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- cls0
Im a father of two kids, and just got back from vegas with 18hr trip and 9hr time difference in my system, then one of my kids kept me awake for 5 hrs last night. Now i am at work and feeling anything but 'cool'. Other then that i have no problems with being a father.
- blaw0
My son thinks I'm cool as hell and he's got the only vote that matters on that front.
I'm with Chossy: Build shit, break shit, blow things up, check things out. There's a lot of fun to be had.
- MisterMonk0
love hot daddy and sons action
- Gucci0
do you wear bad sweaters now or something?
- monoboy0
Try entertaining a 2 year old at 6am with a hangover, it'll knock any kind of indulgence on the head believe me. It changes everything.
- But in a good way.monoboy
- Yup. Pretty much stopped drinking precisely because of this. Now he's a little older don't like drinking anyway.JerseyRaindog
- monoboy0
^ I should probably point out that it was me with the hangover, not the 2 year old.
- mikotondria30
Yes, you only really try to combine taking care of kids and having a hangover once - they just don't care..
"Daddy's got a really bad headache, why don't we just sit here really still and grip the sides of our head, breathing shallow and occaisionally darting off the to toilet to dry heave ?"
"Oh how kind, you knew that when I'd finished spitting stringy green bile I'd want to watch Dora the fucking Explorer with the volume up really loud.."
What's that ?
Of course I'll lurch round the kitchen desperately cobbling together a bowl of cinnamon oatmeal, theres nothing I'd like more than great foaming lungfulls of cinnamon right now, and the noise of the microwave ? Just music to my ears..
Oh and you've opened the curtains, how kind...
ok, daddy's going to have a little sleep again now... I think elmo-bear wants to go night-night too, lets just turn him off....
ok - ok, we'll leave him on - please don't make that noise..
No, leave daddy's phone alone, don't make it make those sounds - Im serious...Repeat for what can subjectively seem like 10 years...
- obviously "Dora the fucking Explorer" is pronounced "Dora The Explorer"...mikotondria3
- Khurram0
i'd be all like - daddy is sleeping, disturb him and get the living shit kicked out of you.
obviously why there are court injunctions against me ever reproducing.
- moth0
I'm with you here. Fuck cool. But also - really - Kids are like drugs. Not fun to talk about unless you have them.
- epigraph0
Our closest couple friends always bring up their pets when we talk about our kids. I indulge them but, really, there is no comparison.
- Pets tend to shit outsidethebottlerocket
- It's the only frame of reference we have...skwiotsmith
- 'we' as in pet owners without kids.skwiotsmith
- Greedo0
At some point you'll realize that the 'cool and hip' lifestyle is nothing but shallow hedonism that leads nowhere, and you'll be able to tell yourself that when you're scraping shit off your baby's back.
- mistermik0
dads are great.
- designbot0
Yes, being a father ( 2nd little one on the way for me) changes you in some ways to make more sensible decisions, but it certainly does not make you "uncool" whatever that even means. There are so many amazing things that come along with being a parent, that I just don't think people without kids can possibly understand. They may think it's lame that you don't want to go out and get waisted or to the club or whatever but that's called being a good parent, which def doesn't make you not cool anymore. Anyways I think it's inevitable that some people will look at you this way, but you probably have changed your opinion about them too eh? (like thinking to yourself they have no clue :)
For me I have found myself to be a bit more safe when making risky decisions, but only because I don't want my kids growing up without a father.
- yeh, hands up for all the self-confessed Safety Monitors out there..mikotondria3
- sputnik20
it's short-sighted ignorance - there's truly nothing cooler than a great dad, and you don't have to change yourself to be one.
- hallelujah0
not worth the 30 seconds it would take to think about
- boobs0
Once you're a Dad, what do you need to be cool for?