· Returning from Africa
· Sitting the bench my senior year
· Earning my MA
· Dealing with ego from so-called “leaders”
· My dad dying from a brain tumor
· High school breakups
· Watching the first years of American Idol
· Bouts of constipation
· Running up a mountain
· Suicides in basketball
· Walking past homeless people
· Algebra 2
· Spiritual battles
· Watching Batman and Robin
· Mike Schmidt retiring
· Reading To the Lighthouse
· Having memoirs about my dad ripped away
· 1986 Phillies
· Being grounded from TV for two weeks
· Watching anything with Nicholas Cage or Topher Grace
· Seeing pets dead on the road
· People believing things happen for a reason
· People thinking just because something happens, it’s God’s will
· My wife hemorrhaging after our second daughter was born
· Grandparents dying
· Onions in otherwise perfectly good food
· Not getting my $600 security deposit back b/c an azalea dry-rotted
· Migraine
· All four impacted wisdom teeth extracted
· Plantar fasciitis
· Victim of bullying
· Having my neck grabbed by a teacher (I was 10!)
· Having an adult put me in a choke-hold (I was 12!)
· Being forced underwater by a (different) adult (I was 5!)
- cracking my head open and asking in all seriousness if I was going to die
- having my tooth knocked out and all the needles in my gums that followed
- not being able to take our treehouse to our new home
-teaching twenty-two years
-throwing my back out multiple times
-strange, random shoulder injury
-big toe injury after using barefeet to stop swinging (I was on blacktop)
-ramming my toe into the leg of a kitchen table chair
- bad sunburn
-hateful emails from parents
-eczema
You get the point. Some silly. Some serious. Most everybody can relate to. Here’s my point: Of all the difficult/annoying things I have dealt with (or am currently dealing with), nothing…and I mean, NOTHING is more difficult than parenting.
I used to be good at it. Great, actually. Not anymore.
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