Ok Dad Twitter…
Let the world decide who has dared to defy gravity
Highest Child Toss Contest
Bonus points if mom is in the background looking terrified!
The picture does not have to be current but it has to be you.
My oldest daughter. pic.twitter.com/vAVYZ6Zjxf
— Nate Norman (@_NateNorman) February 4, 2022
See where it says “Read 195 replies”? This time it’s worth it.
My head knocks against the stars.
My feet are on the hilltops.
My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of
universal life.
Down in the sounding foam of primal things I
reach my hands and play with pebbles of
destiny.
I have been to hell and back many times.
I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.
I dabble in the blood and guts of the terrible.
I know the passionate seizure of beauty
And the marvelous rebellion of man at all signs
reading “Keep Off.”
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive
in the universe.
Gerard Van der Leun
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I think we have found another Olympic sport.
Some really great tosses there. Some world class woke whining as well, of course.
Alas,I’ve no pics of my personal best:
Me: “Stop crying or else I’ll take you outside and toss you in the snow bank!”
Daughter: “Wa, wa, wa waaaaaaaaaaaaa.”
Picked up, carried outside, tossed.
Me: “You done crying now?”
Daughter: “Do it again daddy, do it again!”
15 minutes later; “One more time daddy, one more time!”
That was epically good, and the memories it kindled of my kids being tossed when they were little is like icing on the cake – toss.
Let’s see the fuck ups too.
Ghost -you are at your curmudgeonly best today.
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Now THAT was funny!
This is the stupidest, most reckless, irresponsible un-characteristic American Digest content I’ve seen in the past three years here. CLICK ON THE IMAGE ABOVE TO SEE ACTUAL PHOTO! In it, Dad stands on a sorta-shoveled driveway with a downhill cant and tosses a little girl ten feet above the asphalt and concrete beneath her. Dad slips / Dad misses / daughter windmills in panic on the way down and she faces a bone-shattering, face-first drop onto a very hard surface, risking (in increasing order of awfulness) painful and expensive hospitalization, disfigurement, brain damage and death.
Do the words “Criminal Endangerment” and “Threatening the Welfare of a Child” mean nothing to any of you? If charged with these, what would be your brilliant defense: “Uhhh … we wuz havin’ fun!”??!?
Please take up a pastime less likely to cause permanent harm to your offspring — juggling chainsaws comes to mind.
Careful there Fred, they’ll label you as curmudgeonly.
Too late, ghostsniper. I am already the regional midwestern distributor for “curmudgeonly” and second runner-up for 2021 Crank of the Year!
“Faces?” or “Experienced?” If she wasn’t actually injured, no harm, no foul.
When I was 2 my dad put me up in front of him in the saddle. Trotted over to the pasture and got off to open the gap (wire gate). I must have moved/vocalized and the horse went ballistic because it knew its rider had dismounted ( it “pitched a wall-eyed fit,” as we say in Texas). Dad grabbed me by one leg simultaneously held me off the ground while retaining the reins and getting the horse under control. I was the oldest and I don’t think he repeated the experience with the other three. Oldest kids have it roughest.