as has Pete as a father), and I don't think her current behaviour when not with the kids should have any effect on that [shrug].

WMSS

If I was to get a week's holiday without my son with my friends I know full well I wouldn't be sitting at home with a cup of cocoa each night... Admittedly, I'd probably be in bed most nights at 10pm trying to catch up on some sleep rather than nightclubbing until 6am ?, however each to their own & all that [shrug]

I'm really not sure Peter is 100% the injured party in all of this TBH - their TV show has made pretty uncomfortable viewing in the past couple of weeks with the way in which they have spoken to each other & the words that they have said. You could see that neither of them were happy as far back as the beginning of the year.

Peter is taking responsibilty for his own children. Katie presumably did exactly the same whilst he had a holiday on his own in Cyprus when they first split up... and yet no one thinks that that is anything special or newsworthy.....

Just MHO

I agree with Lois, he's looking after his own children the same way KP did when he was away.

She had a week's holiday, that's all, and trying to deal with the break up of her marriage at the same time. I went to Ibiza for a wild holiday when my son was 4 and I wasn't trying to deal with the fact my husband had just left me. I would hate to have been judged on it.

I'm sure he is a good dad, just as I'm sure KP is a good mum. I'm sure neither of them are angels but I don't buy Andre's saint act for a minute, especially the oh so convenient pictures of him playing superdad. At least with KP what you see is what you get.

I agree with the people that have said about PA only doing what a father should be doing and KP letting her hair down. I think that she is dealing with it the way he feels comfortable doing. Maybe not right, but would anyone have said anything if it was him partying in Ibiza.

PA seems to have the media right on his side, I noticed that the Sun were calling him St.Peter and KP The ***

Whatever the rights and wrongs of it all, it IS great to see a father publicly being a dad to his children rather than just walking away when the relationship ends. Lots of dads do that, but it seems that the image we usually get is of mum left with children while dad goes off to start again with someone else.

I don't generally follow the trials and tribulations of media couples who split up, so I can't comment on how they normally behave ref. children. Still, it would be nice to think they were just getting on with it, rather than ding it for cameras/self promotion

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Well, I'd say from this thread that Peter Andre has a good media advisor and that Jordan could perhaps do with a re-think towards her one ?

Seriously though, I think a good father would refrain from using his children as a way of scoring points in the tabloid press against their mother. And vice versa.

I feel sorry for their children.

I think a mantion should go to Jade Goodys ex, Jeff Brazier, for keeping the boys away from the press and public eye, so that they can try to lead a normal a life as possible.

I think LTP meant that PA isn't retaliating to any of the bitching being thrown in his direction. He's just getting on with being a father whilst being in the public eye.

Didn't they use the same agency unti the split, when they chose to go with PA as they had a longer relationship with him?

absolutely. good for PA and all that, but does he need the cameras there at every opportunity?

on the same vein, i was completely ? that john terry was voted 'celebrity dad of the year' this week. surely one smallish criterea of being a good dad is not cheating on their mother? or am i being terribly old fashioned there?

WPLS.

I agree about Jeff Brazier.

What about single Dads? Or divorced Dads? They can all be good fathers too. Just because they are a sh*t husband/boyfriend/whatever, shouldn't affect their abilities as a decent father IMO.

By the by, I didn't realise he had cheated? Blimey... I obviously missed that snippet... ?

Absolutley. I have to say I felt like abit of a rubbish mother this year when I had to take time off work for stress due to a number of reasons including my husband leaving. Looking back I can now see how ill I was as I had all the classic signs of someone who was stressed and had hit "burn out". On the outside it looked like I was coping and on the inside I was a mess. Three weeks after my husband left I went to the Maldives (it had been booked for a year) and took some time out and a break from everybody in my day to day llife. I left my daughter wiith her very capable father who although had hurt me and our future was unknown I knew he was very devoted to her and would do a very good job of looking after her.

bit difficult to cheat on the mother of your children if you're single or divorced.

and while, yes, you can be a good dad in terms of looking after the children, spending time with them etc, i think if you cheat on their mother while still living with them as a family, then the disrespect and distain you're treating her with does erode your 'great dad' status.

especially when you're in the position your children will be able to read about it in years to come