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🚨 #BREAKING: Virginia man charged with duct taping his wife to a chair so he could watch football upstairs “in peace”
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DAD TO DAD:
You cannot work 50 hours a week, hit the gym every morning, build wealth, keep the house in order, be an amazing husband, show up fully for your kids, maintain friendships, pursue hobbies, eat perfectly, read every night, and still have unlimited energy left for yourself.
Something will eventually give.
And too many fathers are walking around feeling like failures because they cannot do everything at once.
Social media tells you to be a provider, a present father, a devoted husband, a successful entrepreneur, an athlete, and a man who never complains about being tired.
But you're human. Not a machine.
Your kids don't need a father who has mastered every aspect of life. They need a father who loves them, listens to them, makes time for them, and keeps showing up.
Your family needs your presence more than your perfection.
Build your career. Take care of your health. Chase your dreams. But stop measuring your worth against an impossible standard.
You don't have to excel at everything to be a great dad. Sometimes, doing enough is more than enough.
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There was something special about being a kid when adults didn't feel the need to entertain you every minute of the day.
Your parents could take you somewhere incredibly boring, and you were just expected to deal with it.
The bank. The hardware store. Your mother's friend's house, where you sat on a couch covered in plastic and weren't allowed to touch anything.
Nobody handed you a screen. Nobody worried about whether you were having fun.
You studied the wallpaper. You read the same magazine three times. You stared at the clock and wondered if the second hand had stopped moving.
And if you made the mistake of asking, "Can we go now?" your mother gave you that look.
You know the look.
The one that could end your entire afternoon without a single word being spoken.
I swear, we developed half our imagination simply because our parents refused to entertain us.
Looking back, I think being bored was one of the best things that ever happened to us.
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BEING A DAD IS WEIRD. YOU SPEND ALL DAY WANTING FIVE MINUTES OF PEACE, THEN THE SECOND THE HOUSE GETS QUIET, YOU MISS EVERYBODY.
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Just in: Oklahoma City Thunder All-Defensive guard Cason Wallace has agreed to a five-year, $139 million rookie-scale contract extension, agents Jeff Schwartz, Max Lipsett and Marcus Monk of Excel Sports Management tell ESPN.
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Texas is the fastest team to go from AP #1 to unranked since last season’s Texas team.
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This dude riding in an Uber and the driver decided to play weird songs. At first the passenger didn't enjoy the track but as the driver keeps changing the tracks, it keeps calling his name in the songs.
As if the album was made for him, this is funny and weird 😂.
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A 5-year-old girl plunged 49 feet from a moving cruise ship into the open ocean. Her father heard his wife screaming and raced toward the railing, only to discover that their daughter was gone.
It happened aboard the Disney Dream near the Bahamas, where a family vacation took a terrifying turn when the little girl fell from the ship’s fourth deck.
When her father realized what had happened, he jumped overboard after her, plunging nearly 50 feet into the ocean. But when he surfaced, he couldn’t see his daughter anywhere.
He began desperately calling out for her, searching the water until he finally heard her calling back. He swam toward her and managed to reach her, but they were still stranded in the open ocean as the massive cruise ship began turning around.
For roughly 20 minutes, he kept his little girl afloat, holding her above the water until a rescue boat finally reached them and brought them back to safety.
Both survived, although the father suffered two fractures in his spine from the fall.
It takes an incredible amount of courage to jump nearly 50 feet into the open ocean, not knowing what awaits you below. But this father didn’t hesitate to put his own life on the line for his little girl. Thank God they both made it home.
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Think you can coach a game better than an NFL Head Coach?
Prove it with my new app.
Nfl2mindrill.com
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Shane Gillis should do a joke about how parents are not efficient in the school drop off line so we can finally have a national conversation about that.
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When you have kids, older parents will tell you “they grow up fast.” You’ll hear it a million times. Then one day you’ll realize how true it was. The time flies by as your kids get older. The days are short. Years don’t feel like years anymore. It’s bewildering. Impossible to talk about without sounding cliched.
