[ WP ] You are a stay-at-home parent to a super-powered child . Your superhero spouse spends all day saving the world . Write your exasperated post to /r/parenting detailing your unique frustrations .

**Title: ** Any SAHSDs out there understand what I'm going through? * ( self.parenting ) * 
 *submitted 3 hours ago by GammaRayDad_Throwaway to /r/parenting* 
 **Body: ** Sorry for this but I just have to vent to someone. I'm married to a girl who turned out to be one of the Galactic Rangers - well, the Extended Galactic Rangers. I wo n't say which one ( please do n't ask ), but it's not one of the Guardian Nine obviously or you'd know who I was. You wo n't see her in the Daily Looker or on the front page of /r/supernews but she still saves a lot of lives. And yeah I'm proud of her and everything but I feel like my world is collapsing around me since our kid turned 2. 
 
 Here's the thing: she knew about my powers from the beginning, but I did n't know about hers until almost a year into our marriage. That was a pretty big surprise. As a super myself I figured I'd be off saving the world while she took care of the kids. When we finally did our taxes together for the first time I realized: she was getting money from the government, and from the same department as me. And she was getting *more* than me. I understand, her powers are somewhat more impressive when it comes to crimefighting. Me, I dunno. I guess sanitation, green energy... third world according to /r/Futurology I'll be in big demand when the future comes. If it ever comes. 
 
 So yeah, I mean, the positive side is that the sex turned amazing. Two supers instead of one sounds like double the fun but bug summoning powers are n't exactly a good time in bed. So it was like twenty times as fun to when I found out about hers. 
 
 The negative side is that our kid got a power that is n't much like mine. He can switch places with anything green that he can see. Yeah. Fun, right? Now he swaps himself into the fridge the last second before I close it and starts eating the butter. I find a chunk of the neighbor's lawn in his crib basically all the time. I keep the curtains closed and keep nothing green in the house but if they open for even a second he's gone. 
 
 Once it was a green car that drove past. He was in the tub at the time. Had to get the wife to fix that one. After I flooded the street with spiders to stop the oncoming cars from running him over, that is. 
 
 God help me I love him, but every time I got ta go pick him up from outside and bring him back in I think I'm gon na just hold my hand over his eyes until his mom gets home. Which I have done before. He screamed and screamed but I just could n't go chasing after him again. And it's not like I can just call on my wife every time. My wife's powers can stop him but damn.. she earns so much more money than I would. It has to be me at home. 
 
 I go to a few groups every week but one in particular is for supers ( thank god - the organizer's a mesmer and the kids love her illusionary puppet shows and story time ) I made the mistake of complaining there. One of the moms there talked to me in the most patronizing voice about how I should be finding a way to use my powers to solve my problems and how some parents of super kids did n't even have powers and still manage. But her kid is made of fucking metal and she has *magnet powers*. It's like, are you fucking kidding me? Shut up you asshole, you won the kid lottery. But she went on and on about how good her kid was. Like she was n't basically moving his body for him. Poor kid is never going to learn to do anything without her. I was this close to spawning a cockroach in her ear. 
 
 Anyway, I feel like if I have to keep living like this I'm going to lose it and just tape over his eyes. Does it get better when they can understand consequences or entertain themselves with other kids? Just please tell me it gets better.
