DOD15: Failure to Dad
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Phoebe has started kindergarten and Thomas has failed to dad properly despite his best efforts. Also in case anyone forgot, Tom's mom killed a monkey. Also how do we deal with tantrums? How do we contain our anger when our kids really push our buttons?
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| 0:00.0 | I'm the cool dad. That's, that's my thing. |
| 0:09.0 | I know now what I can offer you that no one else can. |
| 0:12.0 | Complete and undependent. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm a man. I'm sensitive. I need to feel loved. I need to be desired. |
| 0:23.1 | Yelling is the only part of being a father that I enjoy. |
| 0:28.4 | Welcome to Dear Old Dads, the podcast that's going to make you come to the parent-teacher conferences and sit there and listen. |
| 0:36.1 | I'm Tom Curry, and I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. |
| 0:39.8 | Hello, gentlemen. |
| 0:40.9 | Hello. |
| 0:42.9 | Hello. |
| 0:44.7 | Why, hello there. |
| 0:46.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:47.0 | So here's the funny thing about that is we're not allowed to bring the kids to that, |
| 0:51.3 | at least at my school. |
| 0:52.3 | It's probably very... |
| 0:53.0 | You're not allowed to? |
| 0:54.0 | No, it said, ah, fucking thing. It was like, okay, well, this is a great way already to launch into the story I want to tell today. Because, like, the main theme of this story in school is I am trying, I don't, I'm trying so hard, guys. I'm trying. I don't, here's what I'm trying it. |
| 1:11.3 | I don't want to be the fucking stereotypical dad that's just like, yeah, let the fucking give the mom all of everything and handle everything. |
| 1:18.4 | Because like Lydia, I say it before, and it's even more true now. |
| 1:22.9 | She's working so hard. |
| 1:23.9 | She's like, that's this demanding job. |
| 1:25.3 | And I'm like, I want to be the good dad. |
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