chicagodads

My fellow dads,

Have we seen this report from Parenting (dot) com on how we make our wives angry (shorter version here)? Do we even know how to react to it?

Basically, it’s about how half of mothers with young children get angry on a weekly basis with their spouses because we do not keep track of basic things like the child’s social security number, or where his insurance card is, or what to bring for the parent-teacher mixer, etc. As for the other half, they are probably single. No, I’m sure they’re wonderful.

But I’ll just be on the level in this:

1. It doesn’t strike me as being very scientific.
2. So what?

I’m looking through this list and I’m checking off where I’ve done some wrong. And there’s quite a few spots, to be honest. Even though I’m our child’s primary care-giver, even though I know her diet and sleep patterns best, I still feel like, when I can, I turn it off around the child. In other words, if my wife and I were both out with the child, she would be the one worrying about the particulars, while I would rather spend the time in a good book (a rare luxury these days, btw).

Maybe we should make the sacrifice and (cue Simpson’s reference), “Think of the Children! Will somebody Please think of the children?!”

Apparently, my buddy G-Rod (whose face emblazons the top of this blog at the moment of writing. Along with, of course, his twin) just finished giving his testimony at his own impeachment hearings. I’d like to give him a moment of silence now in deference to his solemn, sober and intelligent self-defense, but, um, Missy Elliot’s “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” is playing now. I can’t interrupt this for that.

More on this to come tomorrow. Later today, I’d like to concentrate on Ron “Lack of Hubris” Huberman’s (currently head of Chicago Transit Authority) appointment to become CPS chief.