Crotch Shot

The book signing at Barnes & Noble on Thursday went really well, as far as parenting goes, in the sense that I didn't have to do much of it. A few minutes after M. Edium and I arrived, so did other adults and children who were able to entertain and distract him. Even better, the childrens' book section is way over on the other side of the store so I couldn't hear him during the reading, or even see the dust cloud I'm sure he was raising in the distance.

Afterwards, a couple of stragglers were hanging out. The B&N event coordinator had taken down the posters advertising the event and tucked them into sturdy cardboard tubes. Naturally M. Edium latched onto those tubes and was running around with them. And that's when it happened.

Suddenly, without warning, M. Edium swung one end of a tube around and banged it straight into a friend's crotch, sending him staggering back. And in that moment, I failed as a parent. In one sense, I felt like a failure because as his dad, I should have taken that blow myself. Worse yet, my initial reaction was to laugh instead of discipline my boy, a task that fell to his mom instead. But most disappointing, at least to myself, was the fact that I didn't get it on video.

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