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Thursday Thinkers: The Ever-Learning Dad, 1

Fatherhood can have many strange side effects, not the least of which seems to be the inclination to suddenly learn all those little things one has been putting off. When the realization final hits home that there is a little mind to shape — and speaking here completely from anecdotal experience only — the (apparently) bigger mind in one’s own skull is suddenly awash in feelings of inadequacy and ineptitude. All those things a dad is supposed to know — and until we’re teenagers it seems as though dad’s are nothing short of omniscient beings who know just about everything — don’t seem to be as easily accessible in the memory as my gut-feeling implies should be. By this point in my life I am perfectly aware that we fathers are mere humans, but that knowledge hardly eases the impression that I should have been trying to learn just a little bit more over the past thirty-some years. So, in the spare moments that fatherhood allows, what’s a guy to learn?

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Full text from October 9, 2008 by Brad
Filed as: Critical Thought Toolkit, Reasoned Education, Skepdad thoughts

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skepdad’s “free time” the second

After a rather sleepless night I required this, a gelatinous goo of a blog entry, to get my brain functioning again. I was pulled from sleep numerous times by a crying kid. USUALLY she sleeps through the night. USUALLY the wife insists that she be the one to manage the occasional wake-ups. USUALLY she insists that it’s my job to get a good nights sleep so I am awake to go to work and earn money for paying bills and such. But the girl screamed for FOUR hours last night and so eventually I crawled out of bed and went to sit on the floor beside my frustrated wife and a screaming daughter for no other purpose than moral support. Why was she screaming? I suppose the answer will remain locked in her little noggin never to be known. But that doesn’t stop the sporadic external analysis from being shared everywhere we tell such tales.

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Full text from April 18, 2008 by Brad
Filed as: Skepdad thoughts

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