Being a parent is hard on a variety of levels.
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Don’t tell me he’s slinging cordano for cash in homeroom now
🤣 No. Never. The short version is kids were picking on him with a lame insult. He texted me about it. It was very, very hard for me to text him back and not provide him with a better comeback. It would have made the situation worse.
Not really, but being a good parent is.
Actually every level all the way to the top floor, and oh the sats that could have been stacked 😂
The whole reason I stack is for them, so the extra sats stacked wouldn't have meant anything without them.
Only kidding, same 🤙
How many kids do you have Derek ?
Two.
As many parents to keep as well.
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Here’s 5k as a LTP gift for them each 🤙
Wow. Thank you. I will absolutely send it to them and let them know it's from a kind friend in Nostr. My daughter won't care all that much right now, but my son will be excited, especially after a tough day today. (The reason I posted the original note in the first place.)
Send him my best, and tell him there’s a wonderful world out there full of amazing stuff. He’s lucky having such a great dad 🤙
Always here if it’s ever stressing you out. We had a helluva ride with bullying issues at school a few years ago. Made my wife very unwell with stress. Hope he’s ok with whatever has been a bad day. It gets better. We have a lovely dog who my girls cuddle after a bad day
Bullying is a real issue for the kids. Cyber especially. 🙏🙏
Yep, and with girls is often worse
My daughter had the same issues. It’s heartbreaking. It does get better with maturity. It’s a nasty world out there sometimes. And it starts at the top, kids that bully have parents that do the same.
Empathy is dying to a degree.
Very true, the parents of the bullies weren’t nice
Parents are just as bad as kids, or worse. The stories my school teacher and school admins tell me are wild. A lot of the time the kids that bully have very hard lives outside of school, so it's hard to be upset with them for their actions.
Cyber bullying is rampant, but also hard for me to grasp fully. You block the person and you don't see it. Boom. Gone. But it's not so much what you see or feel, it's what others see and feel because of it. And I do get that.
With girls it’s an ongoing psychological bullying, which is really unpleasant to watch as a dad.
Exactly. And kids can’t block cyber like adults because they are trapped in a closed environment with school.
Cyber becomes IRL quickly as snickers & behind the back talk happens from what is said on FB or Insta etc.
Very true. My wife is amazing. She just helped a friend whose child was being very nastily bullied online. The social media platform wouldn’t help, and the police lied that they had followed it up. My wife found the culprit through great detective work and the bully is likely to be expelled. Don’t f*ck with my wife 🤙
Sympathies for the devil.
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Just trolling. Enjoy the offspring! I wouldn't wish kids upon anyone who isn't up for the task
We have one of each so we didn't try for a third 🥹
You have three, happy hour twins
I’m in a house of girls, just a male dog and not joking
he skulks off to bed sometimes when it gets too much…. I follow 😂
So true
Resounding yes
The hardest, and the most rewarding.
Shhh the birthrates are too low for this FUD 😂
It's not FUD. Maybe it's just not a complete thought. It may be hard, but it's worth it on so many different levels too. I could never imagine life without them. We may have good days and bad days, but they all turn to good days when I see their faces.
yup. like puking at 2am last night.
You're not a parent until you have your kids puke on you 🤣
I know what you mean. My 2year old sun at a whole peanut an hour ago. Yes, nutshell included. I had to clean up there need over he had puked it out...
Yes it is
Sometimes. Specially when they reach the teen years. Wonderful debates…
I've been a parent for over 30 years. 90% of it is reminding them to do something, the other 10% is driving them places.