Look, Here’s The Bottom Line
I love my son more than anything on planet earth. No question about it.
If I don’t blow off some steam, I fear I will blow up at him. I don’t want that. I don’t want to parent him through yelling or spanking. I just want to have some peace. So sometimes, I choose to stand three inches from the T.V. and fly around in a helicopter and shoot fake elk.
It relaxes me.
While we’re at it, I won’t judge you for the thing that relaxes you.
If it’s that glass of wine, shopping, or fantasizing about the ecstasy that is a frozen death, I sup-port you. Parenting is hard as hell, and we need to really stop turning up our noses at parents with kids in the park, at the museum, or watching our neighbor bang their head against his (or her) front door.
Supporting all parents in the end is going to make them a more capable adult to raise a child. Isn’t that what we’re all after here?
That — and to kill terrorists. It’s our American right.
By Andy Landgrebe
@andydrebin
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