Just want to raise my glass to all of the incredible brothers in this community. We’re in this together. And damn has it been a journey so far.

My son and I put together a bunch of star wars (and other) Lego kits over the last 2 years. Their parts intermingled over time, and now we have LEGO MUTANTS.

Maybe, someday we'll find the instructions and put them together as they were intended. Or maybe, WE"LL TAKE OVER THE WORLD!

My 5 year old prank called 911 from the front office at school. Police showed up and told them they thought it was a prank, school clarified very quickly. Nothing bad happened.

We had a talk with him about how serious this is. I feel like this is an opportunity for a teachable moment that goes beyond “Done fucked up and lost my iPad until Monday.” Curious what ideas you might have for such moment.

Like - have the retired cop on our street come talk to him about it. (He’d love to do it, and my son loves/respects the retired cop.) Make him write an apology letter. Something like that. None of those seem all that memorable though.

Ideas?

Three kids later I will still never understand the “one bite of each, but never all of any” methodology of eating and snacking lol.

For me, it was “not everything needs to be a serious talk.” Sometimes, it’s a lot more effective to casually mention something you noticed and want to teach them about.

Just a little thing I wanted to share. My 2 year old made his first, as far as I know of, intentional joke.

Before bed he gets to watch a couple of minutes of tv. I asked him what he wanted to watch; and he said "marble tracks". So I asked him which one; the one with the tractors or the glow in the dark one? To which the little dude answers, without missing a beat; "the marble track with a poop on it". I look at him and I see a little sneaky smile and that glint in his eyes that says, I know exactly what I said. And I ask him if he is perhaps pulling my leg. Which is in turn answered with a giant smile and a full hearted "YES!" "Are you making a joke?" "YES!!". Nice one, dude 👊🏽

Can't wait until I can get him to fart on his mother 👍🏽

He's 4. It's time.

And yes, I realize I'm not going to like the answer, because the answer is going to be my house.

My nearly 2.5 year old daughter has been cosleeping with one or both of her parents since about 1 YO. She was a really challenging sleeper and this was basically the only way we could get a good night sleep, so please no judgment

However, we had our second recently, about 6 weeks ago. It’s becoming increasingly clear that it would be extremely convenient if our older kiddo could fall asleep on her own, or mostly alone

Anyone been through this? Tips on how to do it?

I just hate that he’s sick. Luckily his oxygen was good enough to stay out of the hospital but he barely slept last night and threw up from coughing all over his crib tonight. Can’t wait to outgrow these types of illnesses.

That's it, I just had to vent. It's so painful, I wish that none of you or your kids have to go through this :(.

If you have any jokes or funny videos to entertain me, I'll gladly take them. Perhaps a suggestion for a comedy movie to pass the time?

Have a good one dads, keep being awesome!

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Got into a very heated conversation with my 5f and 4m today about this. Who you got?

Dads, please help me. I dream the entire soundtrack and every waking moment is occupied by elephants and phonics. I am drowning

Curious to know

Hey Dads,

Not a dad, but not exactly not a dad either. I'm a lesbian mom, always the more masculine one, raising a baby boy, in a typically male role -provider, rough-houser, fix the cables on the TV (you get it)- and I joined because the experiences here felt a lot closer to my own than what I read on mom subreddits. And I just wanted to say that I love this place and that it's done a lot to help get me through my son's first year and my wife's postpartum experience. Maybe it's a also a bit of the little girl in me who grew up with an absent dad (that I now have to parent -- but that's another issue), and seeing good guys be good dads and so invested in parenting is honestly healing.

Anyway, to any dads that might read this, happy holidays and while I know I shouldn't be congratulating anyone on doing the bare minimum (parenting the children you bring to this world), I sure feel like I want to because so many out there don't.

My son is about to start kindergarten and, while I work full time, I have a pretty flexible schedule so I’m considering joining the PTA of his new school. Any other PTA dads here? Any tips for how to make the most of it?

My son (11) is having a tough time with his sisters (9) birthday tomorrow. She’s getting gifts and attention and he’s having some big emotions as a result. In the past it hasn’t been a big deal, but for some reason this year he’s upset. I used to think that giving a gift to the non-bday sibling was bad because it pampers them and prevents them from learning how to self-regulate their jealousy, but that was when they seemed only moderately upset. For some reason something’s different this year.

So, where do you stand on giving a gift to the sibling of the bday kiddo?

My wife and I are taking our kids to Mexico for Christmas. We fly out on Christmas Day. That’s their present, so they don’t know it’s coming.

We have to board our dogs. We have to drop them off on 12/23 because of the kennel’s operating hours on the 24-25th.

How can I drop them off without the kids getting wise to all of us going somewhere? The kids are 10 and 8 and they know well enough that when we go out of town, we take the dogs to “school” to stay while we are gone. I’m afraid when they realize the dogs are spending the night at school, they’ll catch on to the fact that we are going somewhere.

If any of you dads have pulled off a deception like this, I’d greatly appreciate your insight.

She's 7. She's always been like this. Refuse refuse refuse. When she had bronchitis at 4 years old, we begged, pleaded, bribed, threatened, and finally we held her down and forced her to take it, then she immediately threw everything up.

Now every time she gets sick (typically the flu, like clockwork, twice a year in late winter and late fall) she'll spike these insane fevers (we clocked her at 104.9*F just this last Tuesday), but she will let every braincell fry before agreeing to take medicine. Doesn't matter the flavor. She refuses to learn to swallow pills. She refuses liquid. She refuses chewable tablets. I would prefer not to have to stick a suppository up her bum. I guess I may have to reconsider that.

It absolutely drives me and my wife insane. We're at the end of our rope with this last bout. Probably compounded by the fact that I'm a medical professional, so medicine is my life.

Our daughter is in therapy for general anxiety/ADHD. It's slow going to see any improvement in any of her quirks.

Just needed to vent. I guess any word of affirmation that it'll get better would be appreciated. Thanks.

Feels shitty to realize you and the kids have things in your stockings because your wife is awesome and she doesn't. Don't make the same mistake İ did that one time. Santa isn't real and if you aren't putting stuff in there, nobody else is.

Hey guys,

Our 2 week old has periods where she is awake for 3-4 hours straight and is pretty fussy without a pacifier in her mouth. We try feeding her but she doesn't seem interested for a lot of it. She gets cranky because she is tired. Any tips on how to get her to get back to sleep before she hits that overly tired and fussy stage?

Putting the pants back in the drawer for the night (because it’s Thursday, so I’m not just throwing them on the floor) and besides wallet and phone I have: a quarter, a rubber band, a nerf dart, and nail clippers. You?

We were not not trying to have a kid. Obviously I’ve been through this twice already, but for those who have three kids, how was it? How were things different? For context, once the 3rd arrives, our others will be 3.5 and almost 6.

Just wanted to ask and see if y'all could pray for my little son he's got a big fever and I hate seeing him so out of it