{"id":50078,"date":"2024-07-26T14:50:25","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T19:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=50078"},"modified":"2024-07-26T14:50:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T19:50:25","slug":"dad-brog-137-ive-been-waiting-their-entire-lives-for-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=50078","title":{"rendered":"Dad Brog (#137): I\u2019ve been waiting their entire lives for this"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My kids made me bracelets for the first time.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are randomly colored beads, pink, blue, green, yellow, white, red, green.\u00a0 Some smiley faces, some flowers, an octopus, some eyeball-looking beads.\u00a0 Some stars, a moon, and some random letters.<\/span><\/p>\n

And they\u2019re my favorite things in the entire world now, and short of showers and exercise, I\u2019m seldom going to not be wearing them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even before I had kids, whenever I\u2019d see a guy wearing some bracelet or some accessory that was clearly made by their children, I always thought it was sweet, and I admired their sense of security at not being embarrassed or afraid to wear their children\u2019s creations, and I knew that those were the kinds of dads that I wanted to be more like rather than some stuffy stooge of a dad that doesn\u2019t move the needle of what it takes to be a modern, supportive and loving father in this day and age.\u00a0 Few things irk me as when I see content insinuating dads are distant deadbeats and have no connection to their kids, but at the same time I understand how that narrative came to be, and why it\u2019s still in such prevalence.<\/span><\/p>\n

All I really want in my life is to be the type of dad who breaks that sad mold, and be the type of dad that people can look at and talk about as being someone who loves the hell out of their children, is unafraid and apologetic about show affection and doing corny things like wearing princess apparel or colorful bracelets and other handmade jewelry.<\/span><\/p>\n

Over the last few years, watching my kids grow and seeing their interests come and go, ebb and flow, I\u2019ve always been waiting for the time in which they might, in some of their budding arts and crafts explorations, be in a position to make me a bracelet or a necklace, or some other accessory.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That day has finally come, in which a mini bead and bracelet set was provided to them, and I came home to find that they had each made me a bracelet, and I couldn\u2019t have been more over the moon to put them on and wear them with pride and love for my perfect kids.<\/span><\/p>\n

And much like them, they are my treasures.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My kids made me bracelets for the first time. There are randomly colored beads, pink, blue, green, yellow, white, red, green.\u00a0 Some smiley faces, some flowers, an octopus, some eyeball-looking beads.\u00a0 Some stars, a moon, and some random letters. And they\u2019re my favorite things in the entire world now, and short of showers and exercise, … Continue reading Dad Brog (#137): I\u2019ve been waiting their entire lives for this<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[130,193,192],"class_list":["post-50078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-art","tag-dad","tag-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50080,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50078\/revisions\/50080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}