dadsonly

I just became dad last month. So from more experienced fathers: What are best ways to express love to your family?

I was laid off earlier this month from my job as an HVAC service tech due to lack of work, a first in the 8 years I’ve been in the industry. I’m looking for work but the mild winter in California has made my job obsolete until it gets hot and I’m feeling ROUGH....

Can I just say, I’m really happy how successfully my kids appreciate a huge variety of foods, and I’ll pat myself on the back for part of it....

Feels like yesterday I had a two year old and a newborn. And yet, here I am planning their third and first birthdays. Where does the time go?

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/11775142...

Later this month we’ll be taking our 2.5 year old daughter to Disney World....

If so we should revive it

I wanted to be one of the first to wish all of you dads a Happy 2024. May you do great dad things this year, and every year!

Over Christmas my oldest who is six months pregnant brought with her a home heart monitor device that lets you hear the baby’s heart. I heard my granddaughters heart for the first time the other day and yeah, happy tears!

Mind sharing any piece of advice that you felt particularly useful? Thank you in advance. I’m so excited!

Let’s get some conversation going, and share the laughs.

It’s surreal. I am sitting here with her sleeping on my lap as mom gets some much needed rest.

It’s bittersweet

We’re trapped indoors for the weekend due to a hurricane, so we’ve put an intermittent screen time limit on the kids (two under tens). They can stare at screens for an hour, then they need to spend a couple of hours doing something else....

Over the weekend my wife snapped a few pictures of our 22mo running around splashing in a lake wearing nothing except a shirt and a swim diaper. My wife was quite taken aback when she uploaded the photo to Facebook, and had the picture removed for nudity / inappropriate content. We all rolled our eyes and figured this was just...

Our daughter started potty training right before she was 2, and took to it pretty easily. I know boys tend to be more of a challenge, but we’re just not sure what to do at this point....

I just found out that my wife got some Narcan for my kid’s first aid kit and I was all like WTF? Turns out Naloxone is being recommended to everyone in the US as a just-in-case life saving med and is now available over the counter. It can even be gotten for free in many states (USA), which is apparently how she got it....

Hey all,...

I was always the guy saying, never having kids....

Ever since we’ve had kids, my usual laid back attitude has been replaced with increasing stress and anxiety. I feel like I manage it well enough, but at the same time I find myself becoming more and more of a hermit....

My son is 4 and is now randomly saying I love you to me and my wife, and at other times giving us proper tight hugs. We are so buzzing about it. Ever since he was born we have been doing that to him as neither of us got it growing up so wanted to show him all the time that he is loved, and it really feels like all that effort...

5 months, 27 days old, and out of nowhere she's suddenly letting "Dadadadada"'s loose all over the place! She's not even doing any mamama's yet! I've been on cloud 9 all evening. My wife is utterly devastated.