It is official, I am finally willing to call it - I am a competent father. Hooray for me. I am pretty sure I can look after the kids without either of them being in either grave physical, emotional or developmental danger.
Being frank they have probably never been at much risk of any of these things, but now I am certain of it. It is all to do with Wife’s recent return to work a couple of days a week. This has meant I have had to pick the kids up, get them to physie, go shopping, get them dinner, bathed and dressed for bed all by my lonesome.
Sure this isn’t a huge feat - but I should stress I am doing this without any adult supervision whatsoever! And believe me when I tell you I am used to living my life under STRICT adult supervision.
This was confirmed today when Little Miss was sick and I took the day off work to look after her. So I had to take Usurper to daycare, drop her off (with Little miss in tow because at first she demanded to go too, then decided she wanted to come home), go home wash all the vomited on sheets (after sleeping in the bed with Little Miss most the night), do some more general cleaning, administer the medication, pick up the youngest at the end of the day, cook dinner, do baths etc.
Ok, nothing Earth shattering, but the point is I did it, did it easily, did it without fuss and DID IT WITHOUT ADULT SUPERVISION…………
Which leads me to one conclusion - maybe I AM the adult supervision these days?
(Wife is probably thinking- finally, it only took 40 f’ing years!)
Haha…
Actually I could never have doubted that you could do it. I suppose things are just done a little differently than the other adult
but things get done nonetheless.
Well done!
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You know you’re a keeper. And a great role model to our girls, in that they too will expect nothing less from their own partners in the future.
However never mention that you found it easy. It’s not and you know it isn’t!
ETA it’s hissychick here, not toddlerdaddy. I can’t seem to log in as myself. Then again you’ve probably done that for a reason LOL
GOOD FOR YOU ! I doubt my hubby would have been able to do it without a few grumbles and a few phone calls asking me where is what !
One step…or should I say day at a time….
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I too am a toddler-dad. I thank god for my wife because I’ve come to realize that women have an innate sense of maintaining the ‘toddler-verse’ coherant. Don’t get me wrong, I pitch in and babysit quite a bit and watch our little one about 50% of the time, but there are situations that get me flumbergasted ( my DSeuss word for the day ). You know the ones. Wife needs to go to a business meeting at night. So you’ll just take the toddler to dinner. Oh, wait, you forgot the sippy cup. Don’t worry she won’t spill the milk…or cry when you won’t give her a chip with the hot salsa. Oh is that diarahea I smell right when the food gets placed on the table…Jeesh…Mommy!!!!
LOL.