So I was discussing with my wife, the things that really worry me about being a parent. Actually not so much about being a parent, but more so about what is going to happen to junior. In no particular order here are my concerns:
1) what if he grows up to be an asshole. Now I know that there is the whole nature/nurture thing, and my wife and I will have a great impact on his upbringing. But we have all met those parents that are wonderful people, giving, provide their child with everything they needs (education, roof over their head, etc.), funny, but their kids still turn out to be complete and total douchebags. Now my wife is all of those wonderful things listed above. I am not. That is why she will be the bad cop and I will be good cop to our children. But nonethesless, this still concerns me.
2) he doesnt get the joke. My wife asked what I meant by this, and they only way I could describe it, is that I would be really disappointed if he would rather watch "Everybody Loves Raymond" than "Curb Your Enthusiasm."
3) he cant properly field a ground ball. Now I'm not saying I will be disappointed if he doesnt make the pro's, but the ability to compete in a pick up game of football, or get up and down the court for basketball is something that would be nice for him to be able to do. I dont want to be one of those sports nuts dads (those guys freak me the fuck out), but I would like him to be competitive at whatever he does.
4) that some day he thinks his dad is so uncool, that he wont even smoke a joint with me. I just think that would be fun one day.
Thats just a partial list, I may add on later.
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Just want to let you know that doing the good cop/bad cop routine is not recommended by child psychologists. As children grow they associate gender with authority; so if the mother is the bad cop-they will view all females as authority figures (they may resent them, be scared of them etc,) and vice versa for males.
I would suggest that as you have an equal relationship you and your wife should take turns playing good cop/ bad cop with you child so he does not grow up with gender bias.
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