I take care of my daughter so I'm less of a man?

Listen I work a lot but my main goal is the keep my family happy and help it prosper. Some people want the man to work 7 days and have some or little interaction with the kids and leave all children duties to the wife. I have no issue with this at all but I work and take of my daughter the majority of the time. So I'm less of a man because I'm home more and I make the doctors appointments? It is 2011. Who cares which parent does what? I grew up mostly in a single parent household so you want to say that I am overcompensating then fine but don't you dare say I am less of anything because I take care of my daughter. The men who aren't the bread winners and stay home are just as strong as the women that do so do we take away their man card? When one person in the family has a chance to move forward the sacrifice is for the other person to take a step back and support in any way they can. The thing is I don't look at spending more time with my little girl as a sacrifice. It is what it is but it doesn't make me less how about you look at it this way. It makes me more.

Your kid will get dropkicked......

Listen, I understand that being a parent is hard and not all kids are the same but when that kid has an affect on my child then there is a problem. So I dropped off my daughter at the day care and all seemed good as normal as the other kids were there playing. Suddenly the oldest boy by a year older than my daughter got the other little boy a couple of months younger than my daughter and approached her in an aggressive manner. My little girl is taller so she just looked at them like "whatever". So this little boy just kept flapping his gums at my daughter so I yelled for them to break it up. He stopped. So the day care provider says help her with her coat, so he walks over and starts yapping his gums again in a threatening manner so he got a beating for it but I was about to yank that kid up. Kids will be kids I get that, but I also believe in stopping bad behavior before it gets to certain level and it could be stopped. His parents are short so it could be the "Napoleon Complex" or something. Either way when it comes to my kid just don't do it.

Dear Radio

The radio stations cater to the audience so I guess I need to blame us instead of the head of the radio station but they can certainly do better. I can't listen to the radio anymore with my daughter in the car. It's horrible. Let's see when I turn on the radio I get "Make it rain trick", "No Hands" and "Put it down" which all have to do with strip club women or just certain women in general. Not only the song titles but the words that are played on the radio. Ass is acceptable not only in the song but the DJ uses it in regular conversations. The "f" word isn't totally blanked out either and you can hear the "fah" sound. Let's not even get in the phrases that are used and played by the radio stations. We all know the meaning and it is so blatant that it is offensive. I don't want my little girl saying "I'm gonna make it thunderstorm." I am all for freedom of speech, I agree with it one hundred percent but the FCC needs to step in and regulate this garbage because it will slowly go down hill and it will be "deuces" to all the stations. You just lost me for life.

Didn't I say no?

Discipline is a touchy subject for parents. Many different ways to get the point across. Now I was spanked maybe 4 times in my life and the last one was when I was 5 years old. Ahhhh, the life, I know I was the youngest so maybe they were tired by then but I was a good kid. Really, I was. The punishment that worked for me was sending me to the corner to look at the wall while everyone was having a grand ole time. Not sitting but standing for the whole time. I hated it with a passion. Right now, I may do a little hand smack but that's it, I try and make it more mental like taking things away from her or sitting her down away from what is going on. It seems to work so far. I don't look down on other who use other methods. Maybe things change when she is older but it isn't me. The good thing is she never acts up in public (knocking on wood) and really doesn't at home, the issue is she doesn't sit still and I have to constantly challenge her. So when the makers go from the writing pad to the wall "Houston we have a problem."

Put the poop down...

Put the poop down. Now having a child presents its challenges when it comes to germs. Putting things in their mouth, like everything they see and reaching into the diaper. Arrrrgggghhhhh. Holy cow. I mean she had the right idea and all but I mean can we actually not touch the stuff in there. It was something out of a comedy except there wasn't laughter from my part, more like panic. All I saw running from the bathroom was the baby with her pants and pull up around her ankles. No people she was in a dead sprint. Then she returned to the bathroom. That's when I saw what was going on and her hands contained what was supposed to be in the diaper. So I am guessing it happened in the room and from there she decided to take in and manually dispose of it. Now the one positive is that she put in the right place but her methods need some fine tuning.