Dads - How to do it??

CDfm

Being a Dad is a big deal. Shock and horror.

Now I know there is a parenting forum for the problems but what about the other stuff.

So I will kick off with this.

My first real person moment was when my son was around three. There had been Vaccine day - yes one injection for Dad and one for Junior.But what did it for me was one Friday night and I had rented some movies Fireman Sam for him and Wrestlemania for me.

Now heres the deal. He got to see one Fireman Sam story and then I got to see one wrestleing match when it was over and so on.

And there it was- I popped out of the room for a minute for a cigarette and when I came back he had skipped forward past the theme music onto the next Fireman Sam story and said it was the same story.

It took joined up thought and planning and there it was - his first LIE.

trout

Yeah ... I get outsmarted by my three year old all the time too.

mrs trout says lies at that age are an indicator of intelligence.

I myself am unable to lie well at all ... I can hardly lie straight in bed.

It's a tough one to call ... we're all about the honesty and always be respectful of the truth, but at the same time, you do feel a little proud when they try and alter the facts to suit themselves; that kind of arrogance and neck is required in small doses as they get older.

CDfm

He is also a lot older now and doesn't know if he wants to be a computer nerd or a rockstar. It was a building bloc on a great relationship.

Will

How did ye deal with the sex talk?

My da brought it up in a chipper of all places >.< almost died, i just said stop, i know the facts im grand thanks.

shaywest

i.m.o. the ability to lie is crucial to surviving in this world

CDfm

Will wrote: »

How did ye deal with the sex talk?

The sex talk. Various times.

At Christmas I got him a soldering iron as a stocking filler. It had a big red and yellow sticker on it saying " Always use Protection" so I had stuck a pack of condoms in the stocking too.

Daughters well are different and you have to be tactful.

Will

That is brilliant, and hilarious.

dyl10

trout wrote: »

I can hardly lie straight in bed.

She's not that bad is she?
Waheey!

Hellrazer

CDfm wrote: »

The sex talk. Various times.

At Christmas I got him a soldering iron as a stocking filler. It had a big red and yellow sticker on it saying " Always use Protection" so I had stuck a pack of condoms in the stocking too.

Daughters well are different and you have to be tactful.

Thats brilliant--I got the embarrassed chat one day off my dad when I was around 15 I think.

He was shocked that I knew more than him

Seriously though we had this brilliant Science teacher in secondary who went against the schools charter (militant catholic school where even talk of evolution was disallowed) and thought us everything about sex.

On a more personal level Im going to be open about everything with my lot.Theres going to be no embarassment about sex like it was in my home growing up.We`ve even decided that as soon as we find out one of them is getting to the boyfriend/girlfriend stage they`ll all be supplied with protection--In my oldest daughters case this will be a shotgun packet of condoms everytime she goes out.

It might go against some peoples ideas and say that it encourages them to have sex but in my opinion most of them are at it like rabbits anyway so get them used to Mr Durex early.

tbh

Donegal, this weekend. My 5 year old nephew says "will you write Mrs. tbh is a bum on this piece of paper, then I'll go and show it to her".

I write "please give me a kiss and a cuddle" and give it to him. He tries to stop laughing long enough to keep it together and then he walks over and gives the piece of paper to my wife.

She reads it and says "Ahhhhh! That's so sweet, c'mhere" and gives him a big kiss.

He is outraged. OUTRAGED! "YOU LIED TO ME!!!!!!" he says.

I'm laughing too hard to apologise.

CDfm

Its different for girls. The message is the same really.I am divorced so had to be snappy with it. I just found the stuff kids were taught ridiculous stuff and didn't want to give a men are bastards speech.

A kid will know the science stuff but will also be more concerned about what people think and less sure about what they like.So you can teach the science but emotional maturity comes in time.

So we had about how girls become sluts conversatiion in the car one day.It goes something like at 14 a boy gets spots as a warning he has hormones.Parents with girls hate boys with spots because they are all over the place. His job the hormones tell him is to get his hands down your knickers and probably wont know what to do but ...Anyway after the pawing and mawling he tells all his friends. Thats how girls become sluts..Sperm is infectious and you can catch a baby is what I said.

The sex chats are embarressing all around.

ChewChew

They are classic stories CDfm & TBH, I lolled.

I remember when I was about 12 I found my sisters sanitary towels and my mother walked in a asked me what I was doing so I told her I was curios as to what they were, so she gave me one and marched me down to my dad and told me to ask him. I think he was a million times more embarrassed then I was. LOL. the poor man!

maherro

What about the first time they ever see you drunk?

I remember the first time my dad saw me drunk - my first time drinking! Came in the morning, knocked over a load of stuff, he comes down laughs at me saying you'll learn your lesson with the hangover tomorrow. Hero!

suey71

LOL. This thread is geat.

I have 3 kids under 8 and the Queen is with child again:o. So its all ahead of me. I have the notebook out and am taking notes.
I have a little 5 year old daughter and I am not looking forward to boys knocking at the door.

I guess I'll just have to show them my collection of Martial Arts weapons;).
....And this one, young man, is for castrating horney little gits.:D.

L31mr0d

maherro wrote: »

I remember the first time my dad saw me drunk - my first time drinking!

I remember telling my Dad I was heading over to a friends house to study. Ended up going to a party, drinking loads and fell asleep in the sitting room.

Woke up at around 1am half sober and walked home. When I got to the door my dad was still up. He just said "How was the studying?", I went into the kitchen and we sat down at the table and I proceeded to make up some semi drunk story about what we'd studied... then I went to bed.

Woke up the next morning, went into the bathroom and realized that when I had fallen asleep at the party the lads had put a load of toothpaste into my hair and used permanent markers to draw a handlebar moustache on my face.

How my Dad was able to not laugh or even react while I was sitting there stringing him a line of BS I don't know.

trad

When you have boys you worry, when you have girls you pray.

Khannie

Will wrote: »

How did ye deal with the sex talk?

Jaysus....it was horrible. My youngfella was in 5th class last year and they were getting the sex talk in school from some organisation or other that I thought had a religious angle to it so I decided to give him the talk myself (to avoid any "gay is a sin" type sh*teology). Anyway....it seemed to take forever. Dragged on. Highlight was that it turns out he thought you wore a condom if you wanted to get pregnant. Then....fast forward about 8 weeks later...his mum is up the duff....and I have to go and tell him. It took him about 0.0005 seconds for him to cop on to the implications of what this meant.

Horrors.

CDfm

LOL

My son was around 12 when he dismantled an ink cartridge and I am there trying to bleach ink from his hands before going to dinner with my folks

Me : X what if I told grandma what you did with the ink just before we were going to dinner what would you say

Son : I would tell her I found condoms in your room.

I couldnt recover my composure.

Son 1
Me 0

maherro

CDfm - your son is a hero amongst men!

CDfm

maherro wrote: »

CDfm - your son is a hero amongst men!

Ty. He is good fun.

From Day 1 we had a good relationship and we are friends.

CDfm

Hellrazer wrote: »

On a more personal level Im going to be open about everything with my lot.Theres going to be no embarassment about sex like it was in my home growing up.We`ve even decided that as soon as we find out one of them is getting to the boyfriend/girlfriend stage they`ll all be supplied with protection--In my oldest daughters case this will be a shotgun packet of condoms everytime she goes out.

Very erudite Mr Hellrazer

Tonight we came accross a marauding bunch of Junior Cert Celebrants nonchalantly miniskirting their way out at 6 o clock.

Text sent to her nibs telling her not to imprison an JC guys tonight. Anyway the subject jokingly got around to what were the pregnancy test results like from last year. I nearly swallowed my cigarette when she said 3 at her school.

Now I know why some girls need a Gap year:rolleyes:

Hellrazer

CDfm wrote: »

Very erudite Mr Hellrazer


I nearly swallowed my cigarette when she said 3 at her school.

In my school there was a "pool" run every year as to which of the girls in the class would leave due to pregnancy.

Inter cert year the count was 4.

CDfm

Hellrazer wrote: »

In my school there was a "pool" run every year as to which of the girls in the class would leave due to pregnancy.

Inter cert year the count was 4.

That is sad.

It seems that A intercection B = C is a concept that doesnt get thru.

CDfm

#1 Sons first day in College. It seems like only yesterday he got his first bass guitar.

We are doing dinner later to celebrate.