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Oct 6, 2022Liked by Bess Kalb

Toddlerhood is the diva stage of human development. I'm crylaughing about you not using your words with the spider.

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Oct 6, 2022Liked by Bess Kalb

You're a monster!

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the list will grow longer when children become 14. much longer.

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I think you made The Book of Life top ten. I wonder if I can get a general atonement pass for s**t I will do in the future? I’m already sorry about it.

G'mar chatimah tovah

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These are all unforgivable sins, ones which even atoning on Yom Kippur should not grant absolution!

I would add the following (with respect to my kids, who are all older):

1) Failing to purchase a Tesla for son number two (the fact that I can't come close to affording one for myself is irrelevant).

2) At some point in his distant past, "forcing" son number one to eat Mac & Cheese during a long-forgotten meal.

3) Telling way, way too many "dad jokes" (guilty as charged)

4) Telling daughter number one that I thought that the movie "Sharkboy and Lavagirl" stole 90 minutes of my life that I could never get back, because that apparently "scarred" her.

5) Telling daughter number two that fasting during Yom Kippur wasn't THAT bad, because "Dad, I'M HUNNNNNNNNGGGGGRYYYYYYYYYYYY, AND THIS IS THE WORST THING EVER!!!!!!!!!!!"

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Oct 7, 2022Liked by Bess Kalb

I’m so grateful our kids are the same age so I don’t have to pretend to be funny, I can just laugh at your jokes about your toddler and know they are exactly what I wish I had been thinking.

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