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oh, and keep fucking everything medical. all shot records, and a kicker was this year i needed proof for college that i was immune to the chicken pox, either by vaccination or by having it. since i had it, i had no fucking proof and had to spend $140 to get titres drawn.

s^ | Kay

Familiarize yourself with craigslist and freecycle.


Recycling and reusing! Not just for liberals anymore! Lol, couldn't resist a minor jab...but very big congratulations are due to you both.

Eturnal, just give yourself space to mess up as a father, realize you won't be perfect and the life of being a family is not always easy. Realize these things, and learn from every situation. Take away whatever knowledge you can out of all experiences with your child.

You will mess up. You will say shit you don't mean. You will get upset. But the important thing is that you do love your son, you love your wife and make sure you leave time to love yourself too! (insert masturbation joke here).



Just accept your own humanity, really, is the best advice I can offer.

Brawlsack

Taking an extended hiatus from gaming

Not to downplay anything because I'll probably be just as anxious when I'm in this situation, but billions of people have been fathers, and there's no reason you should be any worse at it than they have been. Everything's gonna be fine.

If destruction exists, we must destroy everything.
Shuruppak Yuratuhl
Slaad Shrpk Breizh

What Tuhl said.

Brawlsack

Taking an extended hiatus from gaming

Congrats, and while everyone is giving good advice I would like to add is to remember to keep your wife happy. It's going to be both stressful and rewarding and you're both in it together. It will go much, much more smoothly if you go out of your way to keep her happy.

Dvergar /
Quisling

Congrats dude.

I am THE man.
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1) your oldest child will ALWAYS hate you

2) i read/heard somewhere someone talking about your relationship with your spouse being more important than the one with your kid. the reason for that is that in 18 years the kid will be gone and you want to make sure she's still there, etc, etc. so although now while the kid is completely unable to do anything himself, once he's more cognitively-enabled, make sure you don't ignore the misses.

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sunshine.kittens.bubblegum.happythoughts

First, congrats, Second to sum up and add to some of the advice so far.

1. You cant fuck up too bad. Kids are resilient. Dont let them eat shit you would not eat, keep the electric outlets covered, my brother stuck a meat fork in an outlet, if it was not for the wooden handle he would probably be dead.

2. Reading is awsome, even when they have no idea what you are doing. It is not just the reading, but the sound of your voice. I used to read to my kids when they were too young to even talk because the sound of my voice and them seeing my facial expresions made them laugh and comfortable. As they get older encourage them to read. My oldest has a reading program at school that awards points for books depending on the level of the book and they get awards for reaching goals. She is consistently done with her required ammount by week 2 of a 9 week cycle and will usualy more than triple the point goals. She does this because I read to her every night before bed and we would regularly just turn off the tv for a while and read. I have slipped a little with life and my new schedule but my youngest still gets read too each day and she will no read me the stories back.

3. You sleep when you can, but make absolutely sure your wife gets first choice of sleeping time, especially if she is breast feeding because her schedule will directly reflect your sons schedule. You are a computer/gamer nerd, you have tuned your body to go without sleep for long periods of time.

4. Do every activity you can. Things as simple as going to lunch with your kid when they start school are huge to them. I go with both of my kids every chance I get and they light up with joy from eating a hot dog with the old fart they call dad.

5. If you smoke, stop. I smoked from 18 to about 29 and it was the worst mistake of my life. I did not smoke around my kids but when my youngest had a baby blanket that smelled like an ashtray from laying on my jackett I knew it was way past time to stop. You will get grouchy, gain some weight, and want to hijack smokers just to smell their clothes, but you will never make a better decision. If you dont smoke, dont start.

6. Pecking order in the house is now kid>wife>you. Make sure your wife is confortable. She carried your seed inside her for 9 months. Give her mommy time every once in a while. If it comes to it just simply kick her out of the house. Tell her to go see a movie, hit the mall, do something to get out of the house. She will go stir crazy with no one but a infant to talk to all day after a while.

I am sure there are more, but the most important is to love you son with every ounce of your being, and when he is 18 and says he hates you because you wont let him go to a concert, make sure you have the naked baby pictures around to show his friends.

9 level 90s and 10 85s, Damn I need another hobby.

Well said Bane.

I didn't mean for my post to insinuate your gonna mess your kids up, like bane said kids are resilient and you wont mess up too bad, to clarify i was just saying give yourself space to be human when you do

Brawlsack

Taking an extended hiatus from gaming

1. Don't kill him

2. Don't have sex with him

3. Don't do both of those things

You're welcome.

4. Take pictures of his mutant feet, keep them handy in the photo album of embarrassing, mostly naked, baby pictures to show to girls the first time he brings them over

And hit on all of his girlfriends when you show them the pics.

But yeah, grats, enjoy the next twelve years!

Congratulations, Dad! I hope Mom and Chase are doing great. This will be the most thrilling. spiritual, dreadful, confusing, frightening, loving time of your life. You may have other children, and they'll all be great, but you only get to do this for the first time once. Let the feelings flow. Record everything for later. There is some fine advice in those other posts, but one of the best is to remember that kids are more resilient than they appear. Look at the conditions that some children suffer, and yet they somehow make it through. Just think how far ahead Chase already is... two loving, attentive parents. Love your son, love your wife, and put the kid stuff away (smoking, heavy drinking, drugs, thrill-seeking shit). You have a family now, and they need you to live a long healthy life.


You can totally do this, dude. Haha. You have a son!! Pretty amazing, isn't it?

Boredalt - 80 Dwarf Priest - Dissension

Invest in a GOOD camera, and camcorder...imo. and make sure you back everything up

Brawlsack

Taking an extended hiatus from gaming

Legos.

Lots of Legos.

Unless you have not a play room.