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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My parents never did fun stuff with us either and I disliked that even as a kid (it was very rare for them to take us on vacations, to the movies, or out to eat and some of that had to do with lack of money but even then they rarely did cheap stuff with us like play board or card games or take us on fun outings like a picnic or a hike etc.). They never helped with big projects. I could tell it was just them being lazy even at the time.

Sometimes I do feel tired and just want to veg but I almost always make the effort to play card games with our kids every night before bed, read with them (even if it's just the five of us sitting around reading on our own together), take them for fun outings on the weekend (skiing, sledding, hiking, biking, swimming, museum,s or even just to the movies or playground). We take our kids out to eat often and take them on lots of vacations. We get into their projects in a "go big or go home" kind of way. They're only young once and for a very short time. I'm trying to soak it up and spend as much quality time with them now as possible.

Plus we actually like our kids. It's fun to do these things with them. Occasionally our parents will offer to watch the kids so we can do a weekend or week away without them and we almost always choose to bring them because we think it's more fun that way.[/quote]

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We're the same and I wouldn't say anything of this has to do with economic fears or some idea that our kids won't do better than we did.

I actually don't worry much about that because we can afford to pay for their educations and give them down payments for their first houses. [/quote]

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