Annoying Dads

[Anonymous]

Fair is fair. While I personally believe most human beings are annoying at times, especially before I've had my coffee, you know there are plenty of dads out there who do annoying things too. Let's vent!

Me first:
How about Dads who zone out when they're supposed to be watching the kids and you come home to find 'Jimmy' has a mohawk and he swears he was watching every single moment and 'Jimmy' must have done it before I left for my book club.

[Anonymous]

My husband is a wonderful father, but it does annoy me that whenever we go to a playgroup or dinner where other Dads are present, the men all gather together and talk about work or sports or whatever while the mothers are left to chase after the kids. Sometimes we'd like to be able to sit and chat, too!

[Anonymous]

Oh, do we really have to start another one of these?

[Anonymous]

fathers that bring child to the park and have no business taking care of a child b/c the whole time they are there, all the mothers are saving the child from danger, while the father has his finger up his ass. Are you stupid or blind. You have to put the paper down and take care of your child.

[Anonymous]

PP. Tongue in cheek. These things are meant to be funny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:fathers that bring child to the park and have no business taking care of a child b/c the whole time they are there, all the mothers are saving the child from danger, while the father has his finger up his ass. Are you stupid or blind. You have to put the paper down and take care of your child.

Poster. Leave my Brother alone! lol. He's doing the best he can. Yeah.. my SIL complains about this all the time.

[Anonymous]

my husband stayed home with our first for a few hours a day 1x a week for about 5 months, he now tells every one that will listen that he was a sahd, how hard it is blah blah blah, I just want to tell him to shut up, but would not want to hurt the male ego. did such a great job. hehhee

[Anonymous]

How about a Dad who talks about when 'we' had the baby and how hard 'our' delivery was. I didn't see an 10 lb alien popping out of your Vajaja!

[Anonymous]

Dads who think they are great at being dads because they are great at playing with the baby, toddler or child ...

but do none of the crap that childrearing involves.

Dads who undermine their spouses.

[Anonymous]

boy-I guess mine isn't special..........

hahahaha

[Anonymous]

How about a Dad who impregnates his wife with another child after she spends 5 years complaining to everyone who will listen that he's a selfish, lazy, an inattentive Dad. Come on guys, tie it in a knot.

[Anonymous]

Dads who are hard on them doring sports games. A went to my nephews basketball game He's 8 yrs old) and his friend is on his team. Well..his coach is the dad of his friend. I could see him screaming at his son and telling him he was making stupid plays. He would sit him out if he was not playing well, for punishment. I wanted to cry for the kid. I know all about being pressured with my athletics and I literally quit just because it got to be no fun.

[Anonymous]

Dads who can't follow the list or my instructions and therefore make my life much harder than it needs to be (I work from home full time and take care of DC 3 of those days - work knows and is fine with it and I love spending the time with my baby, but it is still really hard!)

So anyway, when DH asks me what I want from the grocery store and I say freezer bags, I mean freezer bags. Not storage bags. Freezer bags. Because I am making something that needs to be frozen. And when I ask for 3 cans of tuna fish, I do not mean come home with a single, giant feed-45-people can.

Yes, I write it down for him. No, it does not matter.

Or when dad is so busy watching the game that when I ask him if the car is packed and he got the pack n play before we go away for the night, only to get there and OOOPS!

Or the next weekend when we went away again he got the pack n play BUT NOT THE INSERT THAT GOES ON THE BOTTOM FOR BABY TO SLEEP ON. omg, i could have killed him.

And the best? True story (but gross) -
When the toilet was backed up and I asked him if he could try plunging it and HE FLUSHED IT. Made my problem 500 times worse because now it was ALL OVER THE FLOOR. Please. If you don't know how to use a plunger, tell me that BEFORE YOU FLUSH THE TOILET and then look at me with doe-eyes saying "but i thought it would go down'? I literally stood in the bathroom, mop in hand, and cried. He did come clean up the mess though.

All that being said, my DH is GREAT with our baby (of course, he can't find the baby motrin in the medicine cabinet right in front of him when I am hollering from the changing table with a therm up baby's butt......) But he gets up at night to comfort him, gives him baths, plays with him, feeds him (he can't figure out how to make the food yet, but thats ok) and best of all, he gets up in the morning - EVERY morning - and takes our baby and lets me sleep for an extra hour. I love him sooooooooooo much!!!! I really do.

[Anonymous]

Dad who agreed we wouldn't bribe our child but then when he had to change ONE dirty stinky diaper, I overhead him offering DD a FAIRY PRINCESS DOLL if she would start using the potty.

[Anonymous]

PP. Maybe you should ask him to bribe you with a weekend at a luxury spa for continuing to change those stinky diapers so he doesn't have to. Just a thought.