this is a treat for you dear readers, some pictures of my kids and my pumpkins! enjoy and don’t forget to see my other post for today!
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-Justin
Tag: kids (Page 4 of 7)
First of all, I don’t set out to traumatize my kids. It just happens. Somewhere in the evil part of my brain, I kind of enjoy it. It is some kind of karmic payback for poopy diapers and screaming in the middle of the night. Truth: I love my kids and would do anything for them. Poopy diapers are just part of being a DAD.
But I can traumatize my kids in their sleep without ever leaving the couch. I like scary movies. And action movies. You know the ones with lots of shooting and or screaming. The problem with relation to the kids, is my 9 year old has nightmares from the screaming. She tells me when she goes to bed “Don’t watch any scary movies tonight”. Sometimes she doesn’t notice, sometimes she gets mad at me.
Some days I don’t watch anything and she still complains. I just keep telling them if they were alseep they wouldn’t notice. Lately I watch a lot of movies with headphones on.
So, how do you traumatize your kids, or how do you plan to? Like I said sometimes it is fun to payback the kids. You just have to remember, they are still kids. You are the parent, the guardian. You are the one who takes away the nightmares. You have to be willing to change habits to keep them comfortable.
Take care of your kids, they are the greatest thing in the world.
Justin
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Sometimes it is really interesting what happens when you give a 3 year old a camera and tell her to go to town. You get pictures of closets, fish tanks, pictures on the wall, nearly full episodes of Scooby Doo, and sometimes, Crime Scene Photos.
click photos for full size image. If you have a weak stomach, you may want to look away…
If you have any information as to the perpetrators of this horrible Barbie murder scene please let us know! I think it is hilarious what kids will take a picture of. Sometimes they come up with really great things from their shorter point of view.
Give a kid a camera, and see what they come up with. Sometimes you will be surprised what catches their interest.
Any Thoughts??? Please comment.
-Justin
PS I am working on a new stay at home dad survival guide, if there are any specific things that could be addressed let me know.
Growing up I always wanted to be like my Dad. He was strong, smart, and full of a barely restrained rage that got him through the tough times. I learned many things working around the house with him and I just didn’t get other things that he really hoped were ingrown in HIS son. Alas, in several ways I am a miserable failure in his eyes.
Not the least of which has been my decisions since I started to have kids. I have tried to finish college several times now and I am very close. It just seems like things keep getting in the way and I am left being a stay at home dad. Don’t get me wrong, I love my kids and this is a fantastic opportunity to bond with them when they are young. Think how it must (and does) irk Mr. Ex-Navy SEAL, Type A+ personality Dad.
The reasons behind the stay at home part are many and they may end up their own posts. This latest round was mostly to take care of my youngest daughter. She was diagnosed with End Stage Renal Disease or Kidney Failure just before her first birthday. They told us right then she would need extensive dialysis and eventually a kidney transplant. So, through this that and the other, (I think I will write a book about this. Ebook or real? Any thoughts?) I stayed home and shuttled her to dialysis 4 times per week for 2 years. She finally got a kidney transplant last May and is now only going to the doctor once a month so I am freed up.
That is one of the reasons I am blogging now. I am working on my writing skills, I do have a couple of ideas for books that I would like to actually sell. Maybe I can parlay my blog into the cash to do school and finish up those pesky 18 credits.
Now back to my main point, I am a stay at home dad. I am following in my mother’s footsteps and not entirely my father’s. And I don’t care. I am proud to be able to take care of the house and the kids as well as the yard and the car. I can change a water pump or a diaper with equal ease, if not equal time. I can rebuild a wall or teach my first grader how to read. I can do dishes or divide fractions with my 9 year old. I can field dress a deer or wash laundry.
I am proud to follow my mother’s example and do all of these things. I am proud to be a writer and will be more proud when I am a successful one. I know what it takes to keep the house running now, and my hat’s off to those mom’s and dad’s who stay home and do it.
Now, go do something useful!
-Justin
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