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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did you have fun parents growing up?  I most definitely did not have fun parents.  By that I mean that my parents didn't go out of their way to plan a fun environment for me (I was an only).  We never ate at kid-friendly restaurants (only went to fancy ones), we never celebrated holidays (Thanksgiving was eating out at a restaurant, that was it), they didn't ever decorate the house for anything, on the weekends they did not spend time with me going to the zoo, museums, etc.--they did yard work outside while I spent my entire weekend inside watching TV.  My house was not kid-friendly either, full of breakables and very sterile-feeling.

I am trying very hard to be a fun parent.  [/quote]
I don’t know if I would say fun. When I hear “fun parents” I think of Amy Poehler’s character from Mean Girls. That said they did plan a lot of activities for us. We went to children’s museums, natural trails, carved pumpkins, made those popcorn chain things, made ice cream, flew kites, made model planes, monitored the stars with a telescope, and all sorts of other stuff. Two things that made it easier was that my mom is just an incredibly active person and my dad was always trying to get us into the kid version of things he was interested in. They also both grew up with parents who worked all. the. time. So maybe it was something that was more important to them? [/quote]

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