Arms crossed, chin on chest, wearing a hoodie is peak dad nap form. nothing else comes close

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Fun fact: I was the first person to post a baby announcement on this small island we call Farcaster. It’s grown a lot since. And for this brief moment I am the last. It’s a boy. After 4 girl pregnancies (2 difficult periods in life), we got a boy. Had very little expectation but, right before the moment of learning its gender I got this complete other worldly sense of, what do I teach this boy? and then I questioned that further and I went in a deep rabbit hole of divergent thoughts and i just boiled it down to… It’ll be the first time my wife looks at me as a SME, and the household began to feel balanced for this still moment in time. Let’s see how this progresses. Will report back. I will say it’s a very different sense of pressure that comes from making sure a boy is a decent citizen in this complex world today.

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I accidentally got my early-teen son hooked on photography and Tool / A Perfect Circle / Puscifer, and I could not possibly be a prouder father right now. He’s also doing well in school, has had a girlfriend for more than six months, and has a range of other hobbies that keep him engaged when he’s bored. He spends much more time alone now than he used to, often on long calls with his girlfriend, but he still regularly makes time for me and still seeks out my opinion on what he’s doing throughout the day when we’re not doing something together. This is going far better than I had hoped when I used to think ahead to the teen years of parenting. I just hope the good fortune holds.

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s-tier night light

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We switched our toddler to a “big girl” bed which actually is a big girl bed. It’s a queen bed on a platform frame with bumpers so she doesn’t roll off the side. Most kids bring their stuffed animals to bed or their favorite baby. Those are in the bed and so is her unicorn monster truck my step mom gave her and two sets of paw patrol characters. Nighttime necessities.

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on this note... full time gig. parent. and aspiring to be the best I can be. trying to find that balance is brutal. I have so many side projects on the burner - this is were I feel I am lacking. If you are a parent with a full time gig, side hustle, and also dedicated to fitness and/or a hobby like BJJ, please tell me how you do it consistantly and successfully? Specifically looking for inspiration re: side hustles.

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Unleashing fury on the idiots of X for repeatedly saying my husband should never have kids or is a bad parent because we had to sleep train our second child. Lord forbid a woman be at her breaking point after 8 months of waking every 1-2 hours while have ppd and pprage (I know it's not worth my time but I couldn't stay quiet anymore)

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I survived a solo parenting weekend with my 5yro (who was sick with a fever) and my 2.5 year old. Here is how I optimized for higher success and minimal stress (was still stressful 🫠): 1. kept a routine - my kids are use to a flow. breakfast, activities/play, movie time, nap (for the 2.5yro) lunch, outside time, dinner, bath, sleep. When we are at the dinner table my wife and I will play "high, low, silly" with them and I made sure to still do that even though the wife was away. 2. high reward for positive behavior - i have a deck of pokemon cards for both kids. I bust out a surprise card for a good deed or positive collaboration. Your kid will be super proud of what they earned. Ive used pokemon figurines, stickers, etc in the past. 3. I was largely offline - being the solo parent and disrupting their norm is a big deal. being more present allowed me to really listen and look for queues. allows you the chance to get a head of any sibling fights or upsets and keeps the peace + you connect more. 4. because my oldest was sick I made sure he felt safe but also capable. I nurtured his fever, keep him hydrated, and offered food to keep him energized. getting him to bed on time is also really key since he needed his rest to recover from being sick. All this to say I didn't invent any of these ideas and most of it is to the credit of my amazing wife and life partner. It can be done 😂

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I rarely bother much with parenting twitter as my personal opinion is that there are a zillion ways to raise kids and everyone is going to figure out what works well for them. We were blessed that my wife could stay home with the kids, which allowed for early bed times (cause early dinner - 5 PM was a reality). Bed time for the youngest typically started a bit before 7 so books could be read, and then the next, and the next. We have three. Lights were mostly out by 7:30 or 8 through elementary school. Our kids typically slept more than their classmates. For good parts of the high season, my wife put all the kids to bed cause I would go back to work after dinner. She literally did* 90+ percent of the parenting during the busy season. It was a trade off for our circumstances. FWIW southern New England is also on the eastern edge of the EST zone, it gets dark early, and light early. *Functionally still does, though the parenting demands have evolved as the kids have grown older. https://x.com/sivori/status/2043301699331256637?s=46 s=46 https://x.com/planert41/status/2042986816911913427?s=46

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farcaster parents, how have you changed your views on education in the last year, if at all?

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Hey parents! I thought I’d share a funny story about our second child. When our daughter was 2 yo, we were feeding her vegetable baby food. Green beans, sometimes carrots, occasionally squash were the ones we fed her and she had a decent appetite for them because it was different than milk/formula. Well, one day, my wife was eating an ice cream cone while feeding her the baby food. Apparently, my wife wasn’t scooping up the baby food fast enough because our daughter started reaching for the ice cream cone and the vanilla ice cream smeared all over my daughter’s face. 🤦🏾‍♂️ We wiped it off, but not before our daughter got a taste of the ice cream. As soon as she tasted it, she started reaching for the ice cream cone again. We tried feeding her the green beans, but she just spit them out and reached again for the ice cream. Unfortunately, the precedent had been set and our daughter’s first accidental taste of ice cream made it really challenging to get her to eat her baby food. Well, we switched to apples and banana baby food and she accepted them, but green beans were off the menu from that point onward. She’d barely eat squash or carrots unless we mixed it with apple sauce. Now that she’s 11, she’ll eat a couple pieces of broccoli. Thankfully, she likes carrots. But she still has a sweet tooth and we can’t help but think we inadvertently introduced her, far too young, to sweets. 😅

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My 5 year-old is seeing ghosts. It happened twice, but still. AMA. (And please, tell me it's not uncommon)

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im constantly amazed by the capacity my daughter has for doing 1000 things before she does the thing we asked her to do i read that and could say the same for me creating stuff. kids are mirrors

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gm 🐇 Had a little extra space in the cargo bike (somewhere between the strawberries and the kids), so we ended up rescuing this lonely rabbit on the side of the road 😅

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Abused by toddler is real

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