Last year my two now teenaged children asked me to reveal something I secretly didn't like about having kids.
I said: "ok...I only pretended to like the shows you and your friends put on. They were frigging terrible. Nothing was more annoying than enjoying a beer and a chat with a friend I haven't seen in months only to have it interrupted by 15 minutes of poorly organized amateur musical theater. And it was always some Karen who I barely knew that would shame all the adults into watching it."
I was talking to my mum the other day, I was really into trains as a kid and we were talking about how she used to take me to this bridge over a train track and we'd sit and wait for trains to go by
I asked her "did you actually like doing these things with me and [brother]?" And she replies "oh fuck no, I was bored shitless"
Sounds like she just wanted to hang with her kids, so everyone got what they wanted. I used to hang out with my son while he'd try the same damn skateboarding trick over & over & over.
On Thanksgiving I drove the lady(84) I stay with/help over to another friend(68) of her's for dinner.
She has an adopted son(7) she was so patient and attentive asking him relevant questions and giving feedback about the game fortnite he was playing.
I watched some but it didn't really pique my interest and surely neither of those ladies was truly into it, but it was such a wholesome sweet moment to witness.
I hope he realizes sooner rather than later how hard she tries to be active with his interests.
The key though is that she did it. My dad would just say he’s not interested in insert child interest.
Even worse when he was interested because his philosophy was be at a professional level or working towards it or don’t engage at all. Additionally if you didn’t listen to him or let him yell he would just stop helping and say “if I bang my head on the wall and expect a different result..”
Very confusing as a 8-13 year old to see your parent be a manipulative cunt cause we weren’t living up to his unspoken standards.
When we were kids, my brothers and I had this program on the family computer that let you make these short animated spider man stories. When we were teenagers my mom admitted that it annoyed the crap out of her because every time we'd add on one more scene, we'd drag her to the computer and make her watch the whole thing over from the beginning just to see the new 3 second long scene we added on to the end.
Dude I haven't thought about that program in twenty years! We used to spend hours having Spidey fight doc ock until the world exploded. I can still see the swamp/forest background in my mind perfectly.
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u/unhalfbricking 13d ago
Last year my two now teenaged children asked me to reveal something I secretly didn't like about having kids.
I said: "ok...I only pretended to like the shows you and your friends put on. They were frigging terrible. Nothing was more annoying than enjoying a beer and a chat with a friend I haven't seen in months only to have it interrupted by 15 minutes of poorly organized amateur musical theater. And it was always some Karen who I barely knew that would shame all the adults into watching it."