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The Kids Are Alright AKA The Parents’ Thread

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DaveT316

Goran Bunjevcevic
Mods, feel free to merge if one already exists, but as I lie awake with the newest addition to the clan - Phoebe Rose - cuddled up on my chest having arrived in a hurry two nights ago, I felt compelled to start this thread.

Parenthood has been a game changer for me. Singularly the worst, the best, the hardest, but ultimately, the most rewarding thing I’ve ever done.

So come on. Where are you? WHERE ARE YOU? Let’s be ‘aving you! I must say I feel slightly delirious and still on a come down from the birth … and precious little sleep over the past few days. But I’d love to connect with and hear from anyone who’s keen to share their experience, whether first hand, or how they’ve been brought up, just any kind of connection to parenting really.

Looking forward to potentially making a bit of a community out of you lot, assuming it doesn’t already exist!
 
DaveT316 said:
Mods, feel free to merge if one already exists, but as I lie awake with the newest addition to the clan - Phoebe Rose - cuddled up on my chest having arrived in a hurry two nights ago, I felt compelled to start this thread.

Parenthood has been a game changer for me. Singularly the worst, the best, the hardest, but ultimately, the most rewarding thing I’ve ever done.

So come on. Where are you? WHERE ARE YOU? Let’s be ‘aving you! I must say I feel slightly delirious and still on a come down from the birth … and precious little sleep over the past few days. But I’d love to connect with and hear from anyone who’s keen to share their experience, whether first hand, or how they’ve been brought up, just any kind of connection to parenting really.

Looking forward to potentially making a bit of a community out of you lot, assuming it doesn’t already exist!
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Amazing and many congratulations!

I have a 19 year old daughter and 32 year old son!
 
Congrats on your new arrival! I have a 14 and a 10 year old, both girls. Dealing with the teenage years is tough, and everyone tells me it's worse when they're girls!
 
Congrats, mate! That sounds lovely. 😊

I have a soon to be 10 year old. He's brilliant. He's a rather anxious shy type, but sharp as a knife, and a big thinker! Keeps on schooling me about planets and stars if I happen to comment on something I think I know. I've never gotten him into Tottenham, even though we went to see us play Palace a couple of years back (last days of Conte, so cant really blame him). He may have dodged a bullet there.

Parenting is really fudging challenging a lot of times, but meaning itself at the same time, and just blissful when he's laughing his ass off from a bad joke I just told. He's the light of my life, for sure.

Now I'm ranting again. I get the love. Enjoy, man, the best feeling in the world taking care of the little one.

Speaking of which, he's shouting at me to come watch Taskmaster with him. 😅
 
treepits said:
Congrats on your new arrival! I have a 14 and a 10 year old, both girls. Dealing with the teenage years is tough, and everyone tells me it's worse when they're girls!
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Yes, we have it all to look forward to. I am, frankly, terrified how we manage technology. And that’s without having even got round to watching Adolescence yet!
 
Daisuk said:
Congrats, mate! That sounds lovely. 😊

I have a soon to be 10 year old. He's brilliant. He's a rather anxious shy type, but sharp as a knife, and a big thinker! Keeps on schooling me about planets and stars if I happen to comment on something I think I know. I've never gotten him into Tottenham, even though we went to see us play Palace a couple of years back (last days of Conte, so cant really blame him). He may have dodged a bullet there.

Parenting is really fudging challenging a lot of times, but meaning itself at the same time, and just blissful when he's laughing his ass off from a bad joke I just told. He's the light of my life, for sure.

Now I'm ranting again. I get the love. Enjoy, man, the best feeling in the world taking care of the little one.

Speaking of which, he's shouting at me to come watch Taskmaster with him. 😅
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What a lovely post. It’s the most beautiful, cosmic, heartbreaking, life affirming thing, isn’t it? Or at least, it can be. I can appreciate for some it can literally be anything.
 
DaveT316 said:
No, second time around this time! Our first - Zachary - is four in two weeks.

I certainly feel a lot more relaxed than last time. I wonder if that’s common?
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I have 3 kids - 20 (boy), 16 (boy) and 12 (girl).

For the oldest we were mostly stressed to fudge, wondering if we were doing everything right. They say there is no manual for being a parent but we had an actual manual and followed it a bit too religiously. By the time the 2nd came along we had realised that we had gone a bit mental on the first. When the 3rd came we couldn't really give a fudge. I guess the lesson is just roll with it. They all turned out great.
 
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Rorschach said:
I have 3 kids - 20 (boy), 16 (boy) and 12 (girl).

For the oldest we were mostly stressed to fudge, wondering if we were doing everything right. They say there is no manual for being a parent but we had an actual manual and followed it a bit too religiously. By the time the 2nd came along we had realised that we had gone a bit mental on the first. When the 3rd came we couldn't really give a fudge. I guess the lesson is just roll with it. They all turned out great.
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First baby you sterilise bottles and dummies, iron the baby clothes etc By the time the third one comes along, if it’s eating out of the cats bowl - it’s the cats problem 😂
 
Parenthood:
I took my son for a full English earlier.
While we were waiting for it to arrive, he opened a packet of sugar and started eating it.
I said, don't eat the sugar, son.
He poured the rest of it on my balding head.
I just found a bit more on my scalp a moment ago and thought of him.
 
Bullet said:
Parenthood:
I took my son for a full English earlier.
While we were waiting for it to arrive, he opened a packet of sugar and started eating it.
I said, don't eat the sugar, son.
He poured the rest of it on my balding head.
I just found a bit more on my scalp a moment ago and thought of him.
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The lesson is quite obviously to always wear a hat at breakfast...
 
Bullet said:
Parenthood:
I took my son for a full English earlier.
While we were waiting for it to arrive, he opened a packet of sugar and started eating it.
I said, don't eat the sugar, son.
He poured the rest of it on my balding head.
I just found a bit more on my scalp a moment ago and thought of him.
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Ahhhh.....so sweet
 
Rorschach said:
Obvious to say but this is a big big problem which is only going to get much worse.
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How have you managed it with your kids? I don't have kids but I am 'tech savvy' (I'm a web developer). All the brick in the world out there waiting for them, to mess with their developing brains makes me feel like I would be a complete dictator with it. But locking them away is logically also not the correct way to do it.
 
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