{"id":49304,"date":"2023-04-12T09:46:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T14:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49304"},"modified":"2023-04-21T09:46:32","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T14:46:32","slug":"dad-brog-109-my-kids-seem-to-only-have-my-weaknesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49304","title":{"rendered":"Dad Brog #109: My kids seem to only have my weaknesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-49305 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/badrash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/badrash.jpg 560w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/badrash-300x177.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Up until recently, I\u2019ve been thinking that #2 seemed to be the more sturdy of my daughters, seeing as how #1 can\u2019t eat eggs without it coming back out in some unpleasant fashion.\u00a0 She gets this unfortunate ailment from me, seeing as how almost to the day I turned 30 years old, my body has decided to revolt against eggs.\u00a0 I can still eat things with eggs as an ingredient to a small extent, but I can\u2019t fry up eggs or hard boil them and eat them without a fairly predictable and unpleasant result a few hours later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/the_stig_form_bbcjpg-JS4290682.jpg\">Some say<\/a> that peoples\u2019 dietary tendencies have a tendency to change every 7-10 years, but it was actually very recently where I indulged in a quiche, and most definitely paid for it later in the day.\u00a0 A decade later and my body still doesn\u2019t like dealing with eggs any more than when I was 30.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">However, not only can #2 eat eggs, she loves them.\u00a0 Scrambled, fried, Korean-souffle style, she really enjoys eggs, and doesn\u2019t have any ill effects like her sister or dad does.\u00a0 For that reason alone, I figured she was the more resilient child.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Until just a day ago, I was getting texts from my au pair asking if #2 had any allergies.\u00a0 Subsequent photos came in, and there were some rashes on my daughter that were unnerving to see, resulting in me leaving work early and taking her in to urgent care, because I wanted to get some professional opinion on what I was already suspecting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">At the tail end of the cruise, my group did a load of laundry on the ship, so that we could get it out of the way while on the ship, as well as the fact that with as many outfit changes my kids were doing, we had to.\u00a0 As is often the case with lots of cruises, nothing is free, and I had to purchase an individual wash cycle, a dryer cycle, and because we didn\u2019t bring any, some laundry detergent, which was a plain, regular single-serving size of Tide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Long story short, I quickly pieced things together, and made an educated guess that it was a detergent-related rash that #2 was dealing with, because some articles of clothing from the cruise laundry were coming back into circulation, as well as the fact that, not specifically with Tide, but again, a detergent allergy is something that has happened to me before as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In my case, it\u2019s Purex, or whatever the fuck they put in their formula, that triggers my body to have a rather unpleasant hives-ey\/rash-ey reaction, and it\u2019s pretty evident that Tide has the same effect on my daughter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Needless to say, swapping out the afflicted articles and replacing them with not-Tide washed bedding and clothes have already stabilized things, and I\u2019ve learned that Tide is 100% on the blacklist for shopping in the future<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">But it\u2019s apparent that my second child has picked up a weakness from her dad, just like her sister has.\u00a0 It\u2019s too early to tell yet, but I\u2019m hoping, considering how much they\u2019re already taking after me, that they get some of my strengths and don\u2019t just continue to grow with weaknesses of mine without any sort of balance.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up until recently, I\u2019ve been thinking that #2 seemed to be the more sturdy of my daughters, seeing as how #1 can\u2019t eat eggs without it coming back out in some unpleasant fashion.\u00a0 She gets this unfortunate ailment from me, seeing as how almost to the day I turned 30 years old, my body has &hellip; 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