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
Hereâs a warning, though. Donât ever say to a child, âAre you getting a little chubby?â 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 girlsâ body images.
Another of my uncles said these things to me:
âDid you check the air in the tires? You never check the air in the tires, do you?â
âIf you keep throwing curveballs, youâll ruin your arm.â
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, âThat boyâs about to be a man, ainât he?â and my uncle said, âNot that one.â
This uncle lived off and on with my mother, father, and me while I was growing upâusually for six months at a time (heâd spend the next six months with another of his sisters)âand surely we talked some, though not much, and perhaps he once said something encouraging to me, but if so, I donât remember what it was. And when he was very intoxicated, he called me by another nephewâs name.
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