I swear my 10yo has developed a physical reaction to my jokes. It's like he can sense them coming. Even the good ones get eye rolls. Am I just bad at timing or is this part of the contract of being a dad?
So my 10-year-old comes home asking why the Hendersons are filling their hot tub in the backyard at 9pm. I guess he was being nosy looking over the fence. Had this whole conversation about privacy and minding our own business while internally wondering the same thing. Ended up being a surprisingly g...
I make $75k gross. After taxes ($15k), my wife's full-time daycare costs ($21k), and commuting/lunch out ($4k), my actual take-home is... basically nothing. So technically I work full-time to break even. Which sounds bonkers when I type it out. Wife thinks I should stay home but we'd lose my benefit...
Looking for someone who specializes in dad anxiety/stress. Ideally someone who gets the specific pressure of being the "breadwinner" type role while also wanting to be present at home. Insurance is Aetna if that matters. Any recommendations from folks in the PNW? Or even just advice on how to find a...
Seriously. My house is not clean. My car has a thousand snack crumbs. I'm wearing the same 3 shirts on rotation. But my kids are thriving and I'm not stressed all the time. Used to be the guy who had to have everything perfect and organized. Now I'm just trying to keep everyone alive and happy. Game...
Quick celebration post because I need to document this before I jinx it: our 6 month old slept through the entire night. All of it. No dream feed, no 3am wake up, nothing. She went down at 7:45pm and didn't wake until 6:30am. I honestly don't know what changed. We started putting her down more cons...
Not an ad or whatever but genuinely surprised by how much I'm using it. Has specific meditations for parents/stress and some are literally like 5 minutes so I can do them during my commute. $70/year seems expensive until you realize you're paying for mental health and I'll spend that on coffee in 2 ...
She lets the kids stay up til 10pm on school nights and eat cereal for lunch. CEREAL FOR LUNCH. Then Monday morning rolls around and they're absolute demons because they're sleep deprived. I have them on a strict bedtime (8:30), they eat real meals, and they're thriving. But apparently I'm being a ...
My 9yo and 7yo were fighting about a toy for literally 20 minutes this morning and I genuinely lost patience. Sent them to their rooms. Now I feel guilty all day like I'm a bad dad because I got frustrated. But like... I'm human? Parents are allowed to get frustrated, right? Or am I supposed to stay...
Had my first kid last year and I gotta say, nothing prepared me for how much better everything got. Like yeah, the sleepless nights are real and my career took a hit because I actually want to be present now, but watching my son figure out how the world works? Seeing my wife become a mom? That's the...
Started buying used furniture and reselling it for extra cash. Making like $200-300/month on 5-6 hours of work. Question: does anyone else do this? Trying to figure out if I should scale it up or if that's just asking for stress I don't need. Currently got 2 kids (5 and 8) and a full-time job.
Planning to take the kids (6, 9, 11) to Tahoe next summer and want to get them into snorkeling. Don't want to spend a fortune on stuff they might hate. Any decent starter snorkel sets that aren't junk? And should I try it in a pool first or just go for it?
My son won't stop talking about T-Rex vs Triceratops. Like, he's legitimately trying to correct me on pronunciation of "Parasaurolophus" and I had to Google it to verify he was right. How long does this phase usually last? Asking because my wife bought him a $60 dinosaur encyclopedia and I'm wonderi...
Real talk, I'm struggling here. My buddies want me to join their volleyball league again and I said yes thinking it would be fine but now I'm looking at the schedule and my daughter has soccer practice 2 of those nights and I just... how do you guys do this? I want to be present with my kids but I a...
Okay this is driving me crazy. I took my kids (7, 9, 12) to what I thought was a "easy" trail at Mount Tamalpais last weekend. It was like 3 miles round trip, mostly flat. They complained literally the entire time. "Are we done yet?" "My legs hurt" "This is boring." We got some nice views but I felt...