Everyone's Dad is a reticent grumpy man

Shtanto

I looked this up earlier. It seems all Dads eventually become grumpy and uncommunicative. My Dad is surely the grumpiest of them all. It could be the advancing decrepitude. What I'd like then is a suggestion or two to change the emergent phenomenon of grumpiness. As a practical example, let's say Dad wants a motorbike. The only problem is there are some boxes in the garage. These could be easily cleared. The actual truth of the situation is of course far more complicated, but that's another thread.

The strange thing about grumpy Dad is that it appears to be a global phenomenon. Grumpy Dad gets 23 million results on Google. Surely it should be possible to identify and resolve common factors? I'd say mindfulness would help, but how do you get a perfectly recalcitrant individual to do anything?

MaxWig

Dad's are only grumpy to their children, not other people.

Children are a constant source of pain and disappointment, as well as being a reminder of their own mortality.