I still remember when my oldest son became old enough to play by himself in another room. Forget crawling, eating solid foods or saying their first word; this is the kind of milestone that a parent can really get excited about. Or maybe it’s more of a dad thing…. Either way, I can still recall how amazing it felt to
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Mostly, kids are dumb. It’s not their fault, they haven’t had the opportunity to learn as much as we have. One distinct advantage to that however is that they haven’t had the opportunity to be ruined by this cold, cruel world of ours. So call it wisdom or call it good timing but there are lessons to be learned from
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Life is that moment of peace on a Monday morning before the kids are up. It’s the burbling coffee pot, audibly intimate and aromatically arousing. Life is also that moment directly after the kids have risen from their slumber only to sabotage your tranquility with cantankerous gripes and spilled orange juice. It’s Cap’n Crunch crunch berries crunched under bare feet
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I feel a calling. It is not a conscious decision, based upon deductive reasoning. It is not an experiment that I wish to conduct in order to tinker with the inner workings of my family. It is simply a truth that I know I must follow. I feel God in my life and I seek redemption. Today, for the first
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“Don’t you look at me with that face.” I hear myself say. It’s as if I’m having an out of body experience, watching myself scold my children. I say things like, “You get what you get and you dont throw a fit.” Or, “because I said so, that’s why.” As I leave the room, I’m sure they are flipping me
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Peter Parker was bitten by a radioactive spider, Batman’s insanely rich parents were murdered in front of him and I knocked up my girlfriend when I was 24. Every superhero has a tragic backstory; this is mine. It was the summer of 2008. I drank a lot of beer but I also drank a lot of whiskey. Looking back, I
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Sure, fatherhood is about love and tenderness and all that other crap; but it’s also about introducing the most dangerously, fun things to them at an inappropriately young age. In theory, we are teaching them to handle new skills in a safe and responsible way. In truth, we are just waiting from the moment they are born for the day
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