“The Dad Is Not A Person; It’s A Lifestyle”: 50 Pics That Scream Dad Energy, Shared By Facebook Page
Nothing changes a man's life like becoming a father. Being entrusted with the responsibility and care of another person is a huge task.
You need to help your child's development, which includes playing, being a good role model, and being warm, loving, and engaged.
But all of this effort is insanely rewarding. Not only do you see your kid grow into an adult but you also get an automatic pass to make all the dad jokes you want.
But don't just take my word for it. There's an online project called The Dad and it's dedicated to illuminating this joyful journey. One of the ways it does that is by tweeting and retweeting spot-on takes on family life and parenting.
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We managed to get in touch with Joel Willis, the founder and executive editor for The Dad, and he was kind enough to have a little chat with us about his own parenting journey.
"As a parent, the only thing you can be certain of is that you will be constantly surprised by what happens. What To Expect When Expecting should just say 'Who knows? But you'll figure it out, probably,'" Willis told Bored Panda.
Every kid, family, and the experiences they share are so different, and Willis thinks it's precisely the reason why raising a child is the best challenge you can have. "Every day is a clean slate full of endless possibilities for tragedy and triumph."
"Parents should keep that in mind, and not be too rigid about what they expect to happen or how they think their kid must behave," he said. "Go with the flow and embrace the craziness. If everything went as planned, wouldn't that be boring? I'm seriously asking, wouldn't it? Please let me know. I have no idea because nothing in my life has gone as planned since my first kid was born 12 years ago."
"While every journey is different, all parents are on the same unpredictable rollercoaster. That's why The Dad content resonates with so many, because we get to laugh at the shared absurdity of it all," the man added.
So true, out after breakfast, home for lunch, out again, back for dinner then gone until bedtime.
My evening "be home by" rule was when the streetlights came on.
Load More Replies...Yeah, we played outside in the woods all the time battleing each other with sticks and most of us still have two eyes!
"Take a towel in case you want to swim.Oh, and stay clear of the really deep part because they never found Timmy's body"
My mother was at her happiest when my siblings and I were outside all day without bothering her. As long as we were home on time for meals and bed time it was all good.
I know this is supposed to be funny... But this is a fakkin problem. This ridiculous over protection is what gives us these weak ass generations that are paranoid and super sensitive.
You may be right , but how many kids "disappeared" when you were a kid?
Load More Replies..."Come home when the street lights come on." For earlier In the day "come home when your hungry for lunch."
I just remembered how I literally went to an abandoned quarry with my friends when I was a kid and my parents didn't care as long as we came back in one piece. We could have died there and probably wouldn't have been found for weeks but... well, that was that, I guess.
Another reason I'm very glad to have no younger relatives. This is no way to live.
For those of us that survived it was good old days. Those who didnt cant post here, like 3 of my childhood friends who died in silly accident that most likely wouldnt happen today.
i was 6, still in last class in kindergarden, when started going out with friends alone aroud the block (park, trees, kindergarden area, playground). That was 30 years ago 🤷🏼♂️
I don't recall if it was kindergarden or elementary, but I was about 5-7, maybe 8 at that time I guess. We had a short school day, so expected at home at 11, 11:30 (ish). My friend and me took a swing at the playground that was on our way home. My mom was scared shitless when we didn't arrive back home until 1pm or so. I know it's several decades too late now, but... Sorry mom. 😅
Load More Replies...I'm sorry, but for the vast majority of Gen-Zs, Millennials, and Gen-Xers, "we played outdoors until dark" is a myth. By the late 1970s, the fear of strangers and crime was so widespread that most parents wanted their kids to stay home. This was also the period of the first explosion in electronic toys, and in TV programming. During the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s kids stayed indoors, matched TV, hung out with friends, and from the early 1990s, started going on the internet. The outdoor playing was something that the some of the older Gen-Xers (born in the 1960s) were the last to experience. I grew up in Israel in the 1970s and 1980s, and I remember speaking with younger American Gen-Xers who visited in the 1980s, and they were contrasting my life growing up - which was still an outdoors childhood, with their childhood, which was mostly spent indoors, except for things like summer camp.
I'm the last of the gen X, 1979. Since I was 3 we spent all day everyday outside, the older kids would look after the youngests. At winter mostly in the courtyard but did walk to a near by outdoor ice rink on most days. Summers were spent between the forest and the beach, didn't go home till we got hungry or it got dark. This was the whole of the 80s. 90s was spent biking around up to 100km/day, exploring abandoned factories and other buildings and drinking cheap wine. And non of us died, tho there were a few close calls.
Load More Replies...Not sure you can compare childhood to adult opinions for purposes of declaring hypocrisy.
Load More Replies...Going through these tweets, the idea that a man can possess parenting instincts and is not just suited to be a provider or a hapless sidekick looks natural, but it is actually relatively new. Just a few generations ago, it was highly controversial. In the '70s, for example, the expectation that men should do more was picking up steam, but they were still considered a poor substitute for moms.
"[The mid-'70s] was the heyday of attachment theory, which, as it was incarnated then, was very much focused on the critical importance of the attachment between an infant and its mother in the first years of life," Michael Lamb, who became a forerunner of fatherhood research at the time and continues to study it at the University of Cambridge in the UK, told Today's Parent. "That went along with the assumption that it was the only [primary] relationship kids could form."
But at the turn of this century, researchers discovered an incredible detail about men: our bodies transform when we become fathers. Turns out, our hormonal systems alter dramatically when we become parents. And it doesn't matter if we're talking biological dads or adoptive ones, heterosexual or queer, the same applies for everyone.
This amazing revelation basically implies that despite the narrow role fathers have put themselves into for so long, our internal chemistry may have always been nudging us toward more involvement.
We know that oxytocin (the love hormone) plays a role in a mother's initial bonding with her child after birth but researchers have observed that the same spike in oxytocin occurs when fathers hold and play with their newborns too.
I was about 5 - so, 1960 - when I asked my mom what it was like to ride in a covered wagon.
When that love drug floods a new father, his testosterone level typically drops, making him less likely to take risks and more able to nurture his newborn. Furthermore, he registers an increase in prolactin, which is a hormone best known for helping women produce breastmilk.
University of Notre Dame anthropologist Lee Gettler explained that the presence of prolactin goes back hundreds of millions of years to our animal ancestors, even before mammals (and breastfeeding) existed. Over the past decade, Gettler has determined the connection between the hormone and modern-day dads. "Fathers with higher prolactin play with their babies in ways that are beneficial for their babies' learning and exploration, and the fathers also seem to be more responsive and sensitive to infant cries," he said. This ancient hormone increases a dad's desire to be close to their little one!
That should come as a relief to those men who are worried about becoming a father. If you put in the time and effort, you're going to be fine. You're a natural!
The householder described the decision to disconnect his electricity on aesthetic grounds as "blatantly unconstitutional"
"Don't try to be perfect," Joel Willis of The Dad said. "There's no such thing as a perfect parent. We all make mistakes. Our kids will grow into adults, and even if they're happy and successful and independent, they'll certainly resent us for something. I tell my kids this sometimes and you know what? The thing they'll resent me for is probably telling them they're going to resent me for something someday."
Willis divides parenting mistakes into big and small. According to him, if you try to avoid the big ones as best you can and don't worry about the small ones, you should be fine. "They build character," he said.
For more similar content, follow The Dad using the links in the introduction. "I just want to mention that while I am the founder and editor-in-chief, The Dad is made up of a team of talented, creative, hilarious folks who create the best parenting content on the web, day after day," Willis added. "They are the best."
Set him straight or he'll never have a profitable career in insurance fraud
And if there's a world record for fastest time to fully unclothe yourself, a toddler that can barely crawl will shatter it.
Even worse: "This idiot once got so drunk he kissed the maid of honor"
My husband on 1st January: Hey, we have to go for a run, because the previous run we did was last year...(yesterday)
Honestly I quite often feel like a last-century kind of dinosaur, and I'm not even 40
And this is why some people think f***y packs are cool...never mind how old the picture is.
Increasing the costs of our weekly grocery shopping with at least €100 is why I got to stay at home.
'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a device was in use, not even the mouse. The phones were all hung up with chargers galore, while a 3d printed wreath was displayed on the door.
My FIL used to snap his fingers before sneezing because he sneezed to loud. I jumped so high the first time I heard him sneeze because they forgot to warm me.
.... and then wake up early for work for another 50 years... and then when you are retired and don't need to wake up early any more, you can't sleep any more and still wake up early!
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