Parenting is Hard, Heres a Tip.

Sean D. Switt
Nov 1 · 6 min read

My day starts at 0500. I blindly grope around in the dark and silence my phone. Somewhere around the third snooze, I get up. By 0700, coffee is poured, eyes are open, and soon the ol’ CPU will be running at full capacity. Instant human, just add coffee.

By 0715, the wife is off to the fabled promised land of Work, where she earns real money and interacts with actual adults. Alas, for me, the purgatory of…

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Sean D. Switt

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Full time stay-at-home-dad, writer, and generally decent human being. I spend my time with my family, writing, or stirring up benevolent mischief.

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