Mom’s and dads are different.  Moms are emotional, dads are physical.  You know, Venus and Mars.  More evidence:  The flying baby video that’s gone viral recently.  That’s no mamma swingin’ the baby.

As an obviously phony work of video creativity, perhaps I’m spared as a baby doctor from telling the broadcast audience what’s painfully obvious:  Don’t try this at home.  Earlier this video had been available on YouTube but an apparent crisis of conscience has rendered the clip unavailable.  Probably a good idea.  I’m concerned that the imbeciles who spend their days trolling web videos would actually think that the smiling, gurgling baby depicted at the end serves as endorsement of its safety.  All this carries the danger of Jackass, only for dads.

True confessions:  As a baby I would throw my son into the air and catch him on the way down.  While he seemed to enjoy it the real sport came with mom’s reaction.  Never caught on video.  And never dramatic enough to go viral.