Crapping Presents: In Which Oot is Cute
Heya everybody,
It’s been a while since I told a story about my kids here on the blog. And over the last couple days, my kids have been *particularly* fucking cute. So I figured this was as good a time as any to break my dry spell…
My little boys are, despite my best efforts, getting older. Oot is ten, and just a little while back, Cutie (also known as Cutie Snoo) turned an almost incomprehensible six years old.
(Here they are at Gamehole Con, dressed up as squids.)
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This may not make sense to a lot of y’all, but I think one of my main jobs as a dad is to let my children struggle. They need to try things, fail, be frustrated, fail again, get irritated, try again, then eventually get something done and be generally disappointed in the fact that it hasn’t turned out as well as they’d hoped.
I am facing a part of my life where I am trying to grow as a person. In doing so, I have realized that many people around me are protective of me. They have been afraid to let me fall. As a young adult, I have had conversations with these people, asking them to let me mess up, to make mistakes, to learn by getting things wrong. It has been an adjustment for me, because it is one of the first times I have taken my own wings, but I am grateful to everyone for letting me mess up! And you are an amazing father for letting your children have the freedom to make their own mistakes! 💗