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I’ve had a heck of a day and just need some solidarity. I have an 8 week old newborn and 2.5 year old twins. I had to take the newborn to the hospital this morning after a scary incident. I put baby down after feeding him so I could put my finished bowl of cereal in the sink. In those short 5...

Sounds stupid when you read that tittle but it applied to me recently , constantly i over analyse my 10 month old and read what she should and should not be doing. In my weekly reading recently I saw my baby should be gesturing in forms of waving and able to clap… I then concerned she hadn’t...

Previous post about Scheduling and the Surgery: https://reddit.com/r/daddit/s/y2puq6EgC4 The Recovery (R): R+0. Not knowing how I would feel after the procedure my dad was kind enough to volunteer to drive me home. I could have driven myself home (maybe not if I had a manual) but it was nice...

When my daughter was about 18 months old she ended up getting a bad cold. Fairly normal for any kid but we kept a close eye on it. After about a week it started to go away slowly. One day two weeks later we received a call from the daycare asking us to pick her up because she had a high fever...

My 13 year old told me today that he broke up with his girlfriend of a few of days because she was sending him explicit pictures and videos and it was too much for him. I am very proud of him for having boundaries and sticking to them and then she said “all boys are the same”. Makes me think...

This morning, I dropped off my 7 yr old for her 2nd day ever of in-person school (she loves 2nd grade so far), and I decided to take the 4 yr old to the park afterward. She hit the swings, we walked down a path in the woods singing "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt" and "Do Your Ears Hang Low"...

Was suggested I crosspost this here. 'sup other Dads? I have a couple of sons. 10 & 14. Got to say I'm more than a little proud of how I've shamelessly manipulated their interests over the past decade. The books I've read to and with them, the movies we've watched together, the games...

Last night I woke up at around 2 AM to find my 3 yr old had left her room and was sitting on the couch in the front room looking at the stars. My first instinct was to get after her about being up at such a late hour and to shoo her back to her room, but after walking over and talking to her...

Small background, my son is roughly three and a half. He sleeps in his bed and I sleep on a trundle on the floor next to his bed. Mom currently spends her nights with the 9 month old. I sleep in his room with him because he’s got some anxiety issues (ped legit told us she would diagnose him with...

We had a party yesterday for our son's 3rd birthday. One of the other mums sent the following texts to my wife last night...and I'm still a blubbering mess this morning... "Such a fantastic party! Thank you for inviting us. And L is such a lovely, caring little man. He’s friendly and confident...

My dad (died in 17) had 3 brothers, one of which the family is almost completely gone. Every member of my uncle’s family has been arrested: parents for domestic violence/drug possession/theft/fraud, each of the 3 children for either theft/drug possession/possession with intent. The mother and...

“…Because people are asking me stupid questions while I try to soothe him” Any other stupid questions that really get annoying?

I was a pro musician and then music teacher until I took family leave in 2018 when NY introduced the FMLA - 8 weeks off from work when having a new child. My boss didn’t renew my contract. I haven’t played a gig in years. Today as I was pushing my 9 month old in the stroller after picking up...

2 year old requested that her older sister put her down. We obliged just to see. She got her in a diaper and pajamas. Read books. Sang her songs. Covered her with a blanket. Turned the lights off and shut the door. I don’t know what I’ll do with all this extra time gained.

I’m close to forty and I have a friend who I’ve sort of adopted as my dad (he’s in his mid-60’s). I live far from my family, and don’t have much contact with them anyway, so it’s nice to have that father figure in my life. He’s the guy who I go to when I am dealing with life/business/parenting...

So my 8yr old son walks over to my wife giggling about what he has just seen on Roblox and repeats it, saying “I re n**rs” and my wife gasps, scaring him- and I am surprised as well. This of course surprised him, too, because he didn’t know what he was saying. This world sucks. He thought...