The kids are officially back in school , and I can imagine that this is causing a lot of mixed emotions for parents right now. On one hand, it's great to have these rugrats out of your hair for 7 hours a day. School might not technically be childcare, but it sometimes feels like it is when you get to work peacefully for hours at a time. At the same time, you can't help but miss them at least a little bit. The worst part of the back-to-school season is how many forms parents must sign. I swear,…

The struggle is real, but the memes are realer.

So unbothered

Dad jokes strike again

Dad humor is timeless

All kinds of funny

Revenge is best served 20 years later

It doesn't take a dad to tell a good dad joke. Sure, any given father has a base selection of pun-laden dad jokes to employ as needed, but cheesy wordplay is for everyone! Even if it's groanworthy, who doesn't like a dad joke ? My father was chock full of weirdly complex dad jokes. Sure, I understood them as I grew up and gained a better understanding of language, but my six-year-old self had trouble comprehending a lot of the puns . At the time, it just seemed like my dad would just say outlan…

Poor tooth fairy

Classic dad move

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It's weird how your relationship with your parents changes once you have kids. Before you get the job of mommy or daddy , you think you understand why your parents made the choices they did, and you have strong opinions about said choices. Once you have kids, those opinions completely change. You start to understand why your parents were the way they were during your childhood. When you're getting the kind of sleep you get when you have a baby, you understand why your mom didn't want to play wi…

It's all about asserting dominance.

Kids are such naturals

Laughter is medicine for the soul

Dad jokes are basically my favorite kind of joke. First, you don't have to be a Dad to tell them. My friend Jonathon is the most consistent purveyor of the specific type of humor, and peppers our hangouts with some seriously Dad-worthy riffs. I think it's because he's Canadian. Second, while not everyone will laugh at a dad joke, they usually have the ability to elicit a healthy eye roll, groan, or scoff once they've been told, and where jokes are concerned, even a minor reaction is satisfying.…