I think we can all agree that patience, just a little patience (whoa, sorry for slipping into a little Axl Rose there), is the hardest thing for anyone to learn but we wanted to know what else the dads and moms of our Facebook community are struggling with right now. Below is a sampling of the hardest things to learn, from the periodic table to how to pee alone.
Richard P. Ouellette: That it’s harder to grind things out to avoid a divorce. Marriage is hard work. Don’t commit to it if you aren’t willing to put the effort in.
Dylan Mortimer: I have two sons 4 & 1 and a daughter 2. For me it is that smart kids are still just kids learning to raise my voice less and be patient with them. Most of the time they act out for a reason so I try to stay calm.
Kathleen Schroeder: To live in the present and treat it like a present (without multi tasking etc.) Be in the moment.
Joe Scutari: Relationships and life in general. Suck at both but it took 30 years to learn it.
Lynton Cole: Keeping up with my kids lingo they learn in the playground.
Mark Connor: How to have toilet time without kids.
Jesse Carty: Long division. I still don’t get it!
Carlos A Sanchez: How to beat Zelda.
John Gehman: The subtle differences in hungry cry, diaper cry, lonely cry, and gas cry.
Michael Lee Ellis: That the kids have to grow up and make their own lives and mistakes (always a few steps behind just in case they need me).
Finally, Mike Jackson answers the way all guys probably would right now or at least at some point in their life: Women…
Mic drop.
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