At 4:30am I was a bad father
After 4 hours over trying to get my daughter to sleep I told her she had to go to hospital or sleep

She chose sleep
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 9:23, 2 replies, latest was 11 years ago)

That's top parenting.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 9:28, Reply)

Had to be done
I've had about 10 hours sleep in total this week
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 9:31, Reply)

fucking hell, sporters. how old is that calf?
have I got this to look forward to? I thought we were past that :(
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 9:32, Reply)

She is 7 in January
I could quite literally have cried last night - I am soooooo tired
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 9:32, Reply)

^ GAY ^

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 9:33, Reply)

So you're saying I need to spend 6 years building up sleep?
got it.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 9:34, Reply)

Good luck with that

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 9:35, Reply)

I'm applying gin in a calpol-dose-based regieme.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 9:38, Reply)

tggi^

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 9:39, Reply)

It starts again round age 9 if mine are anything to go by

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 9:33, Reply)

joy

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 9:34, Reply)

I'm pretty sure this isn't the norm.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 9:34, Reply)

No, calf 2 sleeps a lot better

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 9:36, Reply)

Some kids are just bastards.
Some Most
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 9:36, Reply)

They all do it at some point
lack of sleep leads to tiredness leads to tantrums, usually

this can happen to the kids, as well.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 9:36, Reply)

Spare the rod, lokesy...

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 9:40, Reply)

Yup
but a combination of rod and reward is best
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 9:43, Reply)

Kinky.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 9:45, Reply)

A combination of rod stewart and who?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 9:53, Reply)

The Teardrop Explodes, obviously.

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 10:00, Reply)

^ this has no chance of popular page but is an A1 tip-top post for which I warmly congratulate you

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 10:05, Reply)

There won't be any room once your pic gets on there anyway...!

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 10:10, Reply)

and theres today's earworm

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 10:13, Reply)

Yeah I've had the riff stuck in my head since Lokesy posted that.
Not the rest of the song, oh no. Just the riff, over and over again.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 10:14, Reply)

The ending is a wonderful example of how to split a high note on a trumpet

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 10:19, Reply)

Little tangle has just started learning to play the trumpet
I'm hoping he might be the next Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 10:21, Reply)

Much better that than a violin or something
You can get up to "playing a tune" stage quite quickly on a trumpet, on a scratchbox it takes months and months to stop it sounding like someone torturing a cat.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 10:28, Reply)

i was like that for a while
i've always been a v light sleeper/needed hardly any sleep. must have driven my parents crackers. i went through a stage where i was terrified of being the only one awake in the house, which meant of course that i couldn't sleep for teh fear.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 9:54, Reply)

No wonder your old man was keen to buy you a house at the other end of the country.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 9:57, Reply)

this thought has occurred to me on several occasions, yes
as a really tiny swipe, i used to wake up in the middle of the night, and bellow out nursery rhymes in my then yorkshire accent. i was too stupid to realise i could get out of bed (bonus) but that meant one parent had to get in with me, to shut me up. my mum said that on the occasions when she sent my dad, inevitably there would be shouting and a slammed bedroom door about 30 mins later, and then i would be sobbing on the landing.

i have every sympathy with him. i would have kicked myself down the stairs.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 9:59, Reply)

Can't you just lock them in a room, remove any sharp or potentially harmful objects and put in some earplugs and sleep?

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Fri 11 Oct 2013, 9:41, Reply)

and what?!!!!

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 9:41, Reply)

Oh, sleep
She is high maintenance to say the least. Fucking terrified of everything - dark, closed doors, etc.

You get the picture...
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 9:42, Reply)

God I hate kids, don't you?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 9:42, Reply)

Today, yes
She was inconsolable this morning until she'd had some breakfast then amazingly cured
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 9:44, Reply)

Attention seeking
They do it all the time. Controlled crying works for some but needs a lot of time to do it, not fun.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 9:46, Reply)

maybe you ought to have had a child that was less of a fucking wimp?

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Fri 11 Oct 2013, 9:44, Reply)

HA!

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 9:47, Reply)

tggi^

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 10:06, Reply)

People in druid robes and owl masks...the list goes on.

(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 9:45, Reply)

I bet you wish you never hired Bartleby as a babysitter

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 9:47, Reply)

"Something was wrong with the kids, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it..."

( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 10:16, Reply)

on in
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 10:17, Reply)

officelol

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 10:18, Reply)

This works on my dog.
They're basically like really hairy kids.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 9:45, Reply)

With more amusing genitals.

(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 9:52, Reply)