Do you ever wonder how your kids will remember you from their childhood? Will they remember the dad who loves them and is constantly humbled by their ability to learn and explore and sing and dance and experience life each day? Will they remember the dad who is excited to share this world with them [...]
Filed under: bad daddy, mental health | Tagged: anger, anxiety, depression, fatherhood | 12 Comments »
I read the headline from the Minneapolis StarTribune with horror: “‘Kill me!’ a mother begs police after a terrible act.” The story was about a 60-year-old mother who tried to kill her two 11-year-old adopted girls. According to the article, she “savagely attacked her two daughters and then stabbed herself, two months after she was [...]
Filed under: mental health, raging thoughts | Tagged: anger, depression, murder | 4 Comments »
Anyone else have something that drives you into an instant frenzy? Something that turns your Raging Dial to 11 regardless of how completely irrational it is? I do: spilled milk. Isn’t that stupid? How embarrassingly cliché. In truth, I am driven crazy by chronic inattentiveness. As I’ve said before, I am engaged in an ongoing [...]
Filed under: bad daddy | Tagged: anger, hulk, spilled milk, vomit | 8 Comments »
First the bad news: Connie has caught strep throat from Raging Mom. I am writing this post with masticated grape children’s Motrin all over my shirt. It is kind of amazing, the level of craziness that a child can employ when they are delirious with fever. She went completely Linda Blair on me. I was [...]
Filed under: bad daddy, raging thoughts | Tagged: anger, Minnehaha Falls, Minnesota, strep throat, The Exorcist, vacation | 9 Comments »
Stumble It!
