Kids and Dads

[DILLIGAF]

This may hit some of you harder than others

5 years old - Dad knows everything!
7 years old - Dad knows.
10 years old - Maybe dad doesn’t know?!
12 years old - Dad doesn’t know.
14 years old - Dads gone crazy!
16 years old - Can’t take dad seriously.
18 years old - What does dad know?!
22 years old - Dads talking rubbish!
24 years old - I know more than dad!
26 years old - Dad seems to know some things after all.
30 years old - Think I should ask dad about this?!
40 years old - It’s amazing how dad went through all this!
45 years old - Dads been right all along.
50 years old - If dad was here, I could have learned a lot.

 

[4Waters]

My son is 12 almost 13, it is spot on.

 

[monkeyswrench]

It's pretty on point. Lost Pops when I was 31, and had really just started to come around to who he really was

My own boys are 15 and 17...it's all pretty "Cat's In The Cradle". Some people don't live or have the same type of experiences with their kids as they had growing up. When I step back and look, it's really scary how much is the same.

 

[Cdog]

Daughters

13 yr old thinks I’m full of shit.

16 yr old went away around 12-13 but is coming back around again..

I don’t chase them around to get their attention like mom does. It is what it is.

 

[RIVERBORN]

Lost mom at 7 and dad at 24…. Hopefully I can break the curse and my boy can go through the years.

 

[monkeyswrench]

Daughters

13 yr old thinks I’m full of shit.

16 yr old went away around 12-13 but is coming back around again..

I don’t chase them around to get their attention like mom does. It is what it is.

My daughter thought I was great...until college. Now she kind of sees me as an uneducated hick...which is pretty accurate. Things just aren't the same. Maybe she'll come around when she's out on her own?

 

[poncho]

Daughters

13 yr old thinks I’m full of shit.

16 yr old went away around 12-13 but is coming back around again..

I don’t chase them around to get their attention like mom does. It is what it is.

Exactly where I am at, she turned 16 New Years Eve. I pulled back the last few years as I was tired of being the only one putting out any effort, lucky to get a thank you for anything.
Recently spent a whole day with her, in the morning we hit every place that might hire a 16 year old with a few after school activities, lunch at Olive Garden (her choice) and 3 hours at the mall buying her clothes that no way Grandma could afford.
I saw smiles I haven't seen in a few years and she was the most talkative she's been in a long time, gave me hope my old Bug might be coming back.

 

[jetboatperformance]

At around 12/13 I learned to stop treating my Son Josh differently then my " mean Oger" of a dad treated me .........and He has become my best friend ever

 

[TeamGreene]

I told all my kids when they were teenagers that the older I got the smarter my dad got.

 

[outboard_256]

I haven't gotten to the part where "Dads been right all along" but fastly approaching "Dads talking rubbish!"

 

[warpt71]

I just turned 40, my dad made a lot of shit happen on his own, and her I am, struggling to figure it out

 

[Todd Mohr]

My dad used to say every year after I turn 18 he gets smarter, turns out he was correct. He also wanted to pay any grand children $1000 when they crash their dad's car.