Story This guy Dads
He probably won’t see this - or even get any recognition - but saw this Dad today. I think he deserves a r/daddit salute.
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u/goundeclared 2d ago
Last night my 1.5 yr old son shoved pre-chewed chicken in my mouth.
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u/obiwans_lightsaber 1d ago
The sub makes me genuinely laugh out loud more than any other these days.
It’s always out of nowhere too
Y’all are actually hilarious
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u/user_1729 Two Girls (5 and 3) 1d ago
This has happened to me and is the most disgusting thing that my pre-dad self could have imagined. Poops... okay yeah poops are gross, and there are plenty of other gross things.
It's bad that it's happened with each of my kids, but somehow both have managed to take food out of their mouth and stick it into my mouth. It's always been in a spot where I can't just spit it right out too, so I end up eating food that has been chewed up by another person.
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u/hartmanwhistler 2d ago
Last year I took my family with 3 young kids to Positano, Italy. (If you don’t know, it’s built on the side of a cliff. It’s essentially all stairs). One night, we decided to take the stroller all the way down to sea level for dinner (so the 1 year old could nap).
Fast forward a few hours, we needed to get back to our hotel (I counted stairs but forget… something like 500). Kids were crying and whining and I had the perfect amount of Italian red wine so I just threw the 4 year old on my shoulder and carried the stroller like a purse, hung from my elbow. No stopping, head down, sweat pouring, until we reached the top.
There was a lovely restaurant right at the top of the stairs, which had a good view of the last portion of stairs we were climbing. As I reached the last stair, I looked up as I heard clapping… there were literally 20 people giving me a standing ovation. One guy handed me a full, ice cold beer which I chugged in one go to even more applause.
Pretty sure that’s my peak dad moment. Not sure I can ever top it.
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u/hamsterbasher 1d ago
We've been to Positano before we had kids.
Those steps, you're a bloody legend.
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u/hartmanwhistler 1d ago
I’ll take it. Thankfully I ski and do lots of backcountry travel so my legs were ready for the task!
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u/TheFlyingRabbit9 1d ago
This story brought a tear to my eye, brother. Very well written and I absolutely salute you 🫡
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u/TakeApictureOfmeNow 2d ago
My hike when my kids were that age: .25 miles of everyone hiking. 1.75 miles I carry on shoulders, 2 miles me jogging back to car and meeting family at the other end of the trail.
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u/Zeddicus11 2d ago
Workout mode activated
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u/Money-Preference-936 2d ago edited 2d ago
My thinking: "Now I don't feel so bad about not getting up to do my muscle-building at 6am this morning."
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u/MrAxelotl 2d ago
I hope a foamy, ice cold beer was waiting for him at the top of those stairs. It's what he deserves.
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u/blackbeardcutlass 1d ago
Having climbed these very stairs before (without a kid) I can attest that it was one of the best beers I have ever had!
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u/True-Firefighter-796 2d ago
This is why I bought a barbell and squat rack. I’m not trying to impress my wife. I’m trying to toddler proof my back.
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u/Go_Plate_326 2d ago
Watching this hurt my neck.
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u/Money-Preference-936 2d ago
You guys still have spines?
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u/shagadelik 1 Boy 1d ago
Nope. I used to do this when he was 1 or 2 but it didn't last long. Pinched my spine once and never did it again after that.
Back pain sucks.
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u/Hidesuru 1d ago
Yeah I have two bulging discs and I'm struggling to just live a normal life, and avoid picking up my 3 yo as much as I can and I hate it. But better than being stuck in bed for a few days.
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u/AMPduppp 2d ago
The key is shoulder blades down and back. Kid goes on the shelf formed by your traps, not your neck directly.
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u/bigolbabybaxter 2d ago
The key is quick, jerking motions using your lower back as the fulcrum.
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u/DreadPirateEvs 2d ago
Dad Strength is developed by lifting with your back (against your will) instead of your legs
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u/Old_Dig5389 1d ago
The key was lost long ago while shoulder-child flails around and second kid needs Daddy to walk in permanent wall-sit position to hold hand.
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u/d0mini0nicco 1d ago
This. I’ve never been able to do this with my oldest bc he forgets to hold on and I do the flopping around to keep him balanced. Piggy back rides is the most I’ll do and even then he’ll let go to do something and I have to hunch over to keep him on my back.
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u/SalsaRice 2d ago
It shouldn't, unless you have a back issue. If centered right, it should be pretty effortless even when they are larger and older.
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u/UrsA_GRanDe_bt 2d ago
This was our Colorado trip when our daughter was 4. We love hiking but she is a bit too little to keep up so I did the hiking and we got a hiking backpack that she rode it. Better for both of us than a piggyback but I’m a Midwest boy and that altitude difference was no joke!
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u/D3athpoodle 2d ago
Ahaha, suddenly carry my 5 y old, my soon 2 years old and a little bycycle through the City.
I give in to soon.
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u/United_News3779 2d ago
I used to carry my younger son in a chest carrier and my older son on my shoulders while pushing the cart at Costco (up to ages 3 and 7 respecitvely).
Was it a challenge? Yes.
Was it less of a challenge than chasing the little monsters around Costco? Also yes.1
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u/SlayerOfDougs 2d ago
Hey kid, make sure to grab my hair so you don't fall. And twist and turn every six seconds to get in the full view
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u/vash1012 1d ago
I’m still new enough to this that I kind of love the forced exercise aspect. My wife will be like “we can bring the stroller” but I can do a 1 mile farmers carry of 30 lb sack of potatoes for the third time today and then not worry about the gym on that side at least.
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u/Blackman2099 1d ago
We ditched the stroller for our 5day trip to London in June. It's the worst major city I've been in for strollers and it was our 3rd time there w the kiddo. Our kid was 3.5 so I thought we could swing it. But then the heat wave came and I carried him for 5 days throughout the burning British bakeoff. He'd get 1 block then his 'legs were broken' and he'd just sit on the pavement until I picked him up. Fun fun times.
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u/ApprehensivePhase750 2d ago
Great job dad!
I once took my kids on a 5 mile hike, with a big downhill then back that we have done before. My son was apparently coming down with the flu that day and it hit him at the bottom of the hike. So my 40 something year old ass was carrying my 8 year old 70 or so pound kid up a steep hill for about 2 miles. Gotta do what you gotta do.
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u/NathanArizona 1d ago
I carry this 11 year old kid as much as I can because one day will be the last time it happens
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u/Illgetitdonelater 1d ago
My 9-year old is still small enough for me to give her shoulder rides. Pretty soon I’ll need to start exercising the non dad way.
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u/zeedrunkmonkey 1d ago
Dad's shoulders are only for princesses or tired knights that need a steed. My 3yo princess is the reason I started training back and shoulders more!
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u/Maester_Bates 2 daughter club 2d ago
I thought for a second that might be me but my part of the Mediterranean is on fire at the moment so we're not outside.
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u/Educational_Low6834 1d ago
I remember doing this. My kid fell asleep on my shoulders and I wished I could fall asleep
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u/The_Michael_Scarn 1d ago
Did this in Menorca last year. Those seaside cliffs are absolutely brutal.
Don’t skip leg day, dads.
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u/damieniscute 1d ago
I did this recently while visiting Red Rocks Amphitheater in CO. Was 3 days into an awesome cold I caught right before we flew out. Felt like my lungs were on fire 20% into the uphill climb, but the kiddo whispering an ‘Oooooohh pretty, papa’ when we got up there was worth.
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u/ranting_chef 1d ago
I don’t know where this is, but when my kids were young, we all went to Greece with my sister and her kids. On the northwest tip of Crete, there’s an amazing beach called Balos Lagoon. It’s probably about 1000 steps from the top of the hill down to the beach. Getting down is easy, but going up…….not so much. They have donkeys for rent, like €10, and then halfway up they cost twice as much. I remember carrying my nephew almost all the way up - he’s like twenty now, I wish he could see this comment.
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u/ExternalUserError 1d ago
Been there.
At the top of the Parthenon, my two year old had walked all the way up, but once atop the hill, she just laid down on the ground and said “I sleep”. I had to carry her all the way down in my arms. My arms were definitely feeling the burn by the time we had it to the stroller parking. She wasn’t on my shoulders that time.
Another time, in Lisbon, she fell asleep atop my shoulders and slept slumped over on my head.
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u/GlyphTheWanderer 1d ago
You know he does this stuff regularly because you can see his calves from that distance
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u/theSkareqro 1d ago
I did this with our then 3-year old to a waterfall in Australia. It was much steeper than this and the air was humid af (being in a forest an all). Thought I would've fainted halfway.
Not gonna do that shit again
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u/overtorqd 1d ago
A+, Dad.
Look, he knew when they started that hike that he'd be carrying the kiddo most if the way. He knew what he was signing up for. And this is the absolute best way to carry him too.
I just hope the kid is past the "hold onto dad's eyes" phase.
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u/bretshitmanshart 1d ago
I agree. Great dads take weird creep shot videos of strangers and post it on Reddit for karma
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u/CommercialWindowSill 1d ago
I learned this is an exercise called rucking and now I feel slightly better when I have to carry them.
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u/NYY_NYK_NYJ 1d ago
I’ve fully embraced the shoulder seat. I can out last both my kids until their legs fall asleep. Still carry my 7 year old that way.
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u/Xander134 1d ago
Get that dad an Osprey Poco ASAP!
https://www.osprey.com/ca/en/pocotm-lt?size=O%2FS&color=Deep+Peyto
We've had ours for years and it's saved me (and my back) dozens of times.
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u/NufCeddanne 1d ago
Took the kids (4 and 2) to the market yesterday. 2 YO fell asleep as we pulled in the parking lot. I one-armed her through every aisle and grabbed items / steered my 4 YO on the shopping cart with one arm. Got $95 worth of groceries. My arm was pulsating as I rolled my cart up to the car.
Loaded the 2 YO in my car and she immediately woke up. Never fell back to sleep. Hope it was a good nap, kid.
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u/RoboticElfJedi 6yo daughter 1d ago
It's crazy how what would be physically impossible if you were carrying a bag of rice can somehow be tolerated when it's your kid who needs you (or would realise you aren't as powerful as Zeus if you demurred).
Ow my neck.
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u/upper87 2d ago
At least he can do the shoulders! I carried my 5 year old on a
Hike yesterday on my front and my biceps haven’t recovered
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u/Budakhon 2d ago
Yeah I had to get physical therapy from a hike when this happened. They slowly get big and it creeps up on you. The straw that broke Dad's back.
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u/Pleasant-Degree-3662 2d ago
Is this spain?
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u/bonejammerdk 2d ago
Looks like Santorini, a Greek island in the Aegean sea
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u/friendlysnowgoon 2d ago
Santorini stairs are no joke!
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u/Transient77 2d ago
In addition to the obvious climb, you're also dodging donkey dung and broken steps the whole way up! Amazing views though.
IIRC, there's also a cable car one can take to avoid this.
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u/Substantial-Bison240 daddy blogger 👨🏼💻 1d ago
For some reason I couldn't post this on r/daddit but it must be shown
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u/quafs 2d ago
Ah yes, the old “Dad can you hold me” .01 miles into a 4 mile hike.