At a three year old’s birthday party: “Ada, can I share your daddy? I don’t have a daddy any more.”
At pre-school: “Why do you come to see Ada at lunch times? I don’t see my daddy, he doesn’t live with us any more.”
Talking about weekend plans with the front-of-house in my favourite kebab shop: “Man, you sound like you like to spend time with you kids. I wish my father had been like that.”
There’s not really much you can say.