By | April 12th, 2007 at 9:28 am
I’m totally going about this stay-at-home dad business the wrong way. Apparently instead of shopping for dinner and cleaning the kitchen and quelling tantrums and mastering that $#@! sippy cup and passing on language and praying to dear lord sweet jebus for nap time, I should be watching as many sports programs (matches? meets?) as possible, finding new hobbies, like surfing and building rocking chairs, and not worrying about “wasting” that college degree.
Uh huh.
This particular vision of the at-home parenting lifestyle is by a Stanford college student who penned a column – “It’s sad we don’t consider becoming a SAHD” — about all the glories and free time at-home dads have suddenly wandered into.
I’m not going to rip apart this poor, deluded lad — despite the gravy boat of opportunities:
“Aren
Nice
Sorry
interesting
Cool.
Cool…
Daddy Blogger Doodaddy has a thought-provoking post about the difficulties of creating a play group and
Careful airwick. Evidently SAHDs are a much more sensitive lot than I ever knew. There is no laughter in Dadville tonight.
And don’t even get us started on calling one of the brotherhood Mr. Mom…
umm … did any one stop to read some of this guy’s other columns? Perhaps, just perhaps … this column was meant as humor … read that way, the column is quite enjoyable! The guy can write quite well.
Bear with me — or is it bare? I can’t never remember — but I am two “choking hazards” into Strollerderby’s
As a young black SAH dad with a 40k MBA degree, i really needed to read this tonite. thanx everyboby
People think/say that about stay at home moms all the time. My husband and I made a joke of it and talk about how I sit around and eat bon bons all day, but seriously, raising a new human being to be a good independent grown up person some day is hard work! I wish people thought about it before they make their flip little comments about stay at homes, regardless of whether it is a dad or a mom.
“Watchin mah stories” — classic.
And yeah, a 90-minue ride with a toddler — regularly? — who do these people think we are?
I remember when I told one of my friends I was becoming a SAHD. His reply? “Cool! You can play video games all day long!”
Idiot.
As a work-at-home mom, I get the same crap. all. the. time. My extended family is genuinely mystified that I don’t have time to visit Grandma for hours every day, I have had people assume I get to nap when she does (oh, would that be so) and I just got a major all-expenses-paid guilt trip from a friend because I haven’t been reguarly saddling up my toddler for the 90-minute drive to her house to help her after surgery.
Of course, I remember going to the library before my dauuhter was born and loading up because “I’ll have SO much time to read!”
HAHAHAHAHA.
That’s a joke in our house too, except instead of Oprah, I’ve been watchin’ mah stories!
That poor, deluded fool. It’s true that college rots your brain. A couple of months of SAH parenting and he’ll forget he even HAS a degree.
“Some people really think I sit on the couch and watch Oprah all day.”
This is a running joke in my house.
Mr-B: So, what did you do today?
Me: Sat around watching Oprah and eating frosting out of the can.
Mr-B: Again?
Just wait until that guy actually HAS kids. Once he’s been barfed on six times a day, sings Twinkle Twinkle Little Star until he swears *he’s* going to barf, and realizes it’s been 6 months since he sat down with Sports Illustrated, he’ll see how naive (stupid?) he was.
As a SAHM, I hear plenty too about my choice to stay home. Some people really think I sit on the couch and watch Oprah all day.