Dads are in charge of eating all the pieces of food that no one wants, like ends of bread, brown bananas, and slightly stale cereal.
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As a parent you always knows that you have to make sacrifices for your kids. And while the big sacrifices are somewhat easy to do (somewhat), it’s those everyday ones, aka food sacrifices, which really gnaw at you.
Kind of in the way you gnaw at those two ends of cardboard that pretends to be bread.
I don’t think that fathers eat left-overs or what others don’t eat.
I mean, I get that this piece was supposed to be snarky and funny (it was, wasn’t it?), but, dude… First of all, “Fatherhood” means eating bread butts only if that’s what you want it to mean. There are plenty of moms who do that, too. My ex-husband is a father, too, but refused to eat bread heels (as we called them), stale cereal, brown bananas, and many other things. They were not good enough for him. Fine. No problem. Since he was the only one eating cereal at the time, and I absolutely die inside when I throw away… Read more »