In 1984, President Ronald Reagan officially designated March 21 as a day of acknowledgement for the hard work of single parents nationwide.

Three decades later, too few of us are aware of the holiday, including most single parents themselves. In a new heartwarming ad from Angel Soft, single dads and moms are told about the holiday and share what it’s like to raise their kids without any additional help.

“He is the coolest kid ever,” a single dad named Jonathon says of his three-year-old son. “[But] it was a new world to me: the teething, the crying at night, the unexplained rashes.”