Male Problems: The three P s plus another

OK,  lets get down to the opinionated facts for this post and the problem of Daddy taking care of his kids at home.

Males have different chemicals running through their bodies than females.  I think testosterone is one of the major differences between the sexes, but i can stand to be corrected.  This simple fact which is opinion, causes a lot of problems for Daddy to become a good, stay at home Parent.

Why?

Because the most important (one of the most important) rule of parenthood is to follow the three P s of parenting:  Patience, patience and yes more patience.  And, well, because of testosterone, I would gather, although I did drop out of advanced Chemistry and was put back to regular Chemistry in high school, though my biggest problem was getting the darned bunson burner to stay lit, oh I guess I made some errors with that periodical table too,  many males have the patience level of a vampire at the "prettiest neck" contest held at midnight at the Trump Towers casino.  Seriously, males just are hands over hands more impatient.  Heres where I have to insert the tag to some article done by Doctor Smorgasbord who proves with statistics that males are in fact more impatient.  8 to 1 males could not wait for the Heinz "anticipation" ketchup to pour over their hamburger and just shook the bottle furiously to get the gunk out, (I ll kill you, I ll kill you if you dont come out of that bottle onto my hamburger) and other studies done of that sort.

I think its the fault of testosterone.

I do strongly believe that men want to be better Fathers to their children and do in fact even want to stay at home with them more (more on that in another post I have up my sleeve), but they have to overcome more burdens than women do.  Increasing their patience thresh hold is a major one.

Children, especially those 5 and under, have a completely different set of rules than adults.  Well, they have no rules.  They have no timetables, they personally dont have to be anywhere, they dont have to prove or settle anything.  Its just the here and now and what do I want to do at this minute, this second. What is fun and amusing for me right now.  And that, that is going to be a sticking point for Daddy.

When you stay home with your toddlers you have to adhere to the fourth P also, that is, well it could be more patience, but I think you got the picture and I ll stick to three patiences, Participation.  You have to get down in the sandbox and dig the holes with them.  You have to draw pictures with them and color in with them, and play monster and chase them and roll the ball to them until THEY dont want to, not you.  And unless they hit on the one thing you really liked doing as a kid, Im partial to a good coloring book, after a couple minutes of whatever, you really would like to be doing something else.  Eh eh.  You have to stay with the program.  You can handle it for a while, but if the program doesnt change you start to get hot under the collar.  You start to get antsy.  "Can we do something else?"  Again, eh eh.  Then you start to lose patience.  Then you start to get angry.  Then you want to run off to the kitchen to put some tea water on or something.  Eh eh.  You cant stop rolling the ball at this moment.  You have to stick with participation.  Look, dont you find those people who, you are talking to them and at some point they get up and do something else, even go to the kitchen to put on tea water, annoying?  Doesnt it irritate you, even when your Mother does it and you know she loves you? You find them rude?  And you want to do that to your kids?  You really want to do that with the little munchkins who you really do love more than sliced bread and even Heath bars?  Dont be rude, dont be arrogant with your kids.  But the problem is, males, that testosterone is kicking in and you just have to jump up and do something different.  Youve run out of patience.

I really think that is one, if not the tallest, hurdle that males have to overcome in being a 40% or more Daddy at home with their kids.  It can be very dangerous to everyone involved also.  

I dont want this to be a tutorial type blog, but I have to go into the three areas where you really have to keep your ship anchored and stay chilled or it can go very wrong and even nasty.  I have three separate posts for that.  

You ll have to excuse me at this moment though, I have to go buy this really cool, old skool coloring book I saw at an after Christmas sale.  It had Monster Trucks and Gremlins to color in, a present for my daughter of course.