Being a Dad...
Being a Dad is the best decision I ever made.
Being a Dad is knowing not everyone should decide the same.
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Being a Dad is bottomless anxiety on a daily basis.
Being a Dad is forgetting to be scared.
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Being a Dad is questioning every decision you make.
Being a Dad is being completely certain sometimes.
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Being a Dad is late night trips to the emergency room with blood everywhere.
Being a Dad is smiling at Christmas before the sun has come up.
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Being a Dad is teaching.
Being a Dad is learning.
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Being a Dad is talking.
Being a Dad is listening.
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Being a Dad is missing what they said.
Being a Dad is hearing what they aren’t telling you.
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Being a Dad is doing silly shit.
Being a Dad is explaining this is some serious shit.
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Being a Dad is being tired.
Being a Dad is finding reserves you didn’t know you had.
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Being a Dad is fucking up sometimes.
Being a Dad is apologizing.
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Being a Dad is explaining that you didn’t fuck up.
Being a Dad is not apologizing.
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Being a Dad is asking for help.
Being a Dad is forgetting there are others to help.
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Being a Dad is explaining that you don’t want help.
Being a Dad is accepting help.
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Being a Dad is buying life insurance.
Being a Dad is paying allowance.
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Being a Dad is rolling your eyes.
Being a Dad is getting laugh lines.
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Being a Dad is getting gray hair.
Being a Dad is combing their hair.
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Being a Dad is losing time for yourself
Being a Dad is gaining time with a part of yourself.
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Being a Dad is playing the game they want to play.
Being a Dad is beating them at the game they wanted to play.
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Being a Dad is hoping they’ll have an easy life.
Being a Dad is hoping they’ll struggle but not too much.
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Being a Dad is going on vacations.
Being a Dad is explaining there won’t be a vacation this year.
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Being a Dad is worrying about that siren heading towards the school.
Being a Dad is noticing how the teachers smile at your kid.
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Being a Dad is noticing your kid isn’t always polite.
Being a Dad is explaining that for the tenth time that you should always be polite.
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Being a Dad is wondering if they’re truly happy.
Being a Dad is worrying that they’re just hiding their pain from you.
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Being a Dad is explaining what death is.
Being a Dad is explaining how to live.
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Being a Dad is being helpless.
Being a Dad is figuring out what can be done.
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Being a Dad is being powerless.
Being a Dad is finding what you can control.
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Being a Dad is watching things fall apart.
Being a Dad is putting things back together.
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Being a Dad is chores on Saturday.
Being a Dad is taking Saturday off to play games.
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Being a Dad is long walks together.
Being a Dad is hearing whining about long walks.
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Being a Dad is saying you don’t know but we’ll find out.
Being a Dad is explaining that you already knew.
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Being a Dad is explaining why.
Being a Dad is explaining why. Again.
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Being a Dad is asking how did it get broken.
Being a Dad is fixing it.
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Being a Dad is asking what in the actual fuck.
Being a Dad is knowing better than to ask sometimes.
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Being a Dad is threats.
Being a Dad is bribes.
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Being a Dad is discipline.
Being a Dad is letting it slide just this one time.
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Being a Dad is picking up ice-cream on the way.
Being a Dad is not having the time or money to get ice-cream.
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Being a Dad is explaining that the trash is trash.
Being a Dad is letting the kid keep some of that trash because it’s inexplicably important to them.
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Being a Dad is going to pick pumpkins.
Being a Dad is watching them grow from fitting in the wheelbarrow to pushing the wheelbarrow.
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Being a Dad is crying without knowing why when they walk out the door.
Being a Dad is enjoying a quiet house.
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Being a Dad is cooking together.
Being a Dad is changing plans and eating out.
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Being a Dad is knowing it’s Monday so you should play the Beatles for them.
Being a Dad is explaining that it’s Friday and you’re going to listen to anything but the Beatles.
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Being a Dad is effortless.
Being a Dad is the most difficult job I’ve ever tackled.
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Being a Dad is complicated.
