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Does this make me a bad father?
8 years ago
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Okay, so, I was wearing this T-shirt the other day, right ( http://shirtigo.co/too-early/ )? Joey was in with mommy at the time, and as soon as I came into the room and he saw it, he immediately started staring at it - HARD. Right away he seemed ambivalent about how he felt about it.
At some point I went off to get lunch and my Michi went about giving Joey his bath. After eating I went to visit them, now freshly out of the bathroom and getting baby dried off. Very soon he spotted my T-shirt again, and immediately started BAWLING his eyes out!! I mean, full on meltdown! - at a time he's normally a very happy baby! Suddenly it seemed daddy was scaring the crap out of him, without doing a thing! So, went back in the bedroom and changed shirts, and after mommy got him calmed down and soothed, he was happy to have daddy around again.
This is a first - him being terrorized by a bunny on a shirt!
At some point I went off to get lunch and my Michi went about giving Joey his bath. After eating I went to visit them, now freshly out of the bathroom and getting baby dried off. Very soon he spotted my T-shirt again, and immediately started BAWLING his eyes out!! I mean, full on meltdown! - at a time he's normally a very happy baby! Suddenly it seemed daddy was scaring the crap out of him, without doing a thing! So, went back in the bedroom and changed shirts, and after mommy got him calmed down and soothed, he was happy to have daddy around again.
This is a first - him being terrorized by a bunny on a shirt!
if, when, communication becomes impossible.
when he gets older he'll realize it isn't always.
and may even like times without it himself.
the only thing that makes anyone a bad anything
has at its root thoughtlessness.
and the younger they are, the more attention that actually need.
of course its likely his mind interpreted something in the image as menacing,
possibly do to some idea he got from some sort of entertainment.
or possibly some experience to him,
which may have passed beneath the radar,
of anyone older.
He saw daddy, and something on daddy's chest that was emoting "I hate you."
He has no idea why something would hate him or be angry at him, and it upset him.
More recently I wore the shirt again as an experiment to see how he'd react. Stiiiiiiiiiiiiiill doesn't like it. I also have a "DON'T LICK COLD POLES" Tee that has a money with it's tongue stuck on a pole. Joey studied that one for a long time, too, but ultimately found that, although he didn't understand what was going on, nevertheless didn't find the image threatening.