Reply to my dad doesn't like my kid

Forum Index » Family Relationships

Reply to "my dad doesn't like my kid"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]My parents raised 2 fairly quiet girls, and now we each have high energy but "good" boys. It took a while for my dad to not glare or yell when the kids got "wild". My sister's kids are older than mine and my dad was very gruff for a while with them, because he had a hard time adjusting to the noise and mess.

My sister's now 12 year old son has out grown the wild and cranky little kid stage that happens especially amongst large groups and unfamiliar settings or late at night. He is sweet and polite.

My now 4 yo boy is starting to slowly get better in restaurants or past bed time. My dad has had to get used to these phases, and even with my 4 year old, my dad can take his nature walks because he has finallllly learned that 4 year olds have their own pace, and like to stop to climb boulder or throw rocks into the lake. It's not the quiet qirl relationship like when my sister and I were little, and it took him a few years to accept a different kind of kid.

Give him time, and work with him to the middle ground, like taking those hikes but building in time for climbing and digging. I never thought my dad would turn around like that, but in the time from my nephew to my son, my dad figured it out. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics