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Sean Kent

Kids: Arwen, 8, and Joopsy, 5
Relationship Status: in a serious relationship with Rachel

While his girlfriend Rachel is busy getting ready for her job running a tech startup and painting canvases that hang in galleries around the country, Sean can regularly be found casually waiting with his daughters at the bus stop while wearing ridiculous costumes. This isn't Sean's only manner of entertaining--and humiliating--his kids; he'll look for any way to make an ordinary situation into a laugh. However, this playful family's life wasn't always so fun...

In 2003, at only 29 years old, Sean Kent was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma. Initial treatments eliminated the cancer, but it returned with a vengeance just months later. The doctors at City of Hope Hospital had to operate quickly, performing a bone marrow transplant that narrowly saved his life, though the outlook remained grim. Sean was told he had a 50/50 chance to live out the year.

It is now 2013, a decade later, and Sean's cancer is in full remission. In 2007, he moved in with the love of his life, Rachel, and her two young daughters, Arwen and Joopsy. Since then, it's been six wild years of parenting and mentoring, building and bandaging, teaching and learning, protecting and providing, listening, laughing, and loving. And wearing costumes.

Q&A with Sean Kent

Which of your kids' toys is your favorite to play with?
My favorite is the Nintendo Wii, although whether or not it's their toy or mine at this point is in serious question. I like the hip-hop dance games the most because they allow me to go clubbing from the comfort of my living room while I enjoy an orange soda and some kettle corn.

What's the worst parenting advice you've ever been given? The best?
Someone told me we should breastfeed the kids until they were at least five years old. Five years? Sorry, but Rachel's boobs are my territory. Those kids were just squatters.

The best parenting advice came from Rachel. She told me you can never say "I love you" too many times--to your kids, and to each other. This has proven to be true.

See more of Sean's answers.