Raising your own kid...

[Bonez]

Starting today I'm a father. Serious, I found out from the hospital that I'm a dad of a two month old kid.

Awesome eh?

I need some advice on how to raise him!

Is there anything you guys can help me with?

If not, I'm just going to work, go to school, and leave the baby to be raised by the mother.

I've got tons of questions.

Like for the first few years, is there anything I should do so the kid doesn't turn out like I did? Should I ask my parents what the regret doing for me, or not doing for me when I was younger?

Should I let the mother raise him, and do my own thing since I can't "talk" to the kid?

I'm still calling my own son "the kid". I feel like a terrible father already

 

[blackbelt2k]

im not a father, but i think because he is your blood, you should be in his life. DO NOT let a woman raise him. Do you really want him to have to find this site 20 years down the line, or you rather teach him from your experiences, so that he never needs this site. Someone i know, once told me, "a teachers job is have their student stand on their shoulders, so that the student can see not only want the teacher can, but more"...replace the world teacher with father.

 

[Desdinova]

Do we really need another boy to be raised only by his mother and have him turn into yet another feminine man? HELL NO.

At least take part in raising the boy and be the male role-model that he desperately needs.

 

[penkitten]

why can't you talk to your child?
i know he is a baby, but he can listen, and know you, and know your voice, and learn to trust you.
in a few months, if you are around, his first word might be dada.

don't be frightened, kids love you unconditionally.

 

[KnockoutJM]

Teach him, and raise him as your own.. He is after all your "heir." Teach him to be a man, and try to be as big a part in his life as you can.