It’s Father’s Day this weekend. My first Father’s Day as an actual dad. And this has somehow granted me license to bash dads for not knowing shit about their kids. It’s in the Dad Rule Book, you can look it up.
The team from Jimmy Kimmel Live sent a crew on the street in Los Angeles to stop some dads with their families and ask the dads questions about their kids.
The questions are simple ones like ‘when is your kid’s birthday?’ and ‘what school does your child go to?’As you can predict from the title of this article the dads fail miserably. They can’t answer the most basic questions about their kids and honestly, I sympathize with them. My son isn’t even three months old and it might be the New Parent Sleep Deprivation™ but there have already been times when people asked me how much he weighed at birth and what time he was born and I haven’t been able to come up with the answer on the spot.
Let’s watch some dads fail miserably at answering basic questions about their kids:
Be better, dads. Yes, I’m talking to myself here. I need to get better at remembering the tiny details of my kid’s life so that I don’t look like a dickfor one day on TV.
I guess now is as good of a time as any to remind you all that Father’s Day is this Sunday (June 16th) so be sure to call your dad and/or get him a present if he’s the kind of father who expects that sort of thing.
You can check out my Father’s Day Gift Guide of ‘50 Gifts Dad Actually Wants This Year‘ for some inspiration.
