The Dad Thread - Page 35

O-tacular · #**681** Posted **Jan 8, 2024, 6:25 PM**

Glad to hear you are enjoying being a grandparent MonctonRad.

harls · #**682** Posted **Jan 15, 2024, 6:20 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Growling, deep voice: "the home....of CLASSIC ROOOOCCCKKK!!"
"Time to Get the Lead Out" (of course they will play "Rock and Roll" by Zeppelin).

I love classic rock. It is my favourite genre of music. But dammit there are tens of thousands of good and great songs....not just the standard 10 on rotation.

I never want to hear these songs again (some by fantastic bands):
Hotel California-The Eagles
Carry on my Wayward Son-Kansas
Maggie fucking May-Rod Stewart
Tiny Dancer-Elton John
Don't Stop Believin'-Journey
Rock and Roll-Led Zeppelin
Money-Pink Floyed
Life's Been Good-Joe Walsh
Band on the Fucking Run-Wings
Smoke on the Water-Deep Purple
Here I go Again-Whitesnake
Back in Black-AC/DC
Tom Sawyer-Rush
Bohemian Rhapsody-Queen
Don't fear the Reaper-Blue Oyster Cult
Free Fallin'-Tom Petty
Takin' Care of Business-BTO
Summer of '69-Bryan Fucking Adams
Sweet Child O' Mine-Guns N Roses
Anything by Nickelback

Add this:

• Video Link

Boom 99.7 in Ottawa plays this fucking song every day. I swear the manager there has some kind of agreement with the band.

• Video Link

harls · #**683** Posted **Jan 15, 2024, 6:22 PM**

Also, congrats to Build.it and le calmar. Hope you like poop.

Acajack · #**684** Posted **Jan 15, 2024, 6:27 PM**

Congratulations to all the new and future dads and granddads on here!

kool maudit · #**685** Posted **Jan 15, 2024, 6:28 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Tomorrow is the first day back to preschool.

Preschool is receding so far into the past that it hardly seems real. "You mean I brought her to a place?"

2024 has started on a toddler stomach flu theme. It's a lot like late 2023's regular flu theme, but messier.

Acajack · #**686** Posted **Jan 15, 2024, 6:31 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by McKellarDweller

That’s an impressive amount of effort raising those boys, Forward Looking!
I’m exhausted after only 8.5 months of short interrupted sleeps, wondering how I’ll get through 2024 intact.
I hear it gets easier and relief will come, but I’m in the trench now. About a month ago when I had a particularly difficult week, the phrase “It’s going to work because it has to work.” popped into my mind, and I remind myself of it getting ready in the dark in the morning.

I suppose it does get easier to some degree, but I found it's more a shift in what it is you have to do and worry about, as opposed to the load being progressively taken off your shoulders.

Though I guess it depends what kind of parent you want to be. There are parents who progressively withdraw from and tune out their kids' lives when they are pre-teens and teens.

I never did that.

O-tacular · #**687** Posted **Jan 15, 2024, 6:41 PM**

Anyone else find 4 to be a harder age than 3?

Acajack · #**688** Posted **Jan 15, 2024, 6:43 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Anyone else find 4 to be a harder age than 3?

It was only 15 years ago or so, but if it's any consolation I can't remember back that far in precise detail! So the mental scars aren't permanent, it seems.

harls · #**689** Posted **Jan 15, 2024, 7:02 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Anyone else find 4 to be a harder age than 3?

Amateur. Wait 10 years.

harls · #**690** Posted **Jan 15, 2024, 7:33 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by le calmar

We had two failed IUI attempts and we are doing IVF now. I also have that feeling that things would have been easier if we didn’t wait so long, but anyway. Just hoping that things work out in the end.

Just read this post, le calmar. Man! Double congrats!!

Acajack · #**691** Posted **Jan 15, 2024, 7:39 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by harls

Just read this post, le calmar. Man! Double congrats!!

That's gonna be one long-awaited little shrimp - or squid!

hipster duck · #**692** Posted **Jan 15, 2024, 8:36 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by harls

Amateur. Wait 10 years.

How bad is teenagerdom that parents of preschoolers supposedly have it "good"?

Could it be that it's bad because you're thrown right back into the fire after some relative calm of the golden years (ages 6-10)?

thewave46 · #**693** Posted **Jan 15, 2024, 8:40 PM**

Teens are the age of the wonderful wave of hormones meets undeveloped brain. With enough freedom, responsibility, and risk-taking to get into pretty decent amounts of trouble.

Acajack · #**694** Posted **Jan 15, 2024, 8:41 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by hipster duck

How bad is teenagerdom that parents of preschoolers supposedly have it "good"?

Could it be that it's bad because you're thrown right back into the fire after some relative calm of the golden years (ages 6-10)?

Around 13 they start to have adult-ish argumentative skills and physical size and traits, but without almost any of the experience and wisdom.

What could possibly go wrong?

drew · #**695** Posted **Jan 15, 2024, 8:44 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by hipster duck

How bad is teenagerdom that parents of preschoolers supposedly have it "good"?

I would describe it as "real" problems of the teenage years versus the "inconvenience" of pre-school years.

Potty training, sleeping thru the night, temper tantrums... these all feel so insignificant compared to dealing with a 13 year old boy and 11 year old girl.

harls · #**696** Posted **Jan 15, 2024, 10:51 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by hipster duck

How bad is teenagerdom that parents of preschoolers supposedly have it "good"?

Could it be that it's bad because you're thrown right back into the fire after some relative calm of the golden years (ages 6-10)?

Are you doing a university thesis on daddage? Because I have a few vomit covered stories to share.

O-tacular · #**697** Posted **Jan 15, 2024, 11:56 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by hipster duck

How bad is teenagerdom that parents of preschoolers supposedly have it "good"?

Could it be that it's bad because you're thrown right back into the fire after some relative calm of the golden years (ages 6-10)?

My toddler isn’t neurotypical and presents challenges most parents don’t have to deal with to the same degree (or at all). I do fear what his teen years may have in store too.

Acajack · #**698** Posted **Jan 16, 2024, 1:32 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by drew

I would describe it as "real" problems of the teenage years versus the "inconvenience" of pre-school years.

Potty training, sleeping thru the night, temper tantrums... these all feel so insignificant compared to dealing with a 13 year old boy and 11 year old girl.

Teenage problems are way more likely to have lasting consequences.

kwoldtimer · #**699** Posted **Jan 16, 2024, 2:04 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by harls

Add this:

Boom 99.7 in Ottawa plays this fucking song every day. I swear the manager there has some kind of agreement with the band.

• Video Link

Carole Pope was 20 years ahead of her time. Fabulousness!

McKellarDweller · #**700** Posted **Jan 16, 2024, 7:58 PM**

What a relief that it got up to -8C ish out there today in Calgary and I could walk the little girl to the library play time.
Honestly, that long stretch of -35 to -39C before wind chill and early sunsets was dreadful for parental mental health here.