u/throwawaye1712

I’ve been a stay-at-home dad for about seven months now and would say that 80% of my time is awful and 20% of my time is happy. I have two kids aged 2 and 4 and the amount of energy it takes to wrangle them, dealing with their constant demands, fighting, as well as managing some domestic chores is absolutely wearing on me.

I am shouting a lot of the time, angry, frustrated, and wishing I could just have some peace and quiet.

But my wife and I agreed that we’d keep them at home because we don’t want to deal with daycare and my wife makes 4-5x what I make so strategically it made more sense for me to stay home even though I don’t have some grand calling and joyful parental desire to do so.

Does anyone else feel the same way? How to deal with the feeling that I would rather do anything else than childcare but also being stuck doing it out of necessity?

The more people that sign up, the more people in line, the worse the experience is for everybody else, meaning that ultimately it will be just as bad as normal lines.

Does anyone here have song suggestions for the themes from Psalm 16?

To what extent can you involve or teach kids about communion? What I mean is: if a child is interested but not baptized, is a parent allowed to give them a sip or nibble while the elements are being passed and we sit in the pews, especially if they are fussing about trying some?

Alternatively, is it possible to take some grape juice and crackers at home and teach the kids, “hey this is what we do for communion and what it means?” and have them partake?

I hear all the time that you should choose a seminary based on its faculty. And at face value that makes a lot of sense. At the graduate level, you want to learn from the best of the best, the thinkers and theologians and pastors and authorities in their respective field. Those whose scholarship, teaching, and care for students are unmatched and unparalleled.

That is all great and all but how do you know all that if you don’t know any faculty? Other than the most famous names on the Internet or those who have written best selling mainstream books, how do I know who is good and who is not good?

Our church is having a summer retreat and will not be having service on one particular Sunday. Certain travel-related reasons make it so that I cannot attend the retreat.

Therefore, I can certainly not go to church that Sunday or visit another church in the area.

As a Protestant, is it wise or within the realm of Christian freedom to visit a local Roman Catholic parish for mass? I do not plan on participating in the Eucharist or confession or any Hail Marys or other stuff like that. Just to listen to the songs and homily, say some greetings to people and head out. Mostly just to take it all in and see what it’s like.

Am I allowed to do this or is this a bad idea? Will this be looked down upon by my church if they found out what I did? Are there any cautions or advice I need to be aware of?

Any recommendations on folks who will come out to assess and do repairs on windows and doors instead of trying to sell me new ones?

We may need someone to stay in our home in the evenings after the kids go down while we go out. Something like 8-10pm. In that time, we are thinking of asking them to pick up around the house, chop and wash some ingredients for us, etc.

Alternatively, we may need them on an afternoon let’s say 1-4pm. We have two kids (4 and 1.5). The younger will nap about half that time so she’ll need to watch one or two kids at any given point in time.

I’ve gotten my share of frozen custard for a while now.

This was the last post about it but it seems like they’re not closed anymore?

https://www.reddit.com/r/pittsburgh/s/CGmJgGtc7a