My wife gave birth to our son two months ago. He's kind of a blob - he doesn't do much but lie there, eat, poop, and occasionally barf. This is the wonder time of having a kid - before he's a lunatic toddler racing around the house and drawing on the walls with magic markers, or a rebellious teen mixed up in drugs, sending nude photos of himself over the internet, or robbing senior citizens.
So far, parenting's pretty easy. A lot of people will tell you that the worst part of this time in a baby's life is the sleep deprivation. But they're wrong.
The worst part of being a parent is the fact that in all your favorite music and movies from your youth, you've suddenly gone from being the protagonist to the antagonist. Yep, I've crossed over and now that I'm a dad, I'm officially the bad guy.
But, on the plus side, now that I have a kid, it does give me license to yell at people more often. It's the catch all excuse - "Hey, come on! I got a kid here!" will stops everyone in their tracks. Someone walking a dog and they don't pick up dog poop? "I got a kid here - come on!" Someone cuts me off in traffic, I can honk and yell and then say "Come on, I got a kid here!"
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