Reply to Did you have fun parents growing up?

Forum Index » Family Relationships

Reply to "Did you have fun parents growing up?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  It's interesting how parenting has changed.  Why do you think that is?  My mother is always shocked by how many "fun things" I do with my kids--she's always commenting about it, like "you sure do fun things with him."  All our vacations are kid-friendly, and every weekend we do one or two kid-friendly activities.

My weekends growing up were all about staying in and watching TV.  They never would have attended a family holiday event or taken me to a fair/festival growing up.  It was all about what they wanted to do and I just tagged along.  I really resented this when I was a child.  I was bored a lot and spent a lot of time in my room feeling bored or being bored at fancy restaurants.[/quote]

I don't think anything has changed, at least not in my family.  My parents did tons of "fun things" with me growing up. We did lots of vacations and other activities that, looking back, were clearly about the kids and not at all about my parents (i.e. they would not have chosen to do those activities had they not had kids).  I grew up in Southern California, so maybe it's a regional thing?  Both of my parents were from poor families with strict parents, so they didn't grow up in fun houses at all.  My parents definitely had their own lives (they went on dates, played in a bridge group, and traveled without us), and they also took us to adult places (i.e. fancy restaurants, the ballet), so there was no all-kid or all-adult lifestyle, it was more of a mix.[/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