27 sats \ 4 replies \ @grayruby 4 Mar \ parent \ on: How parenting changed me meta
Haha there are certain things, like cleaning diarrhea, that require a different mindset such as "this fucking sucks but just get it done".
My mom is one of those bizarre people who genuinely seems to love every aspect of taking care of little kids. It's borderline inhuman.
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My wife is awesome. I never minded changing diapers or cleaning up spit up but the explosive diarrhea I usually had to tag her in for. Not always, if she was out of sleeping then you gotta do what you gotta do, but I would freeze up and just stare and say "it's everywhere" and not know where to start. Haha.
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I would freeze up and just stare and say "it's everywhere" and not know where to start
Oh yeah, that takes me back. That was usually our shared reaction: just sort of staring at it and being completely unsure where to start.
My wife is definitely the one who rises to the occasion when poop needs to be touched, like when there's a turd in the bath and someone needs to act fast before it gets on the kid.
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