Catholic Dads

Daddy Discipline

August 5th, 2007

Have you ever given sage advice about fatherhood and then immediately felt guilty because you don’t feel like YOU follow that same advice?

After a discussion involving a group of parents in which the phrase “I don’t know how you do it with five” was used far too many times for my liking, I was reflecting on some of the comments I made in response to questions about how parenting changes with more children. You see, I made comments like “it’s about consistency and concentration.” And “you need to keep a cool head and an eye for justice.” All this high sounding advice seemed a mite hypocritical when we returned home to the usual weekend chaos.

Act 1, Scene 1. Dad descending staircase into children’s play area, to the tune of Abigail’s high pitched “give it back to me” cry and Isaak’s “go away I’m reading” growl.

[snipped here for the sake of brevity, if you want the rest check it here]

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