Papadaddy's Book for New Fathers by Clyde Edgerton

Papadaddy's Book for New Fathers by Clyde Edgerton

Author:Clyde Edgerton [EDGERTON, CLYDE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Family & Relationships / General, Family & Relationships / Parenting / Fatherhood, Humor / General
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2013-05-07T00:00:00+00:00


Here’s a warning, though. Don’t ever say to a child, “Are you getting a little chubby?” Many of you reading this have more sense than I do. And my thirty-year-old daughter, Catherine, has, reasonably, never forgotten my saying that to her. Her college thesis was about adolescent girls’ body images.

Another of my uncles said these things to me:

“Did you check the air in the tires? You never check the air in the tires, do you?”

“If you keep throwing curveballs, you’ll ruin your arm.”

One day when I was fourteen, I walked into the general store near home. This uncle and several older men were sitting around. One of the men said, “That boy’s about to be a man, ain’t he?” and my uncle said, “Not that one.”

This uncle lived off and on with my mother, father, and me while I was growing up—usually for six months at a time (he’d spend the next six months with another of his sisters)—and surely we talked some, though not much, and perhaps he once said something encouraging to me, but if so, I don’t remember what it was. And when he was very intoxicated, he called me by another nephew’s name.



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