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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Define fun I guess. I had several siblings so by default life was more centered around kid activities.  When I was young my mom took us to museums, the zoo, concerts, plays, playgrounds, amusement parks.........but I don't actually remember her enjoying it.  Maybe bc she was tracking multiple kids?  She also never played board games or cards with us, which at the time I thought was what a fun mom did. My dad traveled a lot for work, but when he was home he usually stepped in and did stuff with us, but more of the out in the yard running around or willingly taking us on errands (ie the hardware store and letting us ask a million questions vs. mom who errands were about in/out/done.)  We also rarely ate out.  McDonalds was a huge treat. I also remember lots of decorations for holidays and "themed food."  Thinking about this, I suspect he had more to do with her upbringing (raised mostly by "maiden" aunts) vs my dads upbringing on a farm.

All that said, they did have a pretty active social life with lots of friends, and often went on what would now be called date nights but back then were just what parents did. Plenty of parties at the house as well.  [/quote]

This sounds like my family.  I only have one sibling, but a 5 year gap meant my parents had a kid under 5 for 10 years.  We were largely expected to entertain ourselves at home, but we did go on family trips that blended kid and adult interests.  My dad also traveled, so weekends were for family stuff and they refused to be overbooked with kid stuff.  Travel soccer?  Oh, HELL no.

But I was born in 72 and we were pretty solidly middle-middle class in a neighborhood where dads still did yard work and washed cars on weekends.  That lawn wasn’t going to mow itself.  :lol:

We outsource way more than my parents ever did in order to have more time doing fun stuff with our kid.  We are probably still not considered fun parents, because we tend to do educational stuff rather than pure fun — but we have fun together.  [/quote]

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