Dad & the Kid's adventures
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Had a birthday party to attend today. Thankfully, the parents are all cool. There was one token woke mom who tried to leverage the occasional bullshit, but no one else was having it. So it worked out.
Then the kiddo wanted to get diner food. But she wanted to take the bike & trailer. I said okay, but with mom gone, we may go kinda fast and are you down for that. She was so down. So we hit the road and I got it up to 28 on that sumbitch. She had a blast, I kinda got windburn.
Across from the diner is a dock by the river where people hang out. She made a friend there and she practiced casting with her new friend's fishing pole. The dad just moved into the area and was asking about the schools. Seemed a decent family.
Then it got dark so we saddled up and tore ass back home. But we stopped at a roadside stand—still open, impossibly—and bought some homemade apple butter for basically nothing. It's what we're eating now.
I grew up doing shit like this every weekend with my parents, aunt and uncles. It was just normal, I didn't know a lot of other kids didn't. And if we hadn't moved, our daughter wouldn't be able to do a lot of these things, either.
Very glad we moved.
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Such a great experience for both of you. Yes, dads need to build their relationships with their kiddos, and it doesn't have to cost much, or anything really, except time. Your kiddo will be so much better equipped for the world with these experiences.
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Such a great experience for both of you. Yes, dads need to build their relationships with their kiddos, and it doesn't have to cost much, or anything really, except time. Your kiddo will be so much better equipped for the world with these experiences.
@brenda said in Dad & the Kid's adventures:
Such a great experience for both of you. Yes, dads need to build their relationships with their kiddos, and it doesn't have to cost much, or anything really, except time. Your kiddo will be so much better equipped for the world with these experiences.
I don't know if I'm putting off the vibe here that this is me "putting in the effort." It really wasn't. I'd rather hang out with the kiddo than most adults.
When we go to playgrounds and such, I sometimes find it very difficult to talk to the other parents. I really don't like having conversations about housing markets, which is the better Target or oh hey, is that the new Honda? That shit is tedious and exhausting. I'd much rather play Statues or chase her around the monkey bars.
Might be tough once she gets to be a teen and she has more social crises to tackle, but right now at least, she's far easier company than a lot of my parental contemporaries.
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@brenda said in Dad & the Kid's adventures:
Such a great experience for both of you. Yes, dads need to build their relationships with their kiddos, and it doesn't have to cost much, or anything really, except time. Your kiddo will be so much better equipped for the world with these experiences.
I don't know if I'm putting off the vibe here that this is me "putting in the effort." It really wasn't. I'd rather hang out with the kiddo than most adults.
When we go to playgrounds and such, I sometimes find it very difficult to talk to the other parents. I really don't like having conversations about housing markets, which is the better Target or oh hey, is that the new Honda? That shit is tedious and exhausting. I'd much rather play Statues or chase her around the monkey bars.
Might be tough once she gets to be a teen and she has more social crises to tackle, but right now at least, she's far easier company than a lot of my parental contemporaries.
@Aqua-Letifer I was the same way when the girls were young.
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Once she gets a little older it becomes important to do things she wants to do that you might not. But it's also important to do things that show her who you really are, beyond the functional role of dad.
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Once she gets a little older it becomes important to do things she wants to do that you might not. But it's also important to do things that show her who you really are, beyond the functional role of dad.
@Mik said in Dad & the Kid's adventures:
Once she gets a little older it becomes important to do things she wants to do that you might not. But it's also important to do things that show her who you really are, beyond the functional role of dad.
Yeah, I think that's a good way of putting it.
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But she wanted to take the bike & trailer. I said okay, but with mom gone, we may go kinda fast and are you down for that. She was so down.
That's great stuff man, but next time maybe let her ride in the trailer so she doesn't have to do all the pedaling.
I was lucky to grow up with brothers so we would often get on our bikes and explore most of the day. Summer or winter.
When my daughter was 2 back in 2020, when the world was shut down, I would take her in the running stroller every day to a creek about a mile away where we would look for owls and throw rocks in the water. Did it nearly every day from March until November, probably. I knew then as I know now that those were some of the best times of my life, and hers too, I hope.
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Great story and great memories that were made @Aqua-Letifer
