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Originally Posted by Dan D
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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
Thank God they got over Barbie!!!
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LOL
Barbie dolls, being a beautiful princess, doing the ape, and horses, that’s it, basically.
The 2 years old forces me to wear pink Barbie princess paper crowns like her and then we play princess with Barbie dolls and we have imaginary tea parties.
Sometimes I have to put on an ape mask to chase and scare her as an ape which she enjoys a lot. I am very good at doing the ape, actually.
With the 6 years old, who thinks that the saddest thing in the world that can happen, is to be born an ugly princess, I go for pony riding each Saturday morning. Thus, I learn a lot about grooming of ponies and how to saddle them :-)
I took her to the stadium to watch a football/soccer match once. She hates football/soccer. I accepted that. May be, it has to do with the fact, that when she was a baby, I sometimes took her to the pub on week-ends to watch football matches on TV. Once, when I was putting on my football dress again to go playing football with the boys, she asked me: “How comes that you are never on TV with your football team?” How cute, she believes in me. |
That's cool, Dan. Don't give up on the football, she will come around as she gets more time with it. My 18-year olds and I watch NFL football together a lot, they know more about the sport than a lot of boys.
The "things my kid has dragged me into" goes both ways; all my kids share some of my interests, including literature, computer games (they like those anyway, yeah?), type of music (Springsteen, Billy Idol, Blondie), and lifestyle. I'm pretty happy we are very compatible.