Will
Only after stepping on a lego in the middle of the night and ignoring the pain in order not to wake up the little princess I was carrying to bed did I realize that I was really a dad and not just a father.
2009-12-07 16:51:40 / Rating: 814.75 / 
Story archives - tag: "parenthood"
Melinda B.
When picking up my son's birth certificate it dawned on me that the hospital shouldn't have let a woman doped up on Percocet and Morphine fill out the paperwork.
2009-11-16 11:27:07 / Rating: 158.25 /
Selwyn
The day I finally stopped drinking was when my son showed me the bruises I never knew I gave him.
2009-11-06 14:29:01 / Rating: 532 /
OldMan
As I climbed into the dumpster to retrieve the vomit covered coloring book that my daughter was crying for me to bring back, I realized I would do anything as a parent.
2009-05-29 09:19:10 / Rating: 514.75 /
Onion Volcano
My wife is self-conscious and overweight after bearing our three children, and I still can't stop tearing her clothes off.
2009-05-20 14:11:38 / Rating: 1561.75 /
Liam
There was never a more beautiful sound than when I opened the door and heard her say, "Daddy, I'm scared, I can't feel my legs."
2009-02-06 14:13:29 / Rating: 291.25 /
Mr. Chris G.
The correct response to your wife after coming home from an emergency call only to find that your son had caught the majority of the backyard on fire is not, "That's what you called me home for?"
2009-02-02 11:12:07 / Rating: 264 /
Tim
Before I had a three year old child, I never imagined I'd discuss whether turtles have eyebrows.
2009-01-28 12:30:11 / Rating: 932.5 /
Thomas
As I sat in the church pew watching a movie on Jesus, I got a laugh out of the woman next to me as she was caught off guard by having to explain what a circumcision was to her young boys as it played out on the screen.
2008-12-08 17:27:36 / Rating: 153.25 /
sorry about that
Funny how I considered Mom the weak parent, but he's the one who killed himself.
2008-04-10 14:58:13 / Rating: 277.25 /
Jamie
Upon seeing my newborn daughter for the the first time, it occurred to me that, at age 36, she was the first person I had ever met who was related to me.
2007-12-06 12:18:33 / Rating: 515.5 /
Rodak
By the time she was eleven, I was dismayed to realize that, instead of being the best available antidote to my chronic existential angst, she was developing into its second-generational embodiment.
2007-08-19 21:37:24 / Rating: 216.75 /
Mimi Ghez
When I got my period at age 12, my father stood outside the bathroom door, trying to make me feel better by singing the words to a popular 1970s commercial, "You are a W - U - O - M - A - N, you are a woooman!"
2006-12-15 22:07:47 / Rating: 451.75 /