Has it really been so long..?

If we could be said as parents to earn "stripes", then let it be said that today, I earned a biggie: I changed out a tire tube on my child's bicycle. Not that it's any sort of amazing mechanical accomplishment - when I was growing up I did all my own maintenance - but it is the first one since becoming a father. Call it a milestone, if you wish. It's something daddy's do.

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Has it really been so long..?

If we could be said as parents to earn "stripes", then let it be said that today, I earned a biggie: I changed out a tire tube on my child's bicycle. Not that it's any sort of amazing mechanical accomplishment - when I was growing up I did all my own maintenance - but it is the first one since becoming a father. Call it a milestone, if you wish. It's something daddy's do.

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