Message With a Bottle: Post-It-Note Hilarity From a Stay-at-Home Dad

As parents, we know how relentlessly challenging child-rearing can be, and that coping mechanisms of just about any kind are essential to surviving the roller coaster of parenting. Over at the Message With a Bottle blog, a stay-at-home dad uses Post-it-Notes and humor to maintain his sanity. There's not a lot of background information posted at the site, but the blogger does have this to say about his coping strategy:

On May 19th, I quit my job to be a stay-at-home, freelancer-for-hire and user-of-many-hyphens dad.

As a reminder of everything going on with my writing, I leave Post-It Notes around my office so I don't forget deadlines, meetings and the fact my bank account is nearly empty (it's a sick motivational tool–the yearning to eat).

I decided to incorporate those same organizational principles while watching my son.

These are notes to remind myself what to do, and sometimes more importantly, what not to do when raising a child.

Head over to Message With a Bottle and see what other gems of parenting wit and wisdom await. Be forewarned though that the language of the postings occasionally gets a little PG-13 or stronger.