Dad Tip of the Day: You Will Get Busted

Dad Tip of the Day: Your kids will tell on you and get you in trouble with your spouse.

My wife is smart. She doesn’t miss much. She got straight A’s in school and has a master’s degree… even her blood type is A positive.

I used to be able to get away with a few things when she wasn’t looking – drinking directly out of the 2-liter soda bottle, tossing a piece of trash across the room into an open trash can, eating a cookie without a napkin, etc. Things that are generally no-no’s in her book.

Well, having kids has seriously restricted my ability to get away with things – my kids rat me out! I apparently haven’t taught them the life fact that “snitches get stiches”.

Like the time I taught my son how to jump off the couch when my wife wasn’t home – he went and told her all about it!

Or the time all of his spoons were dirty, so I gave him a plastic kiwi cutter to eat his ice cream with (it has a spoon on the end!) – ratted out again!

How about the time I told him to wipe his booger on his pants when I couldn’t reach him in the car… or the time we were watching golf on TV while mom as at the grocery store and turned it off when we saw her pulling up - he said “we were watching golf on TV mom” when she asked how things were going… come’on son!

This last weekend we were getting ready for Jacob’s birthday party and there were a few extra balloons, so while mom was inside with Kendra I filled up a regular balloon with water to the size of a basketball to make a ginormous water balloon, but it accidentally popped as we were carrying it to throw it safely into the street and got one of the bouncy toys all wet right before the party… he told on me of course!

There you have it. Dads should be prepared to get in more trouble than ever before on account of their kids! I recommend building up those brownie points with your spouse whenever you can, so maybe you get in less trouble later!

Good luck,

Brian