I think my girlfriend might be pregnant

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I was just starting to feel a bit more confident and mature about this venture. I went with my family on our annual new year's tradition to go to the old movie theatre to watch an old musical.



The only thing of note that happened this evening was that I spilled gallons of orange juice all over the cinema floor. I don't know what they hated me for more, having made the floor sticky or my attempts to clean it during the show. I tried to keep it quite but GF announced it to everyone in a loud whisper. Grandpa repeated the announcement but he didn't whisper. He repeated it again. And again. And again.


They all saw me as an immature childish piece of s**t. An encumbrance. A liability. How am I supposed to be a father when I'm nothing more than a child? (And a substandard child at that).

This has no bearing upon your fitness to be a father.

I guess. Tomorrow I'll start some of the tasks I've been procrastinating. Time to become responsible.

I am childlike. I enjoy playing with my children (the active games, not the role playing). I am still a Parent (not their friend as the cliché goes). At a low moment, before kids, I asked my therapist how in the heck I was going to parent; I felt completely unfit. She said I'd do what I had to do. She was right. I rose to the occasion. It's an effort to make my children my Special Interest, but I do and am glad for the effort. Wishing it's the similar for you: you will do what you have to do. What a perfect parenting example you just gave: spilling and cleaning up gallons of orange juice... "well, Junior, you know when I was … two years younger... I did near the exact same thing … in a movie theatre! … with great-grandpa kibitzing around … and I lived to tell you this story... you will live too..."

Make sure your kid under the age of 3-4 doesn’t run off.

Older, too—but by later preschool age, they know not to run into the street.

I would have sucked as a parent at the beginning ..but I would have learned from my bad decisions.

I would read books, and listen to other parents—especially if they do not present their way of raising kids as the “only way.”

Of course I wouldn’t slavishly follow advice from other parents.

Every kid is different....absolutely. I am a case in point.

You had a sense of how you wanted to raise your kid, based on your own experience and your moral values.

There are people who don’t really have that “conception,” and need input from those more experienced. The key is to sift the charlatan advice from the useful advice.

"Pregnant" misspellings (funny):