Posted on 07/22/2013 8:21:11 AM PDT by jimbo123
Papa don’t panic!
New York City can be a terrifying place to raise kids, so some devoted dads are fighting their fears by disinfecting subway poles, logging the weights of poopy diapers down to the ounce, and keeping the plastic surgeon on speed-dial in casejunior gets a bad boo-boo. Heard of helicopter moms? Consider these hovering pops Black Hawk Dads.
“It’s just better to be safe than sorry,” says Doug, 35, who hand washes cups and plates because he fears the dishwasher releases harmful chemicals, thoroughly cleans shopping carts before letting his 4-year-old daughter sit in them, and stocks his New Jersey home with only non-chemical, white vinegar-based cleaners.
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Sounds like the author tracked down a few OCD sufferers and wrote a pretend article about them.
Everything, including vinegar is a chemical. Duh.
/johnny
A.Einstein
At least they will be able to teach their daughters to squat to pee.
“Grizzly dads”? Don’t male grizzlies kill and eat grizzly young in the wild?
Geez, just some liberal New York dads. It would be interesting to meet their wives, and see if the moms are this way. Maybe the moms trained the dads to be over-reactive and over-protective? Depending on how mom is, maybe dad is over-anxious about explaining to mom how the kids got a cut on the finger that day?
These coddled kids won’t develop their immune system, and will grow up to be sickly emos.
There have been other studies which found the majority of shopping carts had ecoli, fecal matter, and other nasties on them.
The majority of EVERYTHING in NYC had ecoli, fecal matter, and other nasties on it.
When I lived there I took sanitizing towlettes with me just in case I got a cut somewhere. If you ever saw the bathrooms in the Port Authority bus station you’d understand completely...
More like Papa Teddy Bears.
Nothing particularly special or more dangerous about them than anything else.
The mothers work and stand up while peeing.
When your second child did it, you'd wipe it off on your pants before handing it back.
When your third child did it, you'd have the dog fetch it and return it to them.
Not because you loved your third child any less, but because you learned they were not quite so fragile as you had initially thought. FWIW, I'm the 4th of 7 kids . . . probably why I never got used to getting coddled or doing much of any coddling.
From the sound of these guys, I’m kind of surprised that they actually fathered kids. They come across as a bunch of neurotic wusses.
i be live many of the "new" child diseases are caused by this overwrought germaphobia. we are in good health and i cook a lot and my kitchen not health inspection passable. i use common sense in dealing with raw chicken and raw pork but the occassional dog hair in the food id no cause for concern.
yay team.. **yawn**
i watch people wipe down the handles and they think they are protecting themselves. but they never wipe down the seat where the babies sit with their diapers.
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