This is the personal website of John Watson: father, software developer, artist, guitar player. Follow me on Mastodon or Twitter or Twitch or itch.io or GitHub.

being daddy

Kids are expensive

I am parent, hear me roar

Longing for days gone by

One of those days

Are your kids online? Should they be?

The perils of sleeping in

Better than planned

Use the poop, Luke

The sound of magic

Laughter is the sound of love

One less

I'm suspicious of anyone with three or more children. O, that way madness lies.

He wore those St. Patrick's day socks for a week

A parenting checklist

Falling through fatherhood

Wishing for Neverland

At last, our dinosaur/seasonal vegetable hybrid is ready to be unleashed upon an unsuspecting world!

I married a genius

She's home!

Lessons learned from a month of single parenting

Cheesetastrophe

Well is she a virgin or isn't she?

Bedtime in D

Day 12

Here Comes the Sun

I believe that all good parents are optimists. Who else would attempt the thankless task of turning 2-year-olds into human beings?

Screen time tickets

A quiet, beautiful moment

Homelympics

The family that computes together, stays together

Where'd my baby go?

Stone soup

The Girl

Santa must be a republican

Christmas Eve

Things she likes

I'm forever yours---faithfully

Searching for cookies

Dear Tooth Fairy

Bath time

Learning to write

Rock, paper, scissors

Being Daddy

Dropping off Mr. Grumpy Pants at preschool

I feel like I live inside a Japanese game show

Kids have no idea how good they've got it

That fetus is 17?

Another melancholy milestone: the two-wheeler

Tooth update: it's loose

Truths of parenting

The Kindergarten Journal

Her teeth are the teeth of steel

The Magnificent Burden

Why do toy manufacturers hate parents?

A bed of her own

Mass production of the letter B

Songs of destruction and woe

Today

First day of school

D-O-R-K

A room of his own

Did I just say that?

No house work?

45 minutes

Manganese! Gesundheit.

Who have I become?

You dare to defy ME?

Earthquake @ 8:44am

That's one hairy lobster, Missy

Toddlers: not the people you want making long-term plans for you

Excuse me, do you have the year?

Training wheels

I love the sound of flushing in the morning. It sounds like... victory.

How to get a dog

Pickles

Street lifeguard

Do you hear an echo in here?

But I grew up watching Bugs Bunny -- a cross-dressing, wise-cracking rabbit

The challenge of working from home

The Spring time change is killing me

Hell

Into the great unknown

Breathing

Life and death

Making friends

Happy Easter

The things she says

The end is near

This episode of potty training brought to you by the letters "H", "L", and "A"

80 lubs

Leave a message? With you? Are you mad?

Things I was thinking about on my birthday

Why?

So that's what new teeth look like

Frustration

Terrible twos

Radios

You owe me one

Sleep -- who needs it?

Daddy, I used the potty -- I promise!

Cake

Camping out

Musical chairs

We're [pause] watching [pause] a [pause] movie [pause]

What happened to Daddy Types?

This is probably one of those posts that will embarrass him later

18,507 registered sex offenders

Lying to The Children, Acceptable Situation #47

Lions and tigers and snails, oh my!

Rebel uprising

I love being Santa Claus

Kids 3, Dad 0

Grilled cheese

Mistakes

Kids vs. computers

The long weekend

Kids vs. sleep

That's my boy

The Darth Vader of poop

Phone call

Kids are messy

7am

Bummed

Strangely sentimental

Not it

A thousand curses

Living life

Parental ineptitude

Sesame Street rules

If my life had a soundtrack it'd definitely have a sad "Wa wa waaa" sound

Kids vs. Electronics

Thoughts on misbehaving

My daughter, the critic

Lost time

Ouch

Over and out! Roger!

Serious hair

Sunday at grandma's

Knots

Life and children and death

Turn it up

Logic

The gift of sterility?

Tempo

I'm a princess! With pants!

Batdad

Sandbox

Cuteness is nature's defense mechanism against parents

What hath man wrought?

Perfect timing

Thinking of me...

Blair, the Martha Stewart of Creative Correction

Fold-up infant cabana

Out of the frying pan

Sleigh bells

My son the talker

Nail polish and Barbie dolls

Child seats urged for air travel

Tricycle building

Oh, fickle girl!

The paternity leave joke

Folding shirts

Scooter's Jungle

Wiggles break up

Vacation, day 5

Vacation, day 3

Vacation, day 2

Vacation, day 1

Tantrum Redux

This is normal?

A smile for a blurry daddy

No limits

You talk, it types?

Last cookie

Smart guy

How about Tuesday?

Tickles

Good eater

Jack and the beans

Pre-school

King Kong

Popsicle family

Take cover!

Why?

Happy birthday!

Gone Fishing

Dance class

Hot fudge

Babble

Singing at lunch

Taxes

6th sense

What did you say?

Screwy?

Hi... Daddy?!

Yumm