Playing House and Playing Dolls

Models for Young Marriage and Young Parenthood

When you have a kid,
play like a kid,
that is what
your parents did.

Too many people have too many worries about getting married young and having kids young. There is an absence of models of how to do it. The continuity has been broken.

In this transmission, we fix that.

You were born to be a parent. It comes naturally.
Your kid was born to be raised by amateurs.

Most of all, for all the serious side of parenting, it's fun and it's ok to approach it with lightness of heart.

Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash

The proper mental attitude for getting married young and having kids young is that its going to be so awesome playing house and playing dolls.

Yep. Playing house and playing dolls. We said it and we meant it.

When you are first married and young, your spouse is your playmate in playing house. Play it up. Let out your whimsy.

When you have your first baby and are young, your baby is your dolly. Goof around with baby. Play dress up—everyone has lots of cute little outfits floating around they’d love to let you have, especially if they can help. Find that little way you give baby a whirl and baby makes a funny face.

We got bored on our honeymoon (get your mind out of the gutter), we really just wanted to get to our first crappy little rental duplex, so we left early and just played house for the rest of it. That's what we called it, playing house. We had so much fun. I put on over-alls to get dandelions out of the yard, she put on an apron and made dinner. I said grace. It was 100% performative. It was so sexy.

My wife took her mascara to make the kiddo look like he had huge eyebrows.

[Baby] discovered he had an arm today. He spent several minutes staring at his arm and moving it around.