Boys do your house in.
Girls do your head in.
Girls do your head in.
Yet to happenAnd then. one day, you hear those special words, "what time would you like picking up at the airport Dad?"
I fully agree with what you say. but think on, several more years down the line, you will have the wonderful experience of grandchildren, and like me, once again be able to crawl about on all fours, while they swarm all over you, piggy backs, flying angles, rough and tumbles on the ;lawn with the lads, and manic football kickabouts on a warm summers day, leaving the mums and dads to shoot the breeze, drink your booze, and empty the fridge and larder, while you are on " Playground duty" and loving it. On the up side, at dark O'Clock, they all depart, leaving you and your old lady to clear up the mess, and i would not have it any other way. We are both looking forward to the lifting of restrictions, when once again, the ancestral family pile will again take on the mantle of the first battle of the Somme, as 8 grandchildren descend to visit their nana, and grumpy granddad....bring it on.The wisest thing ever posted on Arrse.
Make the most of it while it's there. In a flash you'll go from being somebody's hero to being a human cashpoint machine, taxi driver, sayer of all things wrong that make any situation worse.....
You're a lucky man, I pray that eventually that will come my way.I fully agree with what you say. but think on, several more years down the line, you will have the wonderful experience of grandchildren, and like me, once again be able to crawl about on all fours, while they swarm all over you, piggy backs, flying angles, rough and tumbles on the ;lawn with the lads, and manic football kickabouts on a warm summers day, leaving the mums and dads to shoot the breeze, drink your booze, and empty the fridge and larder, while you are on " Playground duty" and loving it. On the up side, at dark O'Clock, they all depart, leaving you and your old lady to clear up the mess, and i would not have it any other way. We are both looking forward to the lifting of restrictions, when once again, the ancestral family pile will again take on the mantle of the first battle of the Somme, as 8 grandchildren descend to visit their nana, and grumpy granddad....bring it on.
4 daughters. 2 sons. 8 grandchildren.
You're a lucky man, I pray that eventually that will come my way.
Agree. A daughter is the source of many of my woes.No girls here........Thank Feck.
A completely different dynamic, regardless of what the Marxists would have you believe about gender equality.
Par for the course, try having 4, with all the aggro of boyfriends, stranded without cash 100 miles from home, broken down on a deserted road in the middle of nowhere, in a supermarket without enough cash, and can you come over and fix, this that and every dam thing that could conceivably go wrong. Oh, and at 2200hrs" Dad Dad the kitchen's flooded" Then you get plod phoning you" sorry to tell you that your daughter has been mugged" or a son walking in dripping wet, because he has been beaten up by a gang of yobs, and thrown in the cut, while in uniform on his way to air cadets*, and so it goes on until they all get married, or shack up and produce our beautiful grandchildren. Its at this point that it all makes sense, welcome to the wonderful world of parenting.Agree. A daughter is the source of many of my woes.
Reminds me of three years back landing Edinburgh from OZ, went there and back solo.And then. one day, you hear those special words, "what time would you like picking up at the airport Dad?"
More reason to produce the next generation to sort it out after we are all gone.Neither SWMBO or I would have a kid or 3 now, if our clock got wound forward 40 years.
This world is turning into an utter crock of shit.
Only a few big F off asteroids would sort out what I see needing fixed tbh.More reason to produce the next generation to sort it out after we are all gone.
Neither SWMBO or I would have a kid or 3 now, if our clock got wound forward 40 years.
This world is turning into an utter crock of shit.
No idea. Social & family "values" have changed so much in 50 years.How do you think your parents felt?
Such is the way of the world. Human history is littered with upheaval and societal issues, that those generations thought would result in the end of civilisation etc.Neither SWMBO or I would have a kid or 3 now, if our clock got wound forward 40 years.
This world is turning into an utter crock of shit.
I doubt it.Such is the way of the world. Human history is littered with upheaval and societal issues, that those generations thought would result in the end of civilisation etc.
Yes specific civilisations have fallen, but humans haven't. We adapt, we learn, then build arguably better afterwards.
It's just one big pendulum, which is currently sitting to one side of its arc, and it will swing back the other way at some point, with us all learning how to live at each point of that arc.
No idea. Social & family "values" have changed so much in 50 years.
Never truly got to "know" them. Vague ad-hoc memories of the pair of them.
Mother was a high demand concert pianist hardly home. father a grossly overworked GP...hardly saw him really.
Bit of a nasty cnut. Topped himself when I was 19. To, frankly, my relief for us both....him being sectioned in a mental home in Dumfries...and came out worse!
Had a live-in Nanny, expensive toys, and send-away school hollibags etc.
Posh us.....eh? She was ace.
I was actually largely content and happy...it's just the way it was.
Absolutely no problem.Had I known I would have phrased my response differently.
OkayI doubt it.
That made me roll up. Yeah, Face time has been a salvation for us over the recent lockdown. Our Youngest GC female of the species. four bless her heart. "I want to speak to Nana; you can go, dan dad the Girls want to speak." Makes you want to hug em and throttle them at the same. Nice to know you're always inconsequential until someone wants somethingand so it goes on until they all get married, or shack up and produce our beautiful grandchildren. Its at this point that it all makes sense, welcome to the wonderful world of parenting.
Only read half the thread so this may have been mentioned, but have you considered that there's a flip side to what you describe here.Now he isn't a *bad* kid, he's very confident, assertive and social and is popular with his peers (he's been voted class representative by his schoolmates and his teacher pairs him up with new kids in the class to show them the ropes) but this tendency is getting worse.