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Depends. My friends without kids can be close to useless when we talk about parenting stuff.

Posted by TFox Feb 6 '09, 12:53

And things I thought I was right about before I became a husband and dad, well, I totally wasn't.

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I agree. Weird thing for me right now is that I have to deal with that sometimes with my fiance. - pmb Feb 6, 13:03
There's no way to explain what that little person does to you. - Amy Feb 6, 13:00 9
- Can you demonstrate on the doll? -- nm - oblique, eighth best slackertalker Feb 6, 13:03
- Did I ever tell you the time I let my daughter roll off the changing counter? - amoxy Feb 6, 13:03 7
  - mine went head 1st off some stairs in her walker after I stupidly left the garage door open -- nm - Epiphany Feb 6, 13:07 1
    - My parents once left my little sister in her baby carrier -- on a picnic table at a rest area. -- nm - loosilu Feb 6, 13:08
  - I pulled my daughters elbow out of it's socket doing that "swing between mommy and daddy thing" - oblique, eighth best slackertalker Feb 6, 13:04 1
    - Or the time I closed the backdoor of the MiniVan on my son's head - amoxy Feb 6, 13:06
  - Roll? Jacen suicide bombed off, head first. - TFox Feb 6, 13:04 2
    - Logan, head first slide down the stairs, caught before the bottom step. -- nm - Amy Feb 6, 13:04 1
      - Yep, Jacen did a half one like that, that SheFox has banned me from ever discussing, because she didn't see it. -- nm - TFox Feb 6, 13:05
from my perspective, all the better for people who haven't gone through these experiences to join in the discussions then -- nm - Roger More Feb 6, 12:58 2
- word to mothereffing big bird. -- nm - TFox Feb 6, 12:59 1
  - WTF does Carol on Top Chef have to do with this? - Trish Feb 6, 13:02
i don't have kids but I can recognize bad parenting when I see it -- nm - redmond Feb 6, 12:57 7
- If you had seen my behavior with my son this past week, you might have called it bad parenting - amoxy Feb 6, 13:00 5
  - see - i kind of relate this to the marriage thing, in my eyes - Guy Feb 6, 13:05 3
    - think of it more like, for three years of a child's life (and three years that he can remember, not the first three), his father was completely - Andie Feb 6, 13:10 1
      - also - whether that man is a perfect husband now isn't the point, the point is he screwed up, lied, cheated, and she can't get past it. which most of - Andie Feb 6, 13:12
    - No, but the son would be well within his rights to tell dad to go shit in a hat. - TFox Feb 6, 13:07
  - is that before or after you got married? -- nm - redmond Feb 6, 13:02
- Yes, but there are levels. Things are not always as obvious as they seem frm a an outside perspective. -- nm - Subversive - off to Ottawa Feb 6, 12:59
Agreed, once you have kids, it does change - amoxy Feb 6, 12:57
Indeed. -- nm - Subversive - off to Ottawa Feb 6, 12:54 1
- all I said was that that much lighter fluid *probably* wouldn't cause permanent blindness. -- nm - Reagen Feb 6, 12:56

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