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Best Country Songs for Your Parenting Day From Hell

In this episode the Dads get into every parent’s nightmare: the Parenting Day From Hell. We came up with some songs to help you through these trying and exhausting times. These songs approach the Parenting Day From Hell in a variety of ways. Some describe how we are feeling at that moment. Others give us something to look forward to when the day is “over.” We even have a couple of songs in this list that channel our inner HARDY and salute the day with his favorite offensive gesture. 

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Show Notes:

  • 1:16 Dad Life Sound Check: Dave talks about the bonds that brothers form and how they sometimes confuse George Strait with Jose Feliciano. Mick talks about college visits and the song “Starting Over” by Chris Stapleton. 
  • 12:12 HARDY Report: We learn about the history of the Middle Finger thanks to HARDY, Post Malone and Professor Benjamin Bergen.
  • 15:38 Farm Boy Update: Mick is working in the garden and planting spinach.
  • 17:25: The Dads explain their thoughts and soundtracks for the Parenting Day From Hell.

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Transcript

This is Country Music Dads, the parenting podcast with a twang.
We’re bringing you highly subjective, sometimes questionable, but always 100% authentic country music analysis, as only two dads in the trenches of modern parenting could do it.
My name is Dave, and I’m a country music dad.

This is Mick, and I’m also a country music dad, and thank you for joining us on this episode.
We’re gonna talk today about every parent’s nightmare, the parenting day from hell.
And we’re gonna share with you some of the songs that we believe either represent it in some fashion or can maybe help you get through it.
But before we get to that, Dave, how have things been in the concrete jungle?

Thanks for asking.

As always.

Yeah, it’s been great.
It has not, and we’re talking about the Parenting Day from Hell, but I actually, I haven’t had that many of those recently, and I’d probably just jinx myself, but for now, I’m trying to absorb that and enjoy it.

Yeah, with three kids under five, with three kids under five, you jinxed yourself.

I just, things have gone really well, especially with the older two, because they’re more of the issue right now.
They’re, they fight all the time, except right now, for whatever reason, they found a groove where they’re just enjoying each other’s company.
Four and six, there’s all the media traffic around the Kelsey brothers with Jason Kelce retiring.
And I was reading some things about their relationship as brothers, how they support each other.
And that’s something I’m looking forward to with my two boys since they’re close in age, just two years apart.
So right now, actually, they’re kind of inspirational to me.
They get up early in the morning.
And before that was, that used to be annoying that they’d get up early, like six o’clock, ready to go.
But now they’re very independent.
They just do these little creative projects.
They’re helping each other.
It is magical.
And I know that it’s not gonna last.
They’re gonna be fighting each other soon.

It’s gonna last longer than you think, and here’s why.
So my two oldest are exactly two years apart.
And they were each other’s best friends for a long, long time.
Shared a room.


Yeah, that’s what I hear.


Shared a room, you know, everything.
And then as they became teenagers and would still think would go, you know, start going their separate ways, they did.
They did, but each one would kind of turn the other one because they’re so used to spending time together, would share, for example, my daughter got big into anime.
So she, you know, got her brother into anime.
So it’s gonna last.
If they got, it’s like everything else that has a huge foundation or a really strong foundation.
You’re gonna be surprised how long that foundation is gonna carry on.


Yeah, yeah, that’s really exciting.
And I’ve heard that from a lot of parents with kids that are siblings, close in age.
So yeah, super exciting.
I’m starting to see the potential for that early in the morning with the two of them.
So it’s great.
And that’s like, that’s one of the best parts of parenting for me is just watching them develop.
They like develop so much faster, I think, than I expect.
So they surprise me with how smart they’re getting, how many things that they notice.
And one of the things they noticed, so we were in the car and Amarillo by morning came on by George Strait.


Classic, my wife’s favorite country song, by the way.


Oh, okay, there you go.
It is, yeah, I love that song.
As it came on, one of them in the back seat said, is this Feliz Navidad?
I was just…
I was floored.
I was like, no?
What are you talking about?
Feliz Navidad, that was like their most requested Christmas song.
And it starts with heavy strings.
And so I think they heard the intro fiddle on Amarillo by Morning.
And they thought it was Feliz Navidad.
I just thought that was really funny.
And it kind of sent me down a rabbit hole.
Do you know, Mick, how many Christmas albums George Strait recorded?


No, but I’m gonna guess, and I’m gonna say nine.


Wow, that’s a big guess.
It was five, five Christmas albums, which was a lot more than I expected.
I expected like…


That should be an episode, actually, because so many country stars have done Christmas albums.
And a lot of them just don’t get the traction that you would think.
We should look into doing that later in this year, our favorite country versions of Christmas songs.


Yeah, I really, I don’t think I’ve listened to many.
So you’re right.
I don’t think they get the traction or they’re just kind of out of mind for me, but I was shocked that he had five different Christmas albums, but zero recordings of Feliz Navidad, which I think is a big oversight for King George being in Texas and everything.
Maybe he’s got number six on the way.
Anyway.
My boys would be stoked if you did.


They’d be buying that off iTunes or wherever.


Yeah, that’s right.
So what’s going on with you?


Well, we are in the middle, really just still just trying to figure out this college thing.
We had a couple of college visits last week.


Fun stuff.


Yeah, my son knows what he wants to study.
A lot of kids don’t, so we plot that.
We’ve got the locations paired down to two different ones.
We’re looking at Kansas State or Missouri Science and Technology.
He wants to be a mechanical engineer.
Maybe aerospace, but I think the aerospace aspect is going to end up being more of a hobby for him.
I think he’s interested.
A lot of engineering programs have what they’ll call like student design competition teams where kids will make some type of either a floating concrete canoe.
That’s the goal, exactly.
Or you’d have to design a bridge to see how much weight it can hold.
Or they’ve got like the BattleBots TV show that we’re all familiar with.
They have stripped down versions of that.
So a lot of these different engineering schools have these different contests, and some of them have these rocket teams where the parameters vary from year to year on the contest.
But I think he’s going to end up going the aerospace route kind of as an extracurricular through one of those student design teams.
But I think he’s going to end up staying with the mechanical engineering.

I’m all about that.
That’s my former life right there.

Exactly.
Exactly.
That’s why I ask you questions about it from time to time as to what we should be looking at at some of these different programs.
But he’s still, he’s kind of waiting for the epiphany to hit him of, where do I?
He thinks there’s just going to be some magical aha moment where he’s going to know which place feels right.
And Kelly and I just keep trying to tell him, he’s like, dude, that happens for some people, but it doesn’t happen for a lot of people.
And you just got to jump in.
And if it doesn’t work, you transfer to another school.


That’s always the essence of a tough decision when any decision is probably good.
You know, it’s not going to be obvious which one to pick.
So it’s hard to feel to get comfort from that, though, when you have to actually make the choice.


There’s one song that popped up on my Pandora the other night when I was cooking dinner that always brings me a sense of comfort.
And it’s by Chris Stapleton.
And it’s his Starting Over song.
And there’s two specific parts of the song that always just kind of bring me back and make me realize, you know, how lucky life is.
And, you know, one of them specifically relates to my wife and it’s the chorus, you know, where he says, you know, it doesn’t matter to me, wherever we are is where I want to be.
And I just, whenever I hear that, that particular chorus, I’m always just reminded of, you know, no matter how crazy things get, you know, I’ve got my wife, I got my three kids and we’re even if we would have to start over, you know, we’re going to be okay.
So that song, as I said, just kind of always stops me in my tracks.
But then the other part of the song that I always get pulled into is where he starts talking about whenever you run into a little adversity and things get dark or cold or hills to climb is I think some of the exact lyrics, but he talks about how nobody wins afraid of losing.
And I always try to point that out to my kids that you’ve got to keep pushing yourself and you got to take chances because if you don’t try, you don’t know.
So I was in a good mood cooking dinner the other night when this popped up on my Pandora.

Nice man.
Yeah, that song is awesome.
I think that that song is the essence of it really means something different depending on who you are and where you’re at or what you’re going through at a particular time.

Absolutely.

It’s really magical that those the same words can mean really different things.
For me, that song is super emotional.
I actually just met this new dad yesterday and he asked me if it was hard for me to send my two older ones off to school because he had a two year old and he’s thinking about preschool and my answer to him was no, not hard at all.
I love that they’re at school.
This is great.
They’re learning stuff.
But then it reminded me and when you mentioned Starting Over, it reminded me when I dropped off my oldest at preschool for the first time.
It was difficult at that time for that first one and when I got in the car, the song was on the radio and I was doing pretty well emotionally until I got in the car and Chris Stapleton was telling me how things were starting over.
And I cried all the way home and I was cursing Chris Stapleton’s name as I was crying in my car because I thought I was going to get through it.
But yeah, to me that it means like new beginnings and just new phases of life.
And so it was hard.
So I lied to that dad yesterday.
I told him that it was easy, but it was hard.
I just I kind of forgot about it.

You didn’t lie to him.
You know that as well as I do.
You just didn’t.
You just talked about where you are currently not necessarily where you started.

Yeah, for sure.


Pure and simple.
Speaking of where things are currently, what’s HARDY up to?


I’m gonna continue my mission here to give you way more information about HARDY than you ever needed.
So HARDY just posted on Instagram, there’s an account called Hixtape and Hixtape is the series of collaboration albums that HARDY has put out.
And he’s got another, he’s got Hixtape number three coming out at some point this year.
And Post Malone is on a couple of the songs.
So HARDY posted a picture, where Hixtape posted a picture of HARDY and Post Malone flipping off the camera.
And the caption said, lovingly, the middle finger.
The middle finger is kind of, it’s a big part of HARDY’s brand for some reason.

I sprinkle Dixie Crystal on my half time.


He just loves flipping the bird.
And so I did a little research.
So I’m gonna give you a brief history of the middle finger.

Well, we strive to be educational here.

That’s right.
I found a hilarious scholarly article.
It was written by Benjamin K Bergen.
He is a professor of cognitive science at UC San Diego.
And I’ll link it in the show notes.
It’s titled, do gestures retain mental associations with their iconic origins, even after they become emblematic?
An analysis of the middle finger gesture among American English speakers.
And if you have the sense of humor of a 13-year-old like I do, it’s a great read.
Because this is like a legit scholarly article about how people react when they see the middle finger and what they think about.
Originally, there’s actually records of the middle finger being used as an offensive gesture in ancient Greece.
And I chuckle a little bit when I’m thinking about the Greeks debating each other in the public square and just flipping each other off when they get really angry.
It just brings us closer to ancient history than I think we are.


Well, you know, they say history repeats itself.


Yeah, it does.
And so the point of this article was that, I guess originally the middle finger, it was offensive because it was seen as a phallic symbol.
That’s why people would get angry when they’d brandish the middle finger to their opponent.
And the point of his article was that, I don’t think people think that about the middle finger now.
It’s kind of gone beyond its original symbolism.
It’s just something that people do to make a point.
So the meaning is kind of changed.
And I think that HARDY, he’s trying to, I think he’s trying to change the meaning a little bit too, because he very lovingly flips the bird to people.
At his concerts, when he flips off the crowd, it makes me feel good.
I’m not offended at all.
It’s almost like he’s saying, thank you, I appreciate you.
I love you, with the middle finger.
So, maybe that’s HARDY’s legacy, actually.
People are going to be going around flipping each other off in a-

Lovingly.


Yeah.
In a loving way.
So that’s all I got.
I hope that that was helpful.
And that will-


Well, I think once we go through and read the article, then we’ll definitely be able to appreciate HARDY in a new light.


I hope so.
That’s what I’m here for.


Yeah.


So anyway, what’s going on on the farm, Mick?


Changing gears, changing seasons.
I planted some spinach today.


Wow.


Yeah.
The weather’s changing, getting warmer out here.
So time to start getting my cool weather crops in spinach, lettuce.
And then I’ll probably plant some turnip greens and or mustard greens to feed to the chickens.
Just because those things just grow so fast.
And it’s nice to give them some more vitamins than grass, especially because the grass isn’t green out here.
So yeah, that’s what I spent the morning doing, starting to work in the garden.


Awesome, man.
Get those leafy greens going.
It’s good for you too.


That was the idea.
That’s the idea.
Because then hopefully then the spinach will be in full force later in May when the strawberries hit.
I’ve got this awesome recipe for a strawberry spinach salad with some feta cheese and then some vinaigrette on top.
Mix in a bitter green with a sweet fruit cheese for the saltiness.
Sometimes you can throw walnuts on top.
The original recipe had that.
We just leave the walnuts off, but I mean, teach their own.

Yeah.
Not for my kids.
Walnuts are a big X amongst many other things.


But the only time we see walnuts in this house generally is when Kelly makes brownies or chocolate chip cookies.
And then you get the whole with nuts without nuts.
And we have two camps in this house.
There’s my camp and there’s Kelly’s camp.
And her camp usually wins because she’s making them.
It’s a good way to hide your walnuts.


I should try that.
Yeah.
See if they notice.


Put them in the brownies.


There you go.


All right.
So here’s what we’re going to do now.
You had the idea for the songs for the parenting day from hell.
So before we get in to our choices that we would like to share, just kind of explain to everybody what your thought process was here.


It’s going to be a heavy music episode as we share our lists of songs that kind of help us get through those rough days.
But I think we’ve all been there.
I think, especially as parents, you’ve had a bad day, starts off on the wrong foot or just a day where everything is going wrong.
And whatever you’re going through, I think that there is a country song for that.
And I usually turn to music if things are going poorly, I can kind of escape from whatever’s going wrong with my day.
So that was my thought.
I mean, there’s the famous quote by the songwriter for Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Yip Harburgh.
He said, words make you think a thought, music makes you feel a feeling, a song makes you feel a thought.
And sometimes for me, that thought is today sucks.
And that’s okay.
So I wanted an excuse to share some of the songs that have helped me most when I’m having one of those days.
And I wanted to hear what Mick had come up with too.
So it should be fun.


Yeah.
So the only and the one thing I’m going to I want to make sure that our listeners understand is some of these song choices will have been made because of the message in the song.
Some of them are really just for the title and the chorus.
So you know, some of this is is tongue in cheek, whereas some of it is, yep, this is really the thoughts that are going through my brain right now and how I’m processing life.
So, if you don’t mind, I want to take the first one because I think it is just so obvious for when you’re having a rough day at the office,

go for it.


The quintessential song for that is Take This Job and Shove It by Johnny Paycheck.
So you know, when you’re having that bad day, you just want to say to your boss who’s maybe at the time only two feet tall, I’m not working here anymore.


Yeah.
I first heard that song in the credits in Office Space.
Have you seen that movie?


I have, yes.


Mike Judge movie.
When I was working, especially, I feel like I watched that movie quarterly just for commiseration and yeah, Johnny Paycheck plays during the closing credits.


It’s really, that is, I don’t want to get too far off topic, but I’m going to.
That is such an underrated movie.
I think it has reached cult status, you know, especially if you were in the working world in the late nineties with the whole Y2K thing.
I mean, it is, you can just relate to so many scenes in that movie, whether it be the printer or the, what you were talking about.


It’s so good.
I think I had got my first job out of college in the early 2000s and when I first watched it I didn’t quite get it, but every year that I spent in a cubicle it just got more and more relevant.
I probably sang that song in my car on the way home a few times.
Well, good stuff.
Way to kick it off, man.
So changing gears here.
My first song that I’ll share is Hello Walls by Faron Young.
It was actually written by Willie Nelson.
It was one of the first songs, I think, that got some traction that Willie wrote.
And he recorded it later too, but I think the original recording was by Faron Young.
And just the other day, my baby, he started having some trouble sleeping, going down for his naps.
And we’ve gotten really lucky with this one.
He is a great sleeper, usually doesn’t have any problems.
But he’s getting bigger and smarter, so he needed me to be in the room with him for a little bit longer while he was falling asleep.
And I found myself laying on the floor again, waiting for him to fall asleep before I could escape.
And it had been a while since I had to do that with the older two.
And I remember this song being very meaningful to me while I was trapped on the floor in the dark because in the song he’s saying hello to the walls, to the window, to the ceiling.
It’s a heartbreak song, so it’s not really the meaning of the song.
But just when I’m when I’m laying down there, I’m just there’s nothing to do.
Might as well just start talking to inanimate objects.


Kind of like the old Good Night Moon book.


Exactly.
Yeah, very, very much.
Good Night Moon vibes.


All right.
So next on the list is another classic tale of the working world.
The lyrics of the song are really, really spot on with what a lot of us go through the day.
But it’s the song title that makes it even funny from the at home parent.
She just talks about starting, stumbling to the kitchen and pouring herself a cup of ambition and try to come alive.
And you know, how often can we relate to that when whether it’s the middle of the night or the first thing in the morning, you know, just to get up and get her coffee or tea or whatever it is before the, you know, the chaos starts, the work it’s funny is we don’t just work 9 to 5, we’re constantly, I mean, we’re working 9 to 9 for sure and overnight.
But the lyrics are just talking about the underappreciated person in the trenches.
So I always get a kick out of a kick out of that one when people are talking about, oh, I’m so busy here.
I’m so it’s not as much as my kids are older, but I just so often I’m just, you know, oh, I worked this, oh, I’ve had to work here.
I was I would just look at them and I’d say, I’m working right now.
And they just silence.


Even when I was working, 9 to 5 seemed really nice in theory.
But people in the working world are so plugged in all hours of the day.
Even even when I was working, there was pressure, especially after having kids, you got to get home for dinner and get them to bed.
And usually I was logging in after hours.
So 9 to 5 just didn’t didn’t seem like it applied anymore.
I get the the reference for sure.
It’s it’s about grinding.
We’re grinding here.
So yeah, speaking of the working world, when I used to drive home, it wasn’t always take this job and shove it, but there were lots of days at work when I had a rough day at work.
And this next one, it’s called Two Words by Kolby Cooper.
And the two words, they’re very similar to the middle finger.

But not said lovingly.


Not lovingly.
No, it’s a not safe for work kind of a song.
But sometimes you had a rough day, you need to just get some of that aggression out.
It’s another breakup song, and Kolby is getting a lot of his anger out verbally with some bad words.
So don’t play this one in the car when your kids are around, because they’re going to pick up more than just those two words, I think.
It’s a good one just for letting all that frustration out.
You kind of need that sometimes.


Absolutely.
And then after you get the frustration released, then you can realize that, you know what, this is not going to last forever.
And then you kind of start looking to maybe the end of, you know, the end of the day or the end of the particular part of the day.
Maybe it’s in the morning and then you just want to get to nap time, whatever the case.
But so my next, I’m going to kind of lump three together here in the interest of time, just for the simple reason that they all kind of have the same theme.
But when you’re looking forward to the end of the day, some classic songs that represent that are It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere from Alan Jackson, Jimmy Buffett. Drink in My Hand by Eric Church.
And Half of Me by Thomas Rhett.
And those are just the way to celebrate the fact that, all right, it’s not gonna last forever.
We’re gonna get to naptime, we’re gonna get to the end of the day when our partner comes home.
Gotta have something to look forward to at the end of the day, and sometimes that’s, you know, a drink in your hand is what you need to kind of unwind.
And that now, and that can be a cup of coffee, that can be a cup of tea, that can be anything of your choosing.


A mindful cup of coffee absolutely does the trick.
The next two that I’ll share are a little more tongue in cheek.
The one is Welcome to Hard Times by Charley Crockett.
I think when I’m going through a rough day, and one thing that kind of has drawn me to sad country songs is that when I’m hearing about somebody who’s having a worst day than me, that actually makes me feel a lot better.
Charley Crockett, he used to busk in New York Subways, and on the streets in New Orleans and San Francisco, and he’s lived some hard times.
He’s kind of singing about actually hard living situations, but it’s a fun song also.
I like to remind myself that my hard times, like you said, are temporary.
It’s just the day, it’ll be over soon.
Again, it kind of helps me escape from it a little bit.
The second one is by Ernest Tubb, Thanks A Lot.
It’s kind of a sarcastic thanks a lot to, once again, his significant other leaving him.
I feel like when I’m having kind of a lot of negative thoughts during a rough day, I can sometimes catch myself sarcastically responding to my kids when they criticize the food I put in front of them.
I forgot to take the walnuts out.
Thanks a lot.
Yeah, so I think that Ernest Tubb gets the tone right when I’m feeling a little bit snarky with the kids.


I can see that.
I can see that.
The last song that I want to mention is Smoke Break by Carrie Underwood.
And the reason that I think this song is important is you got through the problem of the day.
You got to the end of the day, or you know it’s coming with a drink in your hand.
But now you need to show yourself a little bit of grace.
And you need to realize that, you know what?
It is okay to want two beers instead of one like Thomas Rhett.
It is okay to want a cigarette, you know, even if you don’t smoke.
Because you just need to process what you’ve been through.
And that’s why I think Smoke Break by Carrie Underwood is just the perfect song to realize that it’s over.
It’s done.
And it’s time to move on.


I haven’t been listening to much Carrie Underwood lately, but that one is a banger.
I love that song.
It was definitely in my rotation of commute home from work and blow off some steam kind of song.


I can see that.
Yeah.
Same premise, really.
I mean, you know, whether it be working home or working the office or work in the wherever, I mean, you just gotta, you just have to process that it’s over.


It almost makes me want to take up smoking, which sounds nice.
Anyway, I have two more to share before we wrap things up and they’re both kind of related themes.
I think when I start having a rough day, especially looking after the kids, I feel like there is kind of escalating compounding inconveniences that just start to add up and build on each other.
We’ve heard of the power of compounding interest, but I think that there’s also significant power in compounding inconveniences.
So the first song that I think describes that well is the last thing I needed the first thing this morning.
It’s by Willie Nelson originally.
I like Chris Stapleton’s version even better.
And he’s talking about how the garbage man spilled all his trash on the sidewalk and a hinge fell off the gate.
And when you find yourself in that situation, you’re feeling down.
Every little thing just kind of adds up and seems worse.
So it could be the kid spilled his milk on the table or the baby blew out his diaper.
If I’m in a good mood, those things kind of they just fall off.
No big deal.
Things happen.
If I’m having a rough day, those things can seem insurmountable.
So, I don’t know if you’ve been there, Mick, but…


I have, and I have a perfect representation of this song that I sent you.
So we’ll put it in either the show notes or we’ll put it on the socials.
But this picture is about eight years old now, and it is my daughter standing in the dishwasher.
So I guess it’d be more like on the dishwasher door.
So it’s pulled all the way down.


The dishwasher diving board.


Yes, the dishwasher diving board.
Exactly.
So Cait is standing on the dishwasher and there’s coffee everywhere.


That picture really captured the spill in action.


Yes, and that definitely was the last thing I needed the first thing that morning.
Yes.
But I don’t remember completely having to pull a Kolby Cooper or anything.
I think I just kind of-


It’s a good exercise in self-control.


Exactly.
I think I just decided to say thanks, thanks a lot, and just knew that it would eventually be five o’clock.


That’s right, man.
So my last one, it’s Things Have Gone to Pieces by George Jones.
It’s a similar theme.
Like things are just falling apart and I love how in that song he’s just describing again just very insignificant little things that are going wrong around the house.
The picture fell off the wall.
Someone threw a baseball through his window.
When I’m feeling down, I do like to find the saddest song possible to kind of make me feel better, feel like someone’s there with me.


You do like the sad songs.


And there is nothing to me that is sadder than a George Jones song.
So, Things Have Gone To Pieces is my go-to when things are falling apart around me.


So we kind of went through what gets us through the day or what reminds us of the day, you know, put it in whatever context you need.
But I think we would be remiss if we didn’t mention that there is a reason that we have bad days in the parenting world.
And Dave, I think, chose a very good song that represents this.
So I’m going to cue this up for you, explain your choice and why it’s all worth it.


The song is called Working Man by Larry Fleet.
That’s a great acoustic song and it’s kind of celebrating hard work.
And there’s a few lines in there about his kids also.
He’s spent a long day at the office or wherever he’s working and he’s tired.
He wakes up at 4 a.m.
to start his day, but he’s got those smiling faces waiting for him at home.
He’s got his kids that are going to ask him to play at the end of the day, even though he’s exhausted.
And he’s going to make time for that.
Grind.
Sometimes you are going to be tired.
You’re not going to be having your best day.
And it’s important to remember that it happens to everyone and that we can get through it.
And the reason that we push through it and kind of endure some of these minor or even sometimes major hardships is because we love our kids and we love our families and that’s what they need from us.
So I thought that Working Man is a good final anthem instead of just spending the whole time complaining about the hardships, to spend a little bit of time also celebrating our resilience as parents, our ability to kind of overcome our challenges and keep our eyes fixed on why we’re doing all this.


Absolutely, absolutely.
So there you have it.
As always, we said at the beginning, this list is sometimes questionable, highly subjective, but 100% authentic.
Let us know in the comments, whether it be to our email, countrymusicdads at Gmail, or Country Music Dads on Facebook or Instagram, what songs you use to get through the day.
And the picture of the coffee will be up on the website, countrymusicdads.com.
And what else, Dave, other than just asking everybody to share this with all their friends and subscribe.
Do you have any final words for our…


Yeah, please do.
All the songs will also be on our Spotify playlist, Country Music Dads.
So check it out if you want to queue up any of these for your own sad country parenting playlist.
Take a look.
And yeah, like Mick said, let us know what we missed, because I’d love to add to my own list.


That is something we’re going to do, is we’re going to try to create some playlists based on some of the different things that we talk about.
So yeah, give us, love to grow this playlist.
Give us some more suggestions to add to it.
And we will work them into the Parenting Day from Hell song playlist.
There we go.
All right, thanks for listening.
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