<p><a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/photos/apr2007/picture14633.aspx" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.babble.com/CS/photos/apr2007/images/14633/300x300.aspx" align="right" border="0" height="166" hspace="4" width="166"></a>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. </p><p>Uh huh.</p>This particular vision of the at-home parenting lifestyle is by a Stanford college student who penned a column --<a href="http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2007/4/11/theIndiaTypistItsSadWeDontConsiderBeingASahd"> "It's sad we don't consider becoming a SAHD"</a> -- about all the glories and free time at-home dads have suddenly wandered into.<br><br>I'm not going to <a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2007/04/05/kids-need-discipline-says-college-parenting-guru.aspx">rip apart</a> this poor, deluded lad -- despite the gravy boat of opportunities: