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The real nightmare

Posted on July 9, 2012 by ParentingIsFunny

Sleeping Beauty (Photo credit: alfromelkhorn)

My four-year-old went through a phase of crying out in the middle of the night because of bad dreams. I got accustomed to the routine of getting out of bed in just my pajama shorts, and sitting in the rocking chair with her until she calmed down.

One night when I heard her calling, I got out of bed, went to her room, picked her up, and just as I was about to sit down with her in the chair she said, “Daddy, could you please put a shirt on?”

Apparently not everyone appreciates a hairy chest.

Paul, father of 3

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dadblunders on July 10, 2012 at 12:30 am said:

LOL…I just don’t understand that…just because a man has a little hair on his chest they get grief from their 3-year-old. I guess though it just comes with the nature of having children. One evening when I was giving my 3 year-old son a goodnight kiss he told me it hurt. Needless to say it was because I hadn’t shaved. He wanted me to go shave then so he could get a “soft” kiss goodnight. I tried to explain to him someday he would have the same problem….he laughed at me and said no that wasn’t going to happen……sigh

Aaron

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- ParentingIsFunny on July 10, 2012 at 12:24 pm said:
  
  I’m afraid I’m with your son on that one. My husband gets the same complaint from me! 😛
  
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  - dadblunders on July 12, 2012 at 10:16 pm said:
    
    Now there is nothing wrong with a few whiskers here and there….I call it having a sense of adventure….lol
    
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  - ParentingIsFunny on July 16, 2012 at 10:17 am said:
    
    Definitely a good attitude. And to be fair, I love the look, just not the feel. I guess I can’t have it all.
    
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free penny press on July 10, 2012 at 3:56 am said:

Reminds me of when my girls were small, Daddy with no shirt got an “Ewww, Daddy”!!
🙂

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- ParentingIsFunny on July 10, 2012 at 12:25 pm said:
  
  My sister gets, “Ewww, Mommy!” from her son. I guess I’m lucky to just have girls.
  
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Sleeping Should Be Easy on July 10, 2012 at 10:37 am said:

Haha this is funny. When we were taking a baby class, the instructor was saying how much newborns love skin to skin contact. She said it in such a funny way, like “skiiiin-to-skiiiin.” So of course here goes my husband who, whenever he has shirt off, chases after our little guy going “skiiin-to-skiiiin” and wanting to smother him with his chest haha.

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- ParentingIsFunny on July 10, 2012 at 12:26 pm said:
  
  Haha! That is very cute. 🙂
  
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Teresa Cleveland Wendel on July 10, 2012 at 5:01 pm said:

So cute!

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