Cabot Phillips

It has made me more of a softie.

It's made me more empathetic.

I did not consider myself to be an empathetic person really before becoming a parent.

And

Fatherhood has made me completely incapable of reading news stories about children being harmed, of seeing that in movies, seeing that in TV shows.

I cannot do it because it's like, I'm not able to see those things or read about those things without instantly thinking

this is someone's child.

And, you know, these parents love their kids just the way that I love my kids.

And so it has softened my heart in that way, for sure.

As far as changing me, I think it's made me more chill.

I've always been a pretty happy-go-lucky guy, pretty chill.

But...

It's given me more of an ability to laugh at things that are going wrong.

And my wife and I, we've had so many nights, two nights ago, we're giving our kids a bath and my four month old just has explosive diarrhea in the bathtub.

Can we say that on Morning Wire?

Well, he did.

He had explosive diarrhea in the bathtub.

And both of our sons are in the bath and it's going everywhere.

Our two-year-old is laughing, thinking that it's something to play with.

And he's playing with the water.