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She is taking advantage of the family leave bonding time you can take within the first year of birth. Our son is 10 months, and we have a 3 year old daughter as well. Granted it’s not paid and traveling is going to be a pain this summer with the virus, but I’m excited nonetheless. She’s...

I come into the living room only to see him pointing at a truck outside the window. Needless to say, I lost it…

Tuesday the 6th of June 2023 my partner went into Labour 39 weeks and 3 days. Our first. 6 hours later a scan revealed no heart beat, after 9 months of perfect scans, perfect growth weight and the little bugger doing ju-jitsu in her belly it was over. It was being induced Saturday. My last 48...

Dads I felt like a piece of poop at 11pm, when I realized most places are closed in my area, that the tooth fairy would disappoint a 7 and 10yr old. But dad guilt woke me up and reminded me of the gas station that was now open 24/7 again. I went in and purchased an item and the clerk was more...

And to preface the story it was a good kind. We were watching Encanto: me, my wife and my 5 year old when mid movie our 8 month old wakes up so my wife goes and gets him and decides to just hold him. He’s teething so he’s been a little fussy lately even after a good nap. A few min later I...

It great because there is no voice acting required, puts the kid to sleep way quicker... And now he can name and recite stats planets when prompted with a number from 1-8. :D

It's so hard not to laugh and it's simultaneously mortifying. Do I ask my wife to explain to her what that means or leave it be?

I'm at Chick FIL A today with 4/o daughter who is playing with some kids and a 7ish year old boy in the play area. They are laughing and playing tag and hide and go seek. Inbetween rounds they are standing and talking and the 7 y/o boy slapped her arm hard my daughter immediately started...

Currently on a small beach vaca with the family. It’s rainy today, so we revectored and are heading to an indoor playground for my 7yo to burn some energy. We decided to stop for coffee and breakfast on the way out. We are at a cafe and the kid wants a decaf latte, so we get her one. It’s...

So I have 9y.o. and 2 5 y.o.s. Like most parents, when we had just 1 kid we were quite good about limiting screentime but as the twins got older we found 30 - 45 minutes of screentime creeping into most days. And every time we had to get kids off screens to eat, bathe, etc...man, what a fight...

I knew a man from our church & social circle. He was treated normally and was not an outcast type. We live in a relatively small town that is geographically isolated, so you run into acquaintances a lot. This part occurred about 4 years ago. We are at the pool and run into each other. I say...

Dads, and in this case future dads, trust your gut. So my wife and I have been expecting our second for 36 weeks and along the way his measurements started getting "ahead" in size, most clearly by 32 weeks, creating concern of gestational diabetes (for the docs). For me however it always felt...

I took my 4 y/o daughter to lunch today at a local burger joint. When we got there, the place was packed but there was room on their deck/outdoor patio that looks over the parking lot. We grab a table and we're waiting for our food when this big (and I mean big) guy on a motorcycle pulls up...

This was WAY outside my comfort zone. But besides a deeply terrifying John candy/Chevy Chase grease fire inside a very small RV it was basically the greatest time of my whole life. 🤣 She’d recently stopped letting me hold her hand, but all that went out the window as she faced the unknowns of...

Recently our son, Rowan, has started handing us his toys in an attempt to share them with us. It’s so cute. So a few nights ago it was my wife, Rowan, and I sitting on the floor playing. He handed me one of his toys and I said, “Oh are you sharin?” Then I quickly said, “oh you’re not Sharon...

Taken my 3 kids to the QLD coast for Easter, staying in a 4th floor unit. My 12yo and 7yo boys are wet after going swimming and waiting out on the balcony for their sister to get out of the shower. I went to get changed, walk out of the bedroom and my 12yo informs me that his brother just peed...

Me, after noticing he was taking a really long time to eat his breakfast today: - "N, eat your breakfast, we don't want to be late for school" - "We're not late for school." - "We will be if you don't finish up, it's 7:45 already." - "It's not 7:45 already." - "Yes it is, look at the...

Sorry in advance, this is going to be long and rambling but I need to get it out. Characters: Me, Big B (43), wife, H (38, 16 weeks pregnant) and son, little B (8). Background: Both H and little B have had a cold for about a week. Little B is a disgusting human being like all 8 year old boys...

So I’m on day 2 of taking care of our two boys (2 year old and 5 month old) while my wife is out of town for work. Day 1 went pretty smooth, day 2 started out well too…and then nighttime hit and these gremlins of ours decided to join forces to make sure I didn’t have a chance at going to...

Potty talk has been the height of humor for him lately, so in order to prevent our entire dinner conversation from being about eating pee-pee and po-po, we made the rule that there should be no more potty talk or jokes, which was then negotiated (“But what if I NEED to talk about pee-pee and...