Boova's parenting advice: the goddaughter, the beard, and the spit-up
Boova, self-billed as 'John Buva on parenting,' delivers his single-man parenting advice from a day with his five-month-old goddaughter: she yanked his beard with both hands, nearly ripping it out, then spit up down into it after her bottle — the most disgusting thing that's happened to him, handled by smiling, handing her over, and shampooing his face. His advice: don't have a beard with a child. The fathers pile on with their own gross-out stories — a three-year-old putting dice in the dog's rear and sniffing them, and pulling a thumbtack from a toddler's mouth.
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