Paranoid Fathers
Am I alone in this situation or what? My husband (and father to our five kids) seems more paranoid than most. You'd think it's a miracle that any of our children are still alive!To him, the world is full of death traps luring all children into it's dark clutches with promises of fun, excitement, or just an end to their boredom. So, although we live two minutes from the school, the kids aren't allowed to bike on the quiet roads to get their. Mind you, my kids' ages range from 9 to 19. He won't let my teenagers walk to the grocery store if it's sprinkling, for fear that a tsunami or twister may be poised to destroy them. He dusts my teenage girls for fingerprints after every date (okay, I'm stretching the truth on this one, but not by much) and he won't let them roam around his old neighborhood in Norway (where the only threats might be a snowflake or weasel) and, I think this is the worst one of all, when we go out on our weekly dateevery Wednesday night, if the kids haven't eaten dinner, they're only allowed to eat oatmeal when we're gone--just in case they choke. Never mind that our teenagers, who babysit for us, know how to do the Heimlich. ANyone out there who shares my sad plight?